Hasn't the internet always been stuffed to the gills with con artists? At least, since the "Eternal September"? Isn't it surreal how quickly society snapped fr

Hasn't the internet always been stuffed to the gills with con artists? At least, since the "Eternal September"? Isn't it surreal how quickly society snapped from, "never tell anyone your real name or where you live, never try anything that people tell you to do without independently verifying the advice first" to actively encouraging oversharing? It feels odd to say this considering how nihilistic and distrustful the current zeitgeist is, but does anyone else get the feeling that many people who came online in the past decade or so are way too credulous and never received the cautions and warnings that we used to give new users as a matter of course? I don't think it's limited to older generations.