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Five elements can be identified as shaping the development of the internet in its first years, from the early 1990s until around 2005, that continue to frame our understanding of digital platforms and of the questions surrounding their governance and regulation: the influence of free market economics; theories of the ‘new economy’ and knowledge-based systems; the primacy of freedom of speech; communitarianism; and romanticism and the counterculture.