I haven't been around on the internet for all that long. I hadn't even really heard anything about it until about 7 or 8 years ago. As for the 80's well... I think I was a little young back then.

It seems that the internet does an amazing thing to people's maturity. For the younger generation (teens etc) they try to act more mature (for obvious reasons) and the older they are (in a lot of cases) the more immature they act. Don't ask me why, but it's true, at least in my experience.