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Arnold King: It's been 25 years since he formed his first impressions of the Internet. He says the 1990s vision of the Web was that it would shift the balance of power away from large organizations. King: The masses came to the Internet, were less technically savvy and less able to handle uncensored content in a mature way. The winner-take-all mentality took over, and Facebook epitomizes the new trend, he says. The idea of a “dumb network” of fully distributed computing gave way to caching servers and server farms.