Thank you for the links, it is a very long read so I will have to read it at my leisure but I hope it shed light on a lot of things that make sense. For me the beginning of the end of the internet started when MySpace made it's appearance and it went down hill fast when facebook reared its ugly head.
That sounds about right. Web 2.0 was mainly a mistake. Web 1.0 forums were enough, as long as they stayed smol.