Comment by agumonkey

Computing becoming infrastructure does indeed changes things. Before the web your computer was just a side gig, a purely fun driven, consequence-less thing. It was mostly static, you bought the thing, the software (or hacked the shareware :) and that's it, nothing on your mind, you booted MSDOS without ever thinking about your password. Now it's part of the socio-economic ocean.. what you use changes due to market dynamics or policies.. obligations, privacy, security. It's obviously a different world.

Reminds me of articles on early amateur radio. It was free-spirited, until society decided it wasn't and now you need licences and it's a business first toy.