I don’t want to sound like an old smart ass but I’m regularly grateful how the tech community evolved; the article mentions it too, it was _really_ bad. The use

I don’t want to sound like an old smart ass but I’m regularly grateful how the tech community evolved; the article mentions it too, it was _really_ bad. The usenet of the 90’s and early 2000’s was a fierce battle zone and newbie chip pan. Nowadays community leaders refuse to tolerate assholes (<http://jacobian.org/writing/assholes/> http://jacobian.org/writing/assholes/>) – back then they more often than not acted like those. I wouldn’t have thought back then that we’d come ever so far. Not that we arrived yet…