yes, but one of the main problems the older people had with us was the "spamming" (I hate that word). You were banned 134324 times because of it. Not everyone was a fan of the level or type of activity we had then.
Did you really think you were having the time of your internet life then? I seem to remember the general consensus being that we were online because we had nothing better to do...you were at an IT job with long hours and I was at a college I didn't attend. And one of the pet defense mechanisms that a lot of people presented were "haha, you are such an internet geek. I, on the other hand, have a real life with real life friends and real life drama and action and all of the other things."