>>13191069It's been dead a long time. here's an example.
>tl;dr unironically sites like 4chan and gaiaonline killed the internet as you knew it all the way back in '03.back when message boards had RPG stats, late 90's early 00's you posted for XP and items n shit
could make an avatar and it was all based off posting in message boards.
you could fight one another with your 'character' you built by posting.
this was back when people made sweet avatars and signatures nd the era of shockwave/flash shit.
you had all sorts of msg boards, sites for games, music, movies, code, robots, animation, ect.
these were tiny tightknit communities, specialists in their fields, they had great discussions because low moderation
people had a home on the internet, somewhere where they went everyday, a home base. a user-base
well those tiny forums and groups died out. tons of people scrambled to all sorts of different message and image boards.
things like that one gaiaonline site took a ton of traffic from the RPG based ones
4chan took a bunch of people, various group messaging sites took a chunk.
people never found a home on the internet after that.
I remember this all vividly, this was in 03.. a culling of message boards and communication platforms.
people even talked about it on 4chan, gaiaonline, and remnants
we all discussed why did x and y site go down. and how the internet was no longer as it was.
there was a hilarious theory back then. basically all your base are belong to us, was a message from the elders saying
we killed your internet now all your user-base belong to us. unironically. that's exactly what happened.
