You could just speak your mind openly and always write your real name to it, and it was THE NORMAL thing to do.
And yes of course we all had some f*ing “controversial” opinions back then. It was our youth after all :-) No holding back with what you would probably call unbearable extremes nowadays. And then nobody needed to do any canceling or banning or crushing our skulls…
What? I think anonymity was much more prevalent then. “Don’t give anyone your real name on the internet, for anything ever” was a rule generally followed until Facebook came around. It wasn’t even common for a non-business email address to be a variation on your real name until around 2008
Nobody needed a pseudonym back then.
You could just speak your mind openly and always write your real name to it, and it was THE NORMAL thing to do.
And yes of course we all had some f*ing “controversial” opinions back then. It was our youth after all :-) No holding back with what you would probably call unbearable extremes nowadays. And then nobody needed to do any canceling or banning or crushing our skulls…
What? I think anonymity was much more prevalent then. “Don’t give anyone your real name on the internet, for anything ever” was a rule generally followed until Facebook came around. It wasn’t even common for a non-business email address to be a variation on your real name until around 2008
I think that was later, when money started to take over.