This post seems so weird to me. Coming from a generation on the internet in the late 90's. > Back in the 2000's and early 2010's 4chan was one of those super n

This post seems so weird to me. Coming from a generation on the internet in the late 90's. > Back in the 2000's and early 2010's 4chan was one of those super nerdy silly kinda dumb underground things that you didn't really talk about in public because it would be cringe worthy. > And then you had reddit also which at that time had many subreddits where you could post anything including 4chan stuff. I remember people on reddit back then complaining that reddit was for people too scared to go to 4chan. > All these things were not supposed to change the "real world." > The internet was just this place where nerdy people could go to post silly shit. What the hell happnened? Social media was IRC and Hotline(Mac) and Usenet. The 4chan was Usenets' Alt. hierarchy. Not anything you used a web browser for. Browsers were for surfing the World Wide Web, for finding personal and small business "homepage"'s and sharing information. Hotline and alt.binaries.* for "filez" or other "-z"'s. Public IRC for chats, but also whatever the reddit comment section is. Newsgroup readers for forum like things; except the newsgroup Alt hierarchy (other than .binaries), that was for things 4chan took over;one of those super nerdy silly kinda dumb underground things that you didn't really talk about in public because it would be cringe worthy. It was never suppose to make it on to the "real" internet, or change the "real world". (easy accessible things like 4chan) The internet was for nerdy people to have their own corner of this newly connected world, where businesses could put their information for easier access than the yellow pages. A place to share your nerdy eclectic area of knowledge for others like you to find. What the hell happened?