Tangent: the way the author talks about sites like Reddit and 4chan and certain personalities as elements from a type of internet "hey day" makes me feel....old

Tangent: the way the author talks about sites like Reddit and 4chan and certain personalities as elements from a type of internet "hey day" makes me feel....old. I recall reading Atwood's piece in 2007 like it was yesterday, even though it was a decade ago now in actual time-passed. Only brought up because I've felt similarly disillusioned with my participation in tech lately, but I wonder if that's just due to growing older and shifting priorities, assumptions and expectations of this sector of civilization.