When I was a little boy, a friend of a relative was using an oldschool bbs, and I only realized what it was like twenty something years later. My history with online interaction was on the gamefaqs forum, so I got used to censorship from the very beginning. However, I also learned how to circumvent it, and ultimately wind up in places with less of it, such as 4chan.

Even though I did wind up on myspace, my 'community' there overlapped with others such as somethingawful, and break. Yeah, it's kinda like who you grew up with. They either grew up, died, or moved on in some other way. Those times....I miss them a lot. Sure, there was some bad with the good, but mostly, it just was.

Edit: Welcome to saidit. :)