> We were lucky to grow up in an era where the online communities were nice and mostly welcoming places.
For real. It was a different time. Sure there were some assholes, but it seemed like a lot fewer. The tech was jankier then and you kinda needed help from others now and again, so it probably behooved you to not be a dick. That and the community was just smaller, and there were fewer of them, so burning a bridge didn’t mean there’d be another to replace it.
I would probably be doing something entirely different for a living if it weren’t for the late 90s BBS community.
For real. It was a different time. Sure there were some assholes, but it seemed like a lot fewer. The tech was jankier then and you kinda needed help from others now and again, so it probably behooved you to not be a dick. That and the community was just smaller, and there were fewer of them, so burning a bridge didn’t mean there’d be another to replace it.
I would probably be doing something entirely different for a living if it weren’t for the late 90s BBS community.