How text boards have affected you

Are you an experienced textboarder? If so, how have your experiences here affected you? Has it changed your way of thinking? Has it improved your writing and debate skills? Or do you think it's harmful? Any other thoughts or observations you want to share about it?

>>7
people are still talking about Lisp, FP,, complaining about social media, aka the same shit as always.

old people stop learning new things. it starts after age 25.

if you want to talk about cutting edge programming shit, you probably have to go to reddit or Snapchat or something.