The future of the internet will be determined in one building in Washington, DC — and for six weeks, I watched it unfold. On the first day of the Google trial, a sign with a comically contorted arrow directed visitors toward their chosen antitrust case. At the Meta trial, Boasberg appeared even-keeled — sometimes to the point of boredom. But those weeks of courthouse testimony helped illuminate countless decisions that made the tech world as we know it. With the context of the Google trial, that fear looks prescient — the company cemented its search dominance by making Android phone makers preinstall its search engine in the same way.