Glink
presents “The Golden Age of the Internet Is Over”.
The golden
age lasted between about 1999 and 2009, and maybe reached its nadir in 2007.
Myspace, the
film says, allowed more creativity (an anonymity) than Facebook does today.
Facebook
emphasized using real identities and social connections, rather than just
content publishing.
The Internet
became corporatized. Remember the days of the dot-com boom and bust?
He covers
the censorship and sensitivity to mobs and cancel-culture (and vulnerable to
left-wing tactics) as a natural result of too much consolidation and not enough
competition, like there used to be.
At the end,
Glink sings and performs and Internet song and tastefully shows himself
off. I believe I have seen him in DC
before (but the film seems to be shot in Arizona and probably California
judging from outdoor shots). This short
film (26 minutes) gets 5 stars. He
should enter it into DC Shorts (film festival every fall).
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