The thought of "original internet equality" brought me back to the days where you would land on obscure forums via a search engine, and you would find posts by

The thought of "original internet equality" brought me back to the days where you would land on obscure forums via a search engine, and you would find posts by accounts like "str_master", "jsmith", "quizboy". The most you could discriminate them by was their number of posts on that forum, moderator privileges etc.