Digital Anthropology: Is Web 2.0 an Idiocracy?

[acidexia]

If you are like me you might come from a generation that was raised online before the boom of social networking sites. The Internet was once a secret room that only the freaks could experience. We were trolling before it was called trolling and we didn't do it for mob sport but intellectual exercise. My first exposure to the Internet was through a

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[in_a_greenhouse]

I remember having to log in to Compuserve or aol on a slow-ass dialup modem to use the internet. And then mostly it was to write nonsense in those themed chatrooms where people pretended to be dragons and stuff. Sometimes in geometry we went to the computer lab to play Math Blaster; someone had secretly installed Doom on the network, and there was always at least one kid who knew the command prompts. Good times.