Don’t worry, you’ll be able to rent your life needs with a subscription plan that will be only slightly unaffordable.

Yes! That’s the phenomenon I was thinking about. The never ending influx of stupidity.

I was playing with several local BBSs back in the early 90s (Fidonet!!) but got on the internet around '93. It was a much more fun place to be. Definitely not corporate. For me, I’d say the inflection point was when AOL let its users loose with web access. The never ending fall. There was a natural selection typ filter in getting on-line before then - you have to have technical know-how or be in a university where access was provided. Usenet and IRC were awesome. I seriously miss the feel of it.

Every once in a while, I come across someone who makes me jealous.

The Lynx browser is surprisingly nice.