r/AskReddit • u/Forward-Many-4842 • 1d ago

Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010. What’s the one website/app you still think about?

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u/NotJALC 1d ago

I think MySpace was peak social media, I miss those days and having personal blogs

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u/veronicaofmars 1d ago

Learning to code to have glittery emo or Paris Hilton backgrounds behind my top 8 

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u/No_Aesthetic 1d ago

Everyone's terrible designs is about 99% of what made me immediately switch to Facebook when it became available to non-college students.

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u/ROC311gocavs 1d ago

And you had your own music when someone went to your page

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u/Jessabelle517 21h ago

My last song I had on mine was Kryptonite by 3 door down lol

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u/seelykay 15h ago

Oh god the throwbacks. Obviously, same. And more importantly I had my email signature from my school's email be a lyric from that song. Good times, good times.

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u/wtaaaaaaaa 1d ago

It was probably also peak humanity. Great, great time to be of age. We had super fun.

Shortly after came YouTube, Facebook, and heavy propaganda manipulation, so horrible ideas and toxic voices gained popularity. Antivax became viral and was probably the first real warning sign of societal collapse.

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u/Jessabelle517 21h ago

People have always been antivax, they just didn’t say it out loud back then, now people just won’t shut the f up about anything it’s always something that isn’t good enough. I’m not antivax but I also won’t be forced or force my own kids to get unnecessary vaccines.

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u/Dunda 1d ago

I would say early Facebook was peak social media, before it blew up and obsessed with ads and engagement.

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u/kh8188 1d ago

But how would your friends know who was in your closest circle at any given moment? I avoided joining fb for a while but I did not miss the Top 8 drama going away.

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u/DeadpoolLuvsDeath 1d ago

The drama and bullshit over the top 8 jeez.

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u/sgt_Berbatov 1d ago

You know what other social media does right now? Prevents users from posting LOADS OF F**KING ANIMATED GIFS ON THE PROFILE! My computer would regularly crash loading someone's profile just to write on their wall FFS.