It wasn’t though. It was slow and didn’t really work properly and didn’t work on phones. The underlying technology is vastly improved.

What’s gone wrong is businesses, but that’s got nothing to do with the internet that’s just capitalism fulfilling it’s inevitable conclusion of charging for everything and letting you own nothing.

There needs to be a law that says that once a customer buys something online (e.g a movie on Netflix or a game on Steam) the company must compensate then if their access to that thing is lost due to licencing changes. They can prevent new people from gaining access to the content but they cannot revoke access to people who have already paid money.