alt Hacker NewsThe point of early internet discussions was that "On the internet, no-one knows you're a dog".
One could discuss things without the usual silly accusations of sexism or racism or ageism or whatever because no-one knew the characteristics of the other interlocutors.
X now broadcasting everyone's location and people self-announcing their pronouns/race/age whatever are backward steps and make it way to easy for the silly people who want to be victims rather than argue the facts of an issue.
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“On the Internet, no one knows you’re a dog” was a joke in a New Yorker cartoon, and it was not written to be complimentary. It definitely was not “the point” of early Internet discussions.
There is no reason why "the point" of the internet has to be dictated by people who happened to be online in 1995.
You’re saying the great thing about the early internet is you could be sexist and racist without being called out? I thought the great thing about the early internet was the experimentation and discovery on consistently evolving technologies and ideas with like minded folks, but to each their own.
At the same time, showing the IP/hostname you were connecting from was also an early internet norm. IRC, SMTP, Usenet, etc.