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Ebaumsworld days
The days before everything became enshittiffied, before 6 or 7 giant corps took over, the days before social media became a cesspit of slanging matches & false lifestyles, the days when search engines worked & displayed what you searched for not what they think you want to see, the days before shitty algorithms clogged your feeds up endlessly with shit that you searched for once during a conversation you had with someone at work, the days where news sites showed news headlines not bullshit clickbait lies, the days before evil corps tracked every move you make, the days before you were forced to have a shitty app for everything.
The days when going online was fun & interesting. I hope Lemmy continues to bring back some of that fun!
1996 ~ 2009.
The bracket of that time period for the internet was beautiful. It offered exploration, it encouraged people to be more interactive. But as time went on after 2009, things became more stagnant and manufactured. It was a gradual, slowburn process until 2016 where it felt like a gunshot was fired. Then that projected us into a period of the internet where everything was destined to be shit at every turn.
Can't go around many places without making an account, people are just absolute bastards by nature, people pretending they know everything like they're walking wikis, websites have soulless designs where everything is flat, everything has to have stupid drop down menus, have to bother you about cookies that it forces you to accept, grayed-out screens, tip-toeing the lines of what's acceptable to be posted and on and on.
The only thing about the internet today that's getting better is the speed, but nothing else.
First decade of google. After that all censorship and wokeness broke loose.