I never experienced it but somehow I still feel nostalgic for it. For all we've gained there's so much we've lost as well, I'm sad my kids won't grow up with anything like this.
For all we've gained... the social media site I have the healthiest relationship with is basically just text and would run fine on a machine from 1998. Sure, some parts of modernity are nice (I don't miss having to call taxi companies) but I could do without a lot of it.
> The maturity brought upon us homogenized experience.
This is "hunter gatherer experience": click an element, see if it does something (opens a link, displays a menu), see if it brings any value. Such a waste of human life.