I joined the SA forums when I was 10. I think it did more to mold my personality, sense of humor, and how I view the internet than anything else in my life. I w

I joined the SA forums when I was 10. I think it did more to mold my personality, sense of humor, and how I view the internet than anything else in my life. I was exposed to things I had no right knowing (it's a wedding band). I'm thankful. I haven't kept up over the years. This feels eerily like a scene from Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Things I saw first on SA: - Micro transactions - Paid membership for content - Fail whale (2000 -> 5000 concurrent users) - Image macros - Let's play videos - Moderation policies on racism, etc. way before anything else on the internet self-moderated content at this level - Libertarian white men in engineering and technology - Social justice warriors Some of these aren't unique, but we're talking early, early 2000s for many of these things.