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Real "Old Man on the Porch" vibes coming from this one. I was around for the early internet, you're completely losing touch with society and reality if you think it's the same.
Most people at that time didn't get their news and gossip from a device in their hand. It was called a newspaper, education, or listening to your peers. Internet extremists were still considered fringe or whacko's and you had to hunt them down to learn more, they weren't blasted by an algorithm on a front loading page for you.
People's businesses and way of life weren't determined by their access to internet and the corporations didn't have such a stranglehold across the economical board when it came to online. The hero worship of those that control the companies wasn't at such an all time high, but considered a weird cult.
I'm not even going to go into the difference a child has on the internet today versus what a kid going through the 90's was like, there's just no comparison to what's going on now. Yeah we had obscure boards, messengers, and silly videos on multiple sites....that's seriously nothing compared to how mainstream everything has become.