EDIT: Enshittification, also known as platform decay, is a process in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to both users and business customers to maximize short-term profits for shareholders.


The peak of software was handing bundles of 3.5” floppies with shareware on it to your buddies, so probably closer to 1993 than 2013.