2008 was when it all kicked off. The Obama presidential campaign got everyone onto their new iPhones with Facebook and Twitter replacing the MySpace and Bebo of before for normies.
Ten years later message boards and IRC would be mostly gone for the common internet user. Replaced with Reddit and Discord.
Change and Hope turned quickly to stagnation and unhappiness. Individualism shunned for collective lying and mockery of those not taking part.
2010 was a better time to be on the Internet.
Pre-smartphone internet had a built in NPC-filter that vanished as soon as the right apps were deployed on iPhone
2008 was when it all kicked off. The Obama presidential campaign got everyone onto their new iPhones with Facebook and Twitter replacing the MySpace and Bebo of before for normies.
Ten years later message boards and IRC would be mostly gone for the common internet user. Replaced with Reddit and Discord.
Change and Hope turned quickly to stagnation and unhappiness. Individualism shunned for collective lying and mockery of those not taking part.
BBS ignored for that BBC.
I blame Maddox for the whole lot.
You're going to have to elaborate on that one.
He brought out his website around the year 2000 and just added large scale accessible drama to the Internet when there was none before.
Some liked it, some didn't but it was now there.
Someone had to do it, and so he takes the biscuit even though is could have been someone better or worse to have done it instead.