>>828857>implying the internet didn't exist in the 2000sZOOM ZOOM
I think the internet was better in the 2000s, less corporatized and uniform, more akin to a Wild West open to experimentation. I would even argue slow download speeds were better, because they weren't any centralized streaming systems like Netflix and Spotify, it would teach patience and to prioritize what you were going to downloading, instead of accumulating more slop on top of slop in between two rows of doomscrolling.