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Re:Why Real Life is better than IRC (2000) by idiotsecant on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @12:13AM (#46612587)
The internet of 2025 isn't the same thing at all. The early internet was a toy - a place for deviants and weirdos to do weird deviant things (and it was glorious). The rest of humanity found it and turned it into a mirror of the real world. That doesn't make it bad, in some ways it makes it better, in some ways worse, just definitely different.
Re:Why Real Life is better than IRC (2000) by anthk on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @12:17PM (#46618860)
Early internet was just a world of academics, scientists, engineers and maybe on the very early web and IRC, journalists.