From Walled Gardens to World Grid: A Short History of How We Centralized the Internet

The internet began decentralized, designed to survive disruption. Over decades, it centralized into walled gardens and fragile empires. Yet seeds of resistance—open source, peer-to-peer, Bitcoin, IPFS—show the web’s DNA was always meant to be free. This prequel traces the path from bazaar to World Grid, setting the stage for a decentralized future.