It has changed quite a lot. /b/ was once fun. The news board that turned into /pol/ had leftists genuinely defending their honor in regular debates on every issue and it wasnt full of 1-sentence loaded question fallacy threads ("Why are men giving up?", "why is drumpf trying to destroy the economy?", and so on) and straight up demoralization. There was a negligible number of LARPagans, indians, and trannies (who were generally refered to as crossdressers or transvestites at the time), natsoc had not yet fully taken a foothold- it was still the cutting edge of edgy- and the word "incel" hadn't even been invented yet; the term was "kissless virgin", and somehow, not one legacy MSM news outlet anchor ever once uttered the phrase "kissless virgin", because in terms of 4chan involvement glowies mostly went after actual crazies and sex criminals instead of rotating feverishly perpetual 24/7 wide-umbrella psy-ops of questionable import and dignity i.e. dragging the the most powerful government in the world into petty and needless meme wars that it can (and does occasionally) actually lose against basement dwellers.