I hope all the people who think that the Internet is hostile now understand…

the Internet used to be almost entirely composed of this guy.

Like in 1996 if you wanted to do something on the Internet you had to deal with some version of him. I worked for the top car electronics installer in Houston in the 90s, who ran a few websites as a hobby and he was 100% like this.

Literally sat and typed out Monty Python dialogue so he could just have it hosted on his page, and would make .WAVs of annoying customers to put on the site