Did flat fee unlimited access ruin the net?

The internet was never better than in 1995 when AOL was 3 bucks an hour. Upper-middle class whites and asians used it almost exclusively.

Now it's overrun by shit and niggers. That monthly fee kept the riffraff out and made people use their online time wisely instead of wasting it.

Now every chat room is full of people who don't talk, staying logged in with bots. Every forum is full of spammers making 100 posts a day.

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Yeah, I used a couple BBSs. There was a space battle strategy game that I used to play, you'd get a certain number of moves per day, it was a bit like the Risk board game. They also had some primitive messaging and file downloads.

Mostly the internet was usenet and listservs back then. There were a number of archie servers that acted as the search engine for ftp sites, but it was hard to find stuff. I mostly hung out on alt.2600 and alt.sysadmin.recovery, occasionally a couple of the comp.* groups.

Some things are better these days, for instance it's much easier to find specific information. There's always been idiots, though the proportion seems higher these days, and the whole tl;dr sort of mentality kind of bothers me.