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The early mass-adopted Internet, where every company aimed at kids had a website with free games, where everyone who wanted to share about themselves or their interests did so in their own little corner so you could rabbit-hole your way through the link trees, most stuff was non-monetized or had easy-to-block ads, and no tracking of your behavior was really happening.
All this stuff is still around, you just ignore it in favour of things like lemmy which are better at stimulating dopamine production.
This may be true, but,
is an unfair claim. It used to be easier to find unmonetized small sites and blogs. I know some still exist, but I can’t help but wonder how many more are buried out in the web, unable to be accessed by newcomers because those who run search engines have different interests than their users.
Yes but since most users aren't using these spaces they are not the same.
Remember AOL Keywords?
People who weren't online at the time can't possibly imagine how truly awesome the Internet used to be.
I miss separate websites.
You should make one! Neocities works if you need a host, free with no ads
Yea. These people always fantasize about personal websites. There are still a lot of those outside of the mainstream websites.
I would rather a guess that it's way more than the early days of the internet, but it seems like the most amount of effort these people can put is to whine about the good ol' days.
Reminds me of MAGA folks.
Insanely stupid take that tells me you weren't online before Facebook
I didn't have internet till like the 2010s
What did I miss out on?
You used to visit websites. News aggregators weren't a thing so you'd visit the different sites focusing on different things. Search engines actually worked so you'd constantly be stumbling upon passion projects by highly knowledgeable people. You'd also find geocities sites teaching you how to go Super Saiyan, it was the wild West.
Instead of reddit and Lemmy, there were hundreds of niche forums. Maybe this is just me but human connection was a LOT easier. The internet was mostly populated by tech-savvy people who were excited to be online
Memes as we know them weren't really a thing. They existed but you'd reply with them when they were relevant. People didn't really "post" memes and no one was making the mass-market garbage that fills the Internet today.
I could go on a tirade on the last one because I truly believe memes were a significant factor in the downfall of internet culture
Every Cartoon Network show having it's own free games on their website was peak computer room time for me in elementary school. Fun fact: If any of you remember the Amanda Show from the early 2000s, their website AmandaPlease.com was up til 2017. It was a true nostalgia moment to remember to look at once in a blue moon as a chuckle to old website styles.
The first game I every played that had "dailies" was a Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends browser game, that gave you a "chores list" you had to complete before accessing certain activities. You'd get a new list every day, and if you didn't complete them, you'd have a longer list the next time you played. There was no login or anything, I assume it just worked off of browser cookies.
Spacejam is still up!