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Google could actually find you things.
The first page of searches was almost never brimming with corporate shit, but very Web 1.0 looking niche websites.
Browser based games were all the rage.
Oh God, flash animations. Albino Blacksheep. Our sense of humor was... primitive.
Fuck, webcomics too. They were big back then. And mostly shit, lmao.
Everyone had a blog. Not like modern cookie-cutter blogs, but slapdash HTML pages with unintuitive layouts and garish backgrounds and graphics. 9/10 times that's where super obscure information was. Midi files - god, do kids even know what midi files are anymore?
There were a million fansites for every fandom. No centralization.
There was a much stronger sense of the internet being a unique place, apart from meatspace. Maybe it was just the aftermath of the dotcom bubble busting, but everything was very... open. Communal. People just... freely sharing themselves and their work.
I'm so glad my Diary-X got irretrievably wiped.
they are not worthy of the title if they just had one disk and no backups. to be so knowledgeable and yet so stupid is a memorable achievement.
Didn't have one of those but I did have a Livejournal, GreatestJournal, Xanga and Diaryland plus others.