“Going online” is a behavior that evolved over 4 decades of janky modes to what it is now (The WELL began as a VAX machine in 1985 and is now a Madtodon server…?)

BBS/AOL-Compuserve-Usenet/We1/Web2/mobile

Wonder if “onchain” Will have a similar trajectory. Farcaster = AOL era?

L2s = Usenet?

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L2s more like AOL, Farcaster is more like Usenet.

AOL was a focused view into the broader internet, that slowly widened its aperture (like OP forks early on picking specific use cases, e.g. Zora, then widened to broader use cases)

Farcaster is a separate protocol that interacts with networks, has its own consensus.