Remember when the Web was fun?
All of this talk about “Web 2.0″ got me thinking about when I started using the World Wide Web in 1995.
Things back then were more fun than they are today.
We had animated gifs with no apparent purpose, flaming e-mail icons, and having your own space on the web was more difficult than signing onto MySpace and linking to videos on YouTube.
You could log-on to AOL and cause trouble in a chatroom to the point that your parents’ account was notified. You could argue with your friends about whether to buy a V90 or a K2 modem. You got to listen to the cool noises of making a dialup connection.
While things now are possibly more interesting, the mid-90s on the WWW were much more fun. I guess that is not as much a factor of the technology, but rather, no longer being 15 years old.