The year the internet changed nothing.

Remember when Howard Dean's campaign raised all that money on the internet(s) and fired all his volunteers up with his decentralized campaign, which drove him to the Democratic nomination, then to the Presidency?

Remember when activist websites like Moveon, America Coming Together and Daily Kos organized and motivated people from across the country to give their time and money so that they could drive a crushing electoral defeat to the dark forces of fear?

Remember the tear in your eye when Joe Trippi, having declared the internet(s) democracy's "killer app," was appointed head of the DNC, so that he could integrate his vision further into the mainstream?

Neither do I.