The early Internet was an infinite, limitless land of opportunities, a life-changing experience that enlightened the people who found and embraced it and transported them into a global, borderless society built around cooperation and free knowledge. Today’s Internet is entirely different, designed to treat people as economic factors and to enclose them into walled gardens and for-profit platforms. The first global digital environment in human history was gradually torn into pieces, fragmenting along multiple national, regulatory, and commercial lines. How could such a dramatic change ever happen, and can we break the barriers and empower future generations with the possibilities we lost?