system
A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
Imagine if the internet exclusively remained a network for scholars to communicate and for the archiving of research and work, and only people that needed it for those reasons could access it, using very limited and specialized machines that couldn't just be purchased. It would basically be like if the internet was just those paid access scholarly archives but extended to the computers themselves being exclusive.
gpt
Maybe we're in a parallel internet. Perhaps the genius behind it arranged a separate party so the academics wouldn't have to experience the based in society, kind of like the "bad boys" table at the wedding reception, or a psych ward.