Good thing to do?
Maybe they did it deliberately?
Strikes me as a good thing to do. The Internet only started less than 30 years ago, and human kind and everything else on this planet had existed perfectly well without it for thousands of years...........
Shakespeare didn't need it, neither did da Vinci, and the Victorian engineers achieved rather a lot without it.
All those traders at the Cape seemed to do quite well for hundreds of years without it.
My garden would be in better condition if it didn't exist.