One thing I will say, the Internet deeply and dramatically changed my perspective on the global community and connectivity in general.
When I got my ham license (DE K2KD) at age ~11, the idea of picking up a microphone or tapping on a morse key or using a computer with RTTY to talk to someone on the other side of the world was mind-blowing. "Mom, I'm talking to someone in Australia! I'm talking to someone in Nigeria!".
Now we block entire IP ranges because they send too much spam or because we think the traffic from an entire country has a high fraud rate.
Easy come easy go. Sigh.
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