"When search engines used to actually find what you were looking for no matter how obscure."
"I can remember googling phone numbers and getting actual information about them, not some bullsh#t scam site."
"Definitely the early 2000s, when YouTube was full of random, creative content and social media was still a fun place to connect with friends"
"People in chat rooms felt like real people."
"Jeeves literally presented results on a platter for us. He wasnt great at finding everything but he sure was polite"
"Remember when moderators could tolerate hearing something they didn’t like?"
"When MySpace was a thing and Facebook wasn’t."
"Pre-“news feed” Facebook was pretty great…"
"Pre: “don’t forget to like comment and subscribe”"
"When everything was more “fragmented”. You wanted to talk to friends – msn/local equivalent. Wanted to post pictures – Myspace/Fb. Wanted to learn how to jailbreak the first iphone, repair your car or cook a salmon properly – everything had its own forum group with – in majority of cases – a great search engine. You wanted to post anonymously? Have a blog. There was space for everything.
Now it’s all mixed in one/two messy platforms where nobody can find anything."
"Yeah, Google used to give you the thing you were looking for. Now it’s some bullsh#t ai thing that is most likely wrong, a page of ads for cheap garbage, and then maybe the answer you were actually after."
"The beginning of the end was sometime in 2011 when corporations and other social media apps started to flood the market and get popular (as well as corporations using social media to advertise)."
"The early 2000s felt like the golden age, it was a time when dial-up was still a thing, and we were discovering all the quirky corners of the web"
"When youtube was ad free. Kazaa was wreaking havoc and the Pirate Bay was openly saying f@#k you come get us. So probably 2000-2010"
"I miss yahoo messenger."
"Before it became censored, and control by 5 corporations."
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