It’s nice to hear about the positive side of internet and all these stories people share here. Usually it’s much more about the negative aspects like one of my own personal posts I wrote from the middle of lockdowns about a year ago, touching upon the distractions of the internet and how it’s been slowly re-wiring my brain: https://www.lostbookofsales.com/age-of-distractions/

Since I moved to a smaller town here in northern Finland from the heart of Germany, thanks to the internet I feel no less connected to communities, teachers (MIT, Harvard, etc. as I’m doing my masters degree) and friends than before.

You have to balance the negative and positive sides and control yourself. I think it’s a huge net positive though as becomes obvious from this thread.