It resulted in the Web suddenly becoming open, and full of ill-informed opinions, and populated by large crowds of ignorant, obnoxious, know-nothing users, wearing cargo shorts, Hawai'ian shirts, and socks and sandals, wandering around, pawing all the exhibits.
The September That Never Ended was Good.
That's when the real money started to hit the Internet.
All those Teslas that average-level programmers are driving around, these days, are because of all those "tourists," and their loud shirts.
No, it always had tons of ill-informed opinions and obnoxious users. The difference is that people were able to put it in perspective.
It was just the "exotic" opinion of some anonymous user on the internet you will very likely never meet in real life. Crazy and colorful opinions made a lot of places interesting in the first place, meeting people completely different from yourself or similar to you in ways you could't or didn't want to share with close friends.
The demand that everything wrong should be purged from the internet is fairly recent. Today users demand conformity like they demand it from their TV and newspaper.
Same (not SV, average programmer), but I am paid well enough now. But it took 15-20 years to catch up to my SV friends. And only because I now work for a SV HQ'd company.
It resulted in the Web suddenly becoming open, and full of ill-informed opinions, and populated by large crowds of ignorant, obnoxious, know-nothing users, wearing cargo shorts, Hawai'ian shirts, and socks and sandals, wandering around, pawing all the exhibits.
The September That Never Ended was Good.
That's when the real money started to hit the Internet.
All those Teslas that average-level programmers are driving around, these days, are because of all those "tourists," and their loud shirts.