In the early days of the internet, when technology was strictly the domain of engineers, we had such a utopia. When the "normal" people joined, all the problems started ...
It’s a shame that this thing that excited me (internet) has become something that I now consider a huge barrier. Not that we should be without the benefits; I simply don’t know how we reconcile the vile aspects.
Eternal September:
Here, we have Mockapetris and Dunlap reflecting on rolling out DNS to UC Berkeley (the B in BSD) between 1985 and 1988 [0, 1]:
> Educating even the sophisticated Berkeley user community on the new form of [DNS] addressing turned out to be a major task.
They're complaining about how some of the most technically inclined users and researchers at one of the most technically advanced organizations couldn't RTFM. It seems like, depending on your perspective, the Eternal September might've started a bit early that decade.