I had no problems with aliases and cartoon avatars on blogs and forums while people were nice on the internet. I had one, I was present in forum and post and never revealed my real name. I remember those days. It didn't matter much if the user named "Rockstar123" was 10 or 30 years old, male, female or from any religion. Even behind those fake identities, people were generally nice to each other.

This does not happen anymore. People are nasty on the internet, especially anonymous. This is why, at least for my sites and social media interactions, I require a name (you can never be sure it is real) but at least it's something.

Can we go back when the internet was a better place?