The lack of massive copyright strikes, barely any intrusive ads, little to no subscription services, and the simplicity of everything. Now, you can't use music without angering a company, gotta pay for reading damn articles, and now you gotta sign up for an account in everything.
Having to turn it on to use it. Now it’s inescapable.
user customisability. online profiles were awesome until like 2013 where it all became plain black or white backgrounds with a banner. you could have custom backgrounds or even entirely custom CSS in a lot of websites. I really love the theme my instance uses because a lot of Lemmy instance themes are plain and dull too, just default black or white with no creativity, unlike db0 with the crazy outer space and fire and shit. makes it feel more human.
It's one of k my biggest criticisms of Lemmy. No ability for communities to customise themselves. Reddit's redesign is awful, but at least allows a little customisation, and classic Reddit with its custom CSS was awesome. It hurts rpggreentext greatly not to be able to use CSS to show…the eponymous greentext.
Geocities. A platform where anyone, regardless of technical skill or any design sense could go wild about their passion.
From online community to a meetup.
I am going really old internet here but the sense of adventure. I had something called the Internet Yellow Pages because search engines didn’t really exist yet. And going to these sites using ftp, Archie, gopher, etc., you never knew what you were going to find.
The ease of piracy. Literally type whatever you want into any search engine.
1900HOTDOG from two of the Cracked diaspora, TVs Seanbaby from the internet and Beef Digests runner up for Salami Slab of 2014, Robert Brockway!
And the associated podcast, The Dogg Zzone 9000.
Lack of privacy invasion and surveillance
I'll go with the algorithms. Google was greater than god, twitter and reddit were endless scrolling. YouTube is being pretty great still, except when shorts wakes up and chooses violence for the day.
Infoseek
Legend of the Red Dragon
I would be on various forums for different hobbies of mine. They were relatively small and you'd recognize other uses frequently, and there was drama between each other. It was fun lol.
Blank html Pages only containing pages of blue links to various SWF(flash) movies. Purple if I watched them.
The send of novelty and usefulness that came with the use of the internet. Especially with things like messengers. Irc. Forums and online multiplayer games.
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