People talk about the old internet and how it used to be full of people sharing their interests and obsessions. I would argue that content on Youtube is interse

People talk about the old internet and how it used to be full of people sharing their interests and obsessions. I would argue that content on Youtube is intersecting the Geocities end of that period. Every oddball thing you could look up in 2000 is happening right now in someone's backyard on Youtube. Also ten times as many worthless spam videos, but this also correlates with the Geocities period. I don't like Youtube for a lot of reasons, but I love how it's illustrating that the nostalgic internet wasn't so much a contextual or cultural thing, it was more about the result of easy access to DIY publishing and the means to discover the results.