The Blackberry era was my favorite. You could do all the important stuff and even check sports scores or breaking news or whatever. You couldn’t really doomscroll because no one had done that yet. Even Facebook — which was just for college students at that point and was legit useful. You could find people in a class you were taking and lived in your dorm and get notes from them if you missed class. And you could just download any song you wanted on Kazaa or whatever. No one’s boss emailed them outside of work hours and expected a response.
Probably 2003ish? I don’t know what year it all went to shit. But the Internet seemed like a world of possibilities then.
I’d have also advocated to heavily restrict tlds. Like .org only for real, recognized non-profit organizations.
The Blackberry era was my favorite. You could do all the important stuff and even check sports scores or breaking news or whatever. You couldn’t really doomscroll because no one had done that yet. Even Facebook — which was just for college students at that point and was legit useful. You could find people in a class you were taking and lived in your dorm and get notes from them if you missed class. And you could just download any song you wanted on Kazaa or whatever. No one’s boss emailed them outside of work hours and expected a response.
Probably 2003ish? I don’t know what year it all went to shit. But the Internet seemed like a world of possibilities then.
I’d have also advocated to heavily restrict tlds. Like .org only for real, recognized non-profit organizations.