Wasn't the past world of BBS, NNTP, IRC just nice? No. It was just tiny and very non-uniformly sampled so you didn't notice where it was heading as easily. E.g

Wasn't the past world of BBS, NNTP, IRC just nice? No. It was just tiny and very non-uniformly sampled so you didn't notice where it was heading as easily. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serdar_Argic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serdar_Argic