Is the Internet a Modern in-Cell Community?

R9K and Wizardchan grew into what we see today as like the modern in-cell, I suppose. Certainly there were a lot of toxic users when I was a Wizardchan's admin for that short period. It was a very dark time. The skills that I learned definitely informed Achan, the skills with the image board software, the administration,. What to do about certain types of attacks that were in their infancy at that time.