But more than a year has passed -- at least a generation in Internet time -- since Netscape, the weakened Internet software company, was acquired by America Online, leading to an exodus of top executives and programmers.
It says the assembly is deeply worried by the fact that intelligence agencies have deliberately weakened internet security by creating back doors and systematically exploiting weakness in security standards and implementation.
As the year wore on, operating problems increased, especially as the market weakened for Internet advertising.
Paradoxically, the recent failures among the entertainment sites may have enhanced rather than weakened the Internet's lure for young filmmakers.
First, the NSA's actions may have weakened overall internet security, on which billions of people rely for banking and payments, with backdoors that can be exploited by criminals, not just intelligence agencies.
The reforms do not mention pulling back the NSA's ongoing efforts to weaken overall internet security, such a demanding companies provide them with backdoors to bypass encryption.
They also say that if net neutrality is weakened and Internet providers are allowed to charge companies to speed up their traffic, it will lead to higher costs being passed on to consumers -- which could have a disproportionate effect on minorities, many of whom already struggle to afford basic broadband connections.
It may be that these voting records will come back to haunt the Senators in question; the Chairman's plan to reverse 2015's Open Internet Order and weaken net neutrality rules is a deeply unpopular one.
But the evolving competition, combined with the weakening market for Internet stock offerings, forced the company to delay its plans by a week and scale back its ambitions.
"It could seriously weaken the growing Internet economy and take jobs away from folks working for small Web companies".
