The Internet Feels Dead, Doesn’t It?

A person born in 1992 does fucking not remember the early days of the internet. That’s so LOL-worthy. They’d barely even remember the middle days. The real early days of the commercial internet were people creating pages and writing out of interest, passion and desire to form a connection, to meet someone who also liked collecting 1950s bottle tops or glass power line insulators.

No one was making any money and it was a lot of fun. This era ended with the IPOs of many major tech companies in 1998-1999 (when the writer was eight years old). The early internet is mostly how I wish it had stayed. It was better in most ways; it at least it wasn’t a surveillance apocalypse as it is now.