You know you want to read a paper with "Feudal Internet" in the title (and a cameo of @tomjennings Not The Internet, but This Internet: How Othernets Illuminate Our Feudal Internet. It draws on the history of computer networks to analyze how the technical features interact with and shape the social and economic structures of wide area networks.https://tidsskrift.dk/ashcc/article/download/21200/18686/48329#internet #retrocomputing