I kind of like it. It's so curious to visit sites and look 20 years into the past, where not everyone was on Facebook or whatever and we didn't even quite know

I kind of like it. It's so curious to visit sites and look 20 years into the past, where not everyone was on Facebook or whatever and we didn't even quite know what works and what doesn't. Just experimenting with new ideas that sort of could have been a thing (fediverse/web rings), but didn't pan out. Of course, people might prefer to keep the particulars of their relationships with others a bit more private than XFN would have you do. Regardless, it's very interesting when even old sites like that stick around and you can see those old ideas in great fidelity, perhaps sans a CRT monitor.