/lit/ - Literature

>>16330892
>lived rather than sat home all day glued to their computers
No, I don't think so. 4chan has always been avant garde, and those of us who were here first were also the first generation of extremely online schizophrenics. The others were only just beginning to adopt this mode of existence in 2011/2012, pic related.
>Writing threads were much higher quality and average post lengths were longer.
Very true. Fiction was discussed much more often and the much more rare political discussions were dominated by Marxists.
>Today lots of them would be in their 40s and 50s.
This is a real stretch. I don't think there's any evidence that the average age of posters has gone down over time. Anyone over 30 was always an "oldfag" irl.