The internet has become a nightmare. In the 80s and 90s, it was supposed to deliver information equality and social utopia, yet presently, the internet is used as a tool in cyber warfare, the ethereal fifth domain of conflict. Did you really want to talk about the war? Dark new fantasies and ideas about the internet — with the puppet strings that stretch from the Kremlin to Beijing to Palo Alto — are often just as ridiculous as the sunny visions they attempt to replace. Venture capitalists eagerly invested in social media without regard to how your identity would be used and abused or impact future national defense. Worldwide hacker communities' culture shifted as they dissolved with the adoption of internet users everywhere, every house and person nearly has a mobile phone now. We are now stuck in a paradigm of multiple gaps. Let’s explore alternative strategies – and add a shape to return to what was supposed to be.