I miss a lot of it, too. I definitely miss forums, which unfortunately seem to have gone by the wayside in favor of Facebook groups, which aren't nearly as good IMO. You don't have the anonymity (unless you create a fake account), the mods/admins tend to turn into power hungry control freaks and take their jobs way too seriously, and the groups tend to be flooded with poor advice and catty, high school-esque behavior. The forums could be hit or miss, of course, but you had your anonymity and there seemed to generally be a better community in the ones I frequented. Though there are still forums, most of them are pretty dead these days (and one of my favorites disappeared out of the blue one day, sadly).
I also liked the old GeoCities-style pages. GIFs, wild colors and fonts, and that classic early Internet design. There's something so fun about it!
I miss old YouTube as well, before the ads and insane censorship.
I feel like Google used to be so much more accurate around 10 years ago as well, rather than showing the same stupid BuzzFeed articles, ads, products that only very vaguely have anything to do with what you're searching for, etc. It seems like you have to do so much digging to come across what you're looking for anymore. There used to be so many great sites I used to have easy access to and can't find for the life of me anymore (of course, I guess they could no longer exist as well). Same with products I bought years ago and used to be able to pull up with a quick Google search. While I know some of it may have been taken down over the years, I have a hard time believing almost all of it has.
IIN I miss the old internet
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I miss a lot of it, too. I definitely miss forums, which unfortunately seem to have gone by the wayside in favor of Facebook groups, which aren't nearly as good IMO. You don't have the anonymity (unless you create a fake account), the mods/admins tend to turn into power hungry control freaks and take their jobs way too seriously, and the groups tend to be flooded with poor advice and catty, high school-esque behavior. The forums could be hit or miss, of course, but you had your anonymity and there seemed to generally be a better community in the ones I frequented. Though there are still forums, most of them are pretty dead these days (and one of my favorites disappeared out of the blue one day, sadly).
I also liked the old GeoCities-style pages. GIFs, wild colors and fonts, and that classic early Internet design. There's something so fun about it!
I miss old YouTube as well, before the ads and insane censorship.
I feel like Google used to be so much more accurate around 10 years ago as well, rather than showing the same stupid BuzzFeed articles, ads, products that only very vaguely have anything to do with what you're searching for, etc. It seems like you have to do so much digging to come across what you're looking for anymore. There used to be so many great sites I used to have easy access to and can't find for the life of me anymore (of course, I guess they could no longer exist as well). Same with products I bought years ago and used to be able to pull up with a quick Google search. While I know some of it may have been taken down over the years, I have a hard time believing almost all of it has.