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> chat networks I think you may be looking at history through rose-tinted glasses. Sure, social media today is not the same, so the comparison isn’t quite sens
by lo_zamoyski 11mo ago
> chat networks
I think you may be looking at history through rose-tinted glasses. Sure, social media today is not the same, so the comparison isn’t quite sensible, but IRC was an unpleasant place full of petty egos and nasty people.
- hulitu 11mo ago> but IRC was an unpleasant place full of petty egos and nasty people. One should take a look at HN. /s I find the discussions on the early Internet (until around 2010) more civilised than today. Today, the internet is fully weaponized by and for big companies and 3 letter agencies.