I canโt fully explain to younger people how cool the internet used to be. We had open forums, personal websites, weird experimental pages, and chaotic corners of the web, before Amazon, Google, and Meta turned it into a sterile, closed ecosystem of clutter, and commerce.
You should look back on your embarrassing past selves with an urge to wrap them up in the most comforting hug imaginable, not with condescending resentment