Reasons Why the Old Internet Was So Much Better

(My Opinion)
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The Top Ten
1 Most websites had personalities and customization

Especially on MySpace where you could customize your page by learning CSS coding.

Yeah.

2 YouTube was a place for fun and creativity

And now it's just a dumpster fire with the crappy new layout, the 2019 COPPA update, double ads, and you can't even say what you want to say anymore.

2017 - 2019 really screwed YouTube HARD. Thanks Susan, and your replacement puppet as well.

Pre-2020 YouTube was awesome.

3 Instead of Facebook, we had MySpace as the Social Media king

MySpace > Facebook.

4 We had no Twitter dumpster fires of offended people

I kinda want to go back to the olden internet, Waiting like 10 minutes for AOL to boot up is better than SJWs offended about stupid crap.

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6 The games we played with heavy nostalgia (even if most of them don't hold up)

Things only become nostalgic after years.

7 We loved to dislike George W. Bush
8 Only a few trolls, but hardly anyone got easily offended (Except for the Hot Coffee controversy)
9 Many Nostalgic YouTubers such as FRED, Smosh, AVGN, LonelyGirl15, and many more
10 Windows XP

Windows 7 was also pretty good.

The Contenders
11 No Cancel Culture