Back in the 1980s when I was at Digital Equipment Corporation we had a world wide network and interacted with each other through a program called VAXnotes. We knew then that when the web came, the ability for people to make complete asses of themselves online to a huge amount of people was inevitable.
Our theory was proven out. Those were good days when us self entitled elites could discuss things like religion and politics without the fecal matter that gets widely splattered against the wall now days.
Good ole DEC. Could’ve invented Facebook, did invent a search engine, and couldn’t monetize it when it was Nr. 1.