• ばにちゃん@lemmy.world
    3·
    8 months ago

    The infancy of YouTube and Twitch. Everyone made content for fun, pretty much no one was nude or in a hot tub, monetization didn’t censor everything.

    It was nice 🙂👍

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 months ago

    Livejournal in the late 90s-early 2000s. God I made such great lifelong friends there. Nowhere else has had that level of intimacy.

  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    It was obviously when Homestar Runner was at his peak (the character himself, the webseries named after him, and the website it’s hosted in all at the same time). This guy literally changed the accents of some people.

  • SecretPancake@feddit.de
    1·
    8 months ago

    I have a lot of nostalgia for the late 90s/early 00s when the internet was still exciting. Videos! Games! Flash! Chats! Piracy! Winamp!

        • NovaPrime@lemmy.ml
          1·
          8 months ago

          I remember spending 3 whole days downloading LotR: Two Towers (a huge feat as I had to finesse the entire household to not pick up the phone for those three days), only to end up with an audio-only file and a shit ton of viruses. Glorious memories

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    Anywhere from the 90s to the mid to late 2000s because that’s when you saw the most personal websites being made and what I would consider the golden era of Newgrounds. Now, I wasn’t able to experience the personal websites of the 90s, but through various means I’ve seen some really cool personal websites from back then.

  • Saltarello@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    The days before everything became enshittiffied, before 6 or 7 giant corps took over, the days before social media became a cesspit of slanging matches & false lifestyles, the days when search engines worked & displayed what you searched for not what they think you want to see, the days before shitty algorithms clogged your feeds up endlessly with shit that you searched for once during a conversation you had with someone at work, the days where news sites showed news headlines not bullshit clickbait lies, the days before evil corps tracked every move you make, the days before you were forced to have a shitty app for everything.

    The days when going online was fun & interesting. I hope Lemmy continues to bring back some of that fun!

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
    0·
    8 months ago

    The Fediverse, today.

    But no not really. If you are on Tiktok or shit like that suddenly there are actually people living close to you. Connecting to people you can actually meet is important.

    • soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz
      01·
      8 months ago

      I was not expecting anyone to say the TikTok era is the best of the internet. Each to their own I guess, you’re wrong though

  • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    0·
    8 months ago

    For me, it was the 90s, before the entire landscape got consumed by giant corporations. I know it wasn’t all roses back then, but it felt like you could find anything online, and it opened up a whole new world.

    Remember when almost every new web site had a guestbook and would sometimes let you sign up for an email address using their domain? I had a [username]@britneyspears.com email address for a while.