I’ve been wondering about “mid phase” internet a bit recently. The time where it opened up to “nerdy” people, after tech professionals, and before general masse

I’ve been wondering about “mid phase” internet a bit recently. The time where it opened up to “nerdy” people, after tech professionals, and before general masses. There was a pushback against the internet being serious business. All someone has to do was turn off the computer and it all went away. Could it be that even back then it was somehow known what would happen with the influencer marketing engagement stuff that is a known problem now? Unwarranted self importance? Superman vs Goku and Star Trek vs Star Wars as training in not only how to leverage conflict for engagement (or your personal internet points) but also in how to see through it as being bait? That if you let the general masses make the internet real life then you open pandora bawks? Not sure that’s why it’s all questions. My awareness of TRP MRA ETC was only after internet feminists started complaining about it loudly, for whatever that’s worth. As a tangent: how often do we rediscover what the ancients already knew? Can anything survive touching the general masses?