[idiotsecant]

The internet of 2025 isn't the same thing at all. The early internet was a toy - a place for deviants and weirdos to do weird deviant things (and it was glorious). The rest of humanity found it and turned it into a mirror of the real world. That doesn't make it bad, in some ways it makes it better, in some ways worse, just definitely different.

[anthk]

Early internet was just a world of academics, scientists, engineers and maybe on the very early web and IRC, journalists.