If you had a time machine that could set the internet back to what it was like in a certain era, when would that be?

N0t_5ure@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

If you had a time machine that could set the internet back to what it was like in a certain era, when would that be?

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

peak newgrounds.

sorghum@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 2 months ago

Anytime pre-facebook allowing signups to anything but .edu email addresses

lordnikon@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

November 21st 1998 at 20:38pm ET and it stays there forever

200ok@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

Definitely before 2016, agreed

TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

2003, and hold it there.

Default Username@lemmy.dbzer0.com · edit-2 2 months ago

Any time before 2005, when YouTube started the mass corporatization of the Internet (Web 2.0)

Tracaine@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

Null. Back to when it didn’t exist. This was a mistake.

whaleross@lemmy.world · edit-2 2 months ago

The time when people were doing strange and funny websites by cut and paste design on Geocities and Angelfire, new music was found on MySpace, vinyl rips of rare obscurities were posted on blogs you follow in Reader and expanding your music catalogue was amazing on SoulSeek.

I’m quite happy that movie distribution have evolved beyond blocky 1-2CD DivX;-) though.

actionjbone@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago