This was true back in the days when getting online had a serious personality component... only the patient and persistent people could get online. And there was no web, you had to then figure out USENET which to me for a long time was the ultimate noob test... just say "USENET" to someone.. if they don't know what it is they're a noob. Of course, these days that's less true because USENET is pretty much a thing of the past.

More efficient load-handling was one of the primary selective pressures contributing to the development of bipedalism in the genus homo.