@Aether >Internet communities start and grow, developing their own niche cultures.
>Competing search engines and indexes help link these. The most useful grow rapidly.
>SEO is born. Search engines implement paid results placements. Parallelism and copying of successful strategies.
>Searching for a simple recipe now gives you 88 paragraphs about sleigh riding at grandmother's lake house before you find how to bake cookies.
>AI comes along. Cycle of parallel quality degradation begins a new.
>⭐ Present day (you are here).

Going to be neat if BBS and old php forums return.