You may also be just the right age to have had access to an internet less dominated by doomscrolling and bullying.

I think there was a ton of bullying depending on what part of the internet you spent your time in, but importantly it was very easy to find inclusive, safe spaces.

Today, it is not as easy. This is probably part of why so many have moved to group chats and direct messages for online interaction in recent years.

Someone’s never been on 1998 hacker IRC.