When I was a kid, the Internet, and all that goes with it, didn’t exist in its present form. Things like e-mail were isolated to universities, corporations, and government, where people resided on what we would call Intranets today. Social media was almost non-existent.
As a teenager, home computers started to become a thing, and with them, people began to communicate with each other with their computers via modems. Soon, there were Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) that became hubs for socializing. One could play games against other people, post messages, and download files. However, most BBSses only had a single telephone line, so the only time one could chat live with someone was with the host of the BBS. Since those days, everything has changed, but the one thing that has changed the most is how people treat each other.
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