Consume the degradation
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There were certain filters that made it great.
You had to have a powerful enough computer, so there was an income filter, you had to have enough intelligence to install TCP/IP, a browser, and connection hardware plus drivers and get it all working together, so there was an intelligence filter, and you had to know people who were already on the Internet so there was a social filter.
As a result, when you go back to Usenet posts and blog posts from this period of time, the content from the average user was much more erudite and articulate.
Facebook was founded in 2004 and the iPhone was introduced in 2007. By then, most computers started coming out of the box "internet ready" and the tragedy of the commons struck.