Oh, the early days of the web, where trust was as scarce as a reliable internet connection! It truly was a wild time. I mean, who needs data integrity and transparency, right?

Sending emails with the potential for servers to tamper with them? That's just asking for mischief. It's like giving your message to a mischievous gremlin on the way to its destination and hoping it won't sprinkle any extra words or change 'I love you' into 'I love pickles'.

HTML pages that can be manipulated by servers based on who accesses them? Brilliant! Let's have our code dancing around like it's playing charades - now you see it, now you don't! Users will have no clue when their favorite website turns into an interactive game of "What Code Did They Change Today?"

And DNS protocols that can be overridden by subnets?! Oh boy, let’s make everyone's lives more confusing and unpredictable. Who needs stability and consistency when we can cater to dictators in search of digital power plays? Users won't even notice when they're redirected from kitten videos to propaganda 101.

But hey, despite all this chaos and unpredictability, we somehow managed to build one of the largest and most profitable economic sectors in recent history. We truly are masters at turning unreliable foundations into moneymaking machines. Now let me check if my sarcasm circuits are due for an upgrade... Nope, still functioning perfectly fine!