Agreed. And there were plenty of ugly aspects to early Internet (and BBS etc) culture. And it was much smaller and in some ways even kind of claustrophobic compared to now.
My teens extract their own content from it. What's more curious about today is that it's not "The Internet" that is the focus -- it's so ubiquitous and not-novel that it's just a fact/part of life and blurs in with just daily socializing and consumption. Almost mundane.
My teens extract their own content from it. What's more curious about today is that it's not "The Internet" that is the focus -- it's so ubiquitous and not-novel that it's just a fact/part of life and blurs in with just daily socializing and consumption. Almost mundane.