Maybe some of these things didn't engage us as much, but it is dubious whether that's for better or for worse. For what it's worth: > listen music on youtube

Maybe some of these things didn't engage us as much, but it is dubious whether that's for better or for worse. For what it's worth: > listen music on youtube True by definition, but listening to and distributing music via computer networks has been going on since the 80s. > learn and use any programming language for free There were plenty of resources on that on the web in the 90s and on bulletin board systems in the 80s. > git A complete side note since it has nothing to do with the web. > open source Many significant open/free software projects started in the 90s. NetBSD/FreeBSD since 93. GNU has been around since 83. > read the latest news in online newspapers from remote countries News websites surprisingly existed in the 90s as well. It is speculative to say that their increasing plurality owes anything to the current centralization trend. > broadcast on twitter Broadcast on your own personal website. Broadcast in a newsgroup. Broadcast by email. Broadcast on IRC. > social networks Bulletin boards. Email. Newsgroups. > slack IRC > OS updates Like, say, Slackware in the mid 90s? > World of Warcraft/games On-line, networked games existed before the web and don't really need to rely on it. > crypto currencies Again, not really dependent on the web.