[username223]

> blogs weren't a place to promote yourself and your side hustle. Blogs were personal diaries. We didn't have the same concept of OPSEC back in the early 2000's

OPSEC has nothing to do with it. People used pseudonyms by default in the 1990s, and blocked Doubleclick (a.k.a. Google) in their ~/.hosts files. Blogs were non-commercial places where we worked out ideas and offered useful information.

[SoftTalker]

Lots of people used real names on Usenet at least into the 1990s. It probably changed with eternal September.

[theshrike79]

A quarter century old Usenet posts are pretty much the only non-work related place where my name exists on the Internet. There are a few stragglers, but not many any more.