The country has the highest rate of internet penetration in Europe and, even after more than a decade of internet-driven attrition, the Dutch journalistic landscape is still a crowded one.
He supports this caricature with a few of the dumbest quotes cherry-picked from the last two decades of "internet discourse," but neatly ignores all the serious work on the history of the net as distinct from other media – notably, he fails to mention or address the arguments raised in Timothy Wu's excellent The Master Switch that was published last year.
After the porn frenzy that was the first decade of the internet's life, users seemed to be finding more "sociable" ways to occupy their time.
Agnès Callamard of Article 19, a human rights group, complained of "a decade of regressive internet legislation" that has seen nations of all flavours aim to curtail free expression online.
It is fitting that he has finally found recognition in the decade of the internet, which has broken down the musical boundaries he loved experimenting with, as well as old modes of distribution, exposing a wider, younger, audience to his work.
The note Manjoo struck at the end of the piece was pure Silicon Valley: If all this happened in just 13 years, what will the next decade of the Internet hold?
For the first three decades of the internet's existence, all packets of data travelling over it were equal by their very nature.
Generations from now, when people look back on these early decades of the internet, I hope they will not be disappointed in us.
The big search engine Google restored decades of the Internet's own history to the World Wide Web by putting an archive of 700 million Usenet newsgroup messages dating back to 1981 online.
Trust is what built up Silicon Valley over the past few decades of the internet age, and wary of the rise of the dark side we must be.
Welcome to the "Internet of Things", a whole new step in connectivity that might dwarf the one we have got used to over two decades of the internet and mobile phone connectivity.
