Something Awful: Where Internet Culture Meets
There was more civil discourse because you had to basically have a certain level of intelligence to be on [the web]. People respected people more, and it just seems like the easier it is for people to get on, the less rational and civil discourse there is. I think it’s great for everybody to communicate and I definitely think that people should be able to communicate and say what they want to say but the flip side of the coin is that a lot of people have really, really weird and stupid opinions, myself included.
Motherboard has published an interesting article on the history of the Something Awful website. A site were a lot of the internet culture has originated. But also a site that saw many of its population leave at the end of the 00’s. Just like all the other forums on the web. Which was a combination of changes: age, lives and sites like Twitter & Facebook etc.