Comment by _DeadFred_

Long ago times there was a sense of community, but also of loneliness/isolation at the same time. There was also much more accessibility/approachability, there was less to understand and it was easier to understand because we were spoonfed in bits as things were invented/developed and the reasons behind them. Trying to get my son tech skills I had a challenge, where do I even start? It's all just uninteresting dogma you just need to memorize now but for us it was 'this spec/software developed from this and ah ok I see the reasons why'.

Since 40 years ago there have been what, 400 million people years of development work done? That is harder to digest, harder to approach, harder to feel you are a part of something unique and exciting or of a small community.