This really captures many of the differences. I'll just add that though we have more content creators today the motivation is what's really changed so much. Ba

This really captures many of the differences. I'll just add that though we have more content creators today the motivation is what's really changed so much. Back then it was harder to share your own content, either by learning HTML or hosting your own server and no real monetary rewards for doing so, and no social status indicators except for maybe 'hit counters'. Because of this it was passion for the topic that motivated people to share with far less focus on how it looked or the way it was presented. Now with advertising, upvoting and platform biases people are more judgemental while reading others work. The motivation to create traffic and increase social outreach changed the nature of sharing itself.