You gotta understand their angle... ... in the early days of the internet ... ... comments could be very, very long; the user was given a virtual unbounded ba

You gotta understand their angle... ... in the early days of the internet ... ... comments could be very, very long; the user was given a virtual unbounded battleground to fight their ideological battles ... ... The public, the rabble, couldn't stop.. The words kept coming; a torrent of consonants and vowels descending upon our eye ba ... (limit exceeded) ... lls like an avalanche of ideas ... ... it was too much and twitter was borne ... ... the people keep their ideas small, like their tiny brains, and non-existent attention spans ... P.S. I was gonna write this as a comment chain, but HackerNews, in all their wisdom, limits self-replies to only one