The Missing Link Series“Before the internet became a marketplace, it was a wilderness of pure signal.”In the beginning, the internet was open, weird, and wild.No loginsNo cookiesNo real namesJust websites, forums, archives, and hyperlinksWeb1 was the read-only era—a digital library where individuals published and others consumed. It offered freedom of information, but no ownership, no interactivity, and no coherence. It was magic. But it was early.🔹 The Dot-Com Dream… and CrashThe 1990s saw ...