Scott, did your boss fire you today? I don’t see anyone glorifying film over digital. I don’t know what the heck you’re referring to, but I think you need to go back and reread the posts, then count to 10, and come back and apologize for your rant.
And oh, by the way, we had lots of ways to view photographs before the web. Magazines, museums, making multiple prints from a negative and sending them to people, projecting slides on a big screen (way more engrossing than viewing images on a little 17 or 20″ monitor, btw).
Digital is great, but don’t think it’s the be all and end all of photography, or that the modern generation invented photo sharing.
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.