[echelon]

The internet until around the time of Facebook felt magically obscure.

Sure, lots of people were using it. But many of them couldn't openly advertise their feelings or form social groups. It was a domain of the technical and the young.

There won't be anything else like that feeling.

[senko]

> The internet until around the time of Facebook felt magically obscure. [...] There won't be anything else like that feeling.

The name for that feeling is Eternal September: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

(note that happened around two decades before FB)

[saulpw]

*one decade