>Meanwhile, the internet in those days was small and populated mostly by smart and interesting people gathered in small-to-medium sized phpBB servers. The hurd

>Meanwhile, the internet in those days was small and populated mostly by smart and interesting people gathered in small-to-medium sized phpBB servers. The hurdle to get online kept a lot of people offline. The hurdle to get online and post is so, so low nowadays that most of the Internet is just garbage. I'm not saying there aren't gems out there. Just that "bad" has gotten more prevalent because creating has become so easy.