>>82758682
I first entered a chatroom in 1996 as a child through compuserve, eventually AOL dial up internet.
Most of you do not understand and will never understand that early internet groups were like. I don't use the word community. It is a misnomer. A community is a number of people living in close proximity whose labors both socially and economically are intertwined such that they have a shared stake both practically as well as geographically. It is reinforced by being of a shared ethnic cohort and having similar dispositions. There aren't many communities left in industrialized populations much less internet groups (but I would concede there are some)

Another life experience some of you might know but many of you don't is the general vibe of people you meet "on vacation" - particularly in outdoor activities (camping / hiking). It's worth noting that these excursion groups (in my American, earlier, experiences) were overwhelmingly White.

The early internet was a collection of middleclass+ White people with the demeanor of being on a fun excursion. Strangers were (far more) polite and eager to talk to one another. "Trolling" wasn't even a word that had entered into the common lexicon. As a precocious child I, for a time, had a variety of friends from a myriad of backgrounds. My first long time gaming friend was a graduate student at Oxford. I miss his friendship and regret not being able to better appreciate the influence of a mentor.

Humans were never meant to be lumped into indiscriminate masses of free interaction. The statement grates at my libertarian fantasy freedom obsessed tendencies but it remains true. Geographical barriers and travel/migration difficulties reinforced the sorts of filters that would funnel people into communities.

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>>511116687
Jeets and other forms of brownoids inflated their ^^ egos on social media.

>>507859512
Based.
I miss the times when tech was too expensive for shitskins to afford to flood the internet. Literal subhumans.