There was all the same things we have now. But back then, being toxic was acceptable and when it went too far, admins came down with a ban hammer. Unlike back t

There was all the same things we have now. But back then, being toxic was acceptable and when it went too far, admins came down with a ban hammer. Unlike back then, those banned people wouldn’t run away to some other place and cry out about how unfair the world is, especially that place they just got banned from. Mostly because there wasn’t “another place.” The “innocence” wasn’t as innocent as you remember. The only reason it wasn’t monetized was because global payment systems weren’t really a thing yet. People sold things online anyway, it was just riskier than it is today. Today you can absolve your risk in a 2,5% + €0.30 flat rate, thanks to those trail-blazers of yesteryear. Then people fixed bugs, and saw their sales decline. So they unfixed those bugs and consumers called them “dark patterns.” Some people started doing it on purpose, after hearing about fixing those bugs and what they did to sales. Back then wasn’t so great. VR won’t be so great either. At least until we figure out how to spend more than a few hours in it, comfortably. Then it might get better.