The early Internet #
A long long time ago, before my time, the internet was a far cry from what it is today. Free from corporate greed and engagement optimized algorithms, it was simply a place to express yourself and find a genuine human connection. Nowadays the social aspect of the internet, social media, is almost entirely corporatised. And for someone like me whose experience with the early internet is a foggy memory of games like club penguin and poptropica at best, It was extremely hard to even consider that the internet could be something better, even though I was aware cognitively how modern social media works, I simply had to experience a taste of the old decentralized internet to truly understand.
The old net and what remains #
I was inspired to write this article by stumbling onto a website from a