We’re talking about the same medium that spawned the unholy walled garden of AOL right? Internet has always been a case study of late stage capitalism. Way back when the Military industrial complex was involved. There’s a reason cyberpunk is an old genre.
The broadband period, after AOL and the dot com crash, was probably the peak.
We had car videos, google was pretty good at finding things and its ads were separated. Geocities and webrings were dying, but we had high design gallery sites that were human curated and had some great stuff.
Flash was still a fun thing, and not just a banner ad delivery tool.
Forums and spam bots and email scams were a thing, but had always been there and were fairly easy to avoid/ignore. Still annoying though.
We’re talking about the same medium that spawned the unholy walled garden of AOL right? Internet has always been a case study of late stage capitalism. Way back when the Military industrial complex was involved. There’s a reason cyberpunk is an old genre.
The broadband period, after AOL and the dot com crash, was probably the peak.
We had car videos, google was pretty good at finding things and its ads were separated. Geocities and webrings were dying, but we had high design gallery sites that were human curated and had some great stuff.
Flash was still a fun thing, and not just a banner ad delivery tool.
Forums and spam bots and email scams were a thing, but had always been there and were fairly easy to avoid/ignore. Still annoying though.