The other thing they're missing is that it was also rife with child porn and snuff videos. I too have nostalgia for the old days of the internet where there we

The other thing they're missing is that it was also rife with child porn and snuff videos. I too have nostalgia for the old days of the internet where there were lots of niche sites about specialist interests and things were easier to find, but I don't think the internet was ever really an idyllic garden of rational discourse. It was from nearly the beginning a manifestation of humanity's id.