It would help if you stated your age. The internet was probably most exciting before and around the 2000s, when there was an actual ton of information and faceb

It would help if you stated your age. The internet was probably most exciting before and around the 2000s, when there was an actual ton of information and facebook hadn't come around. A major thing is people did not use their real identity / names anywhere. It just wasn't a thing before facebook, and you could really be a dog or talk to a dog. That made everything exciting , mysterious and people found it a lot more easy to experiment , i.e. freedom. After facebook and real identity, the audience and the behaviors changed. There is distinctive lack of 'free spirits' in the internet that we see today. There was not an overabundance of information , and the audience was more technical / academic, so most of the information was OK. OTOH, the main applications were mostly the same: search, forums, groups, chat, packaged in different forms and in many small gardens instead of behind huge walled gardens.