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by syndicatedjelly 845 days ago
My memories of early 2000s internet are from when I was a young age, and are now growing distant in memory…

That said, most of the internet then felt very informal, teenage, and “cringy”. Being a computer nerd back then was actually weird, at least all the way through high school (late 2000s for me) Normal society called you a “geek” and a “loser” for being a net surfer.

People with rose-tinted glasses of those times are imagining something other than what I remember, though