This comes from that short period where the Internet was meant to be the bonding agent for our global village bright happy future. And it was always portrayed

This comes from that short period where the Internet was meant to be the bonding agent for our global village bright happy future. And it was always portrayed as a solution for arranging meetings for you and your friends or business people on the other side of planet. I think the other idea from these times was abolishing phone numbers and using unified global email-like identifiers. And in a way we got this on social media - some people use same account names everywhere - not mention keybase, and we also have instant messengers on smartphones in our pockets.