I'm just about this person's age and my career has pretty much been entwined with the web since the very beginning (I started right around '93). I don't necessarily see it the way this person does. I don't think op groks how many more people are on-line now (including the web), how much it has grown, in multiple dimensions. I feel like we had our time to exert an outsize influence on it, and we did what we did, for good or ill.