Of course the sentiment is there as with any of these kind of posts but a bit revisionist. News, media, personal websites sure, but forums? not so much. Of course usenet and mailing lists and chat rooms but not forums so much. Everything was disjointed and revolved around loosely connected website rings etc. Which brings me to another part - the thing about knowing stuff about people. Reduce that to just knowing people in general. It was double-edged sword. You could connect if you were savvy enough over email with like minded, but if that connection went away for whatever reason, there wasn't like a backup default trail like we have now with Facebook and other general profiles we all see to have. People would disappear with no way to connect to them. Not the best when you look back at it from what we have now and kind of wish some of those connections weren't just 'lost'.
They didn't mean digital music production, they meant digital downloads/streaming of finished music products. As in later in the early 2000s and beyond iPods and mp3 players and then streaming changed everything as far as accessibility.
2023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37646964
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