The Internet existed before 2000. It also existed before the World Wide Web was created in 1993. And so on, and so on. Each generation influences the next, but

The Internet existed before 2000. It also existed before the World Wide Web was created in 1993. And so on, and so on. Each generation influences the next, but after a couple of generations have gone by, the newest generation comes to think of the one directly before theirs as "the original". I say that as someone who was on Usenet in the late 80s/early 90s as a teen, and that was when that particular corner of the Internet was in decline. All 4Chan has managed to do is recycle the same level of inanity that permeated the Usenet and BBS spaces before it. You are "standing by" a rehash of a rehash of a rehash.