I still capitalize Internet, also
Between getting the new book done and moving to the Ghost platform and deciding to go with Bluesky as an alternative to that other one, I've had the opportunity to take a walking tour of what's happening to the Web as the the world twists itself into new and interesting knots.
My current fixation is what I, as an old person, see as a scion of the zine. Given some of the trends I described in About Five Years* – and, it must be said, in stark disproof of others – this semi-underground of fundamentally human, thoughtful, still very Web-aware publications that are bucking the rotten model of print content commercialization.
I'm by no means an expert in whatever this trend is; however I can tell you that Bellingcat's Telegram feed and 404 Media's newsletter are my new way of being told things – in an era where I really don't want to hear anything called "news" by people who are actually in the ads business.
What's my point? As someone who's been watching the Internet for several decades, helping it along in my own very small way, I am actually a little bit optimistic about how the post-social-media Web might look.
*still available.