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I always thought whatever generation comes next will have it so good, because the i ternet is fast and well developed and shit. But no, the internet actually peaked in 2000. With all the ads now, it's barely usable anymore. Does anyone remember when you would go to a website and not immediately click it away because it's just a clickbait ad filled minefield?
There's this seach engine called Wiby that only displays old websites. I've used a virtual version of Windows XP to browse random pages through Wiby just to re live the feeling of the web feeling more like a library and less like a night market.
I remember websites having links to other websites that weren't really affiliated and that being as effective as an searches. You clicked through the internet like it was a file folder system managed by thousands of html authors playing the telephone game.
Ooh! Remember what was the original premise of Google's PageRank? A site was classified as more valuable if other sites linked to it. ...I have no idea exactly what they do nowadays, because clearly search engines have every reason to be suspicious of people linking to other sites.
Haha ahhh pre-enshitified internet was so good. Anonymity through obscurity ig.
Not sure i'm particularly concerned what most search provides consider "suspicious" these days.
All my homies were part of a webring.
There's a split opinion on when exactly the internet peaked at. You'll have some people say 2007, others will say 2009 and then there's those who'll even say mid-2000s like 2005. My personal opinion is that I think it peaked at 2007. Social Media was fairly at its infancy with Reddit, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace all a few years old each by that point. Cell phone technology was still primarily 3G. The Messenger Era was at its peak but was also starting to steadily go downhill.
2009 was actually when the internet started to corrode and it began with Facebook acquiring FriendFeed and that cracked open the idea that corporations could take control of the open web, which they eventually try and do as the years followed.