You see kids, back when I joined the online world in the ancient days of 1995 (you wouldn't BELIEVE how much of a pain it is to cram a cuneiform tablet into a modem), the internet was a much different realm — email existed, FTP existed, a few text - heavy websites existed, but a significant part of our social interaction took place in a huge and diverse set of discussion groups collectively
called the Usenet.
He reminds me of what happened, over 15 years ago, on a newsgroup
called RCTN on
Usenet, a predecessor to the Internet.