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Years of nattering on dissensus and still not a single strong account of why ~2004 was such a break with the past

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that and home computers being cheap enough that so many more people had access, and crucially 1st gen of kids who benefited from that were native to fucking around with shit like the fruity loops demo coming of age

the forums and filesharing were the split, they can't see the forest for the trees - the old paths withered and new hyperconnected ones opened!