• PlainSimpleGarak@lemm.ee
    18·
    4 months ago

    It was great before the dot com bubble burst. Even obscure fan websites had paid advertising. Even for a while after, is was great and still usable mostly because corporations hadn’t yet figured out how to completely monetize the internet.

    Message boards and forums were the extent of online engagement. I miss it.

    • brax@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      4 months ago

      I can’t stand people who use Discord as a support platform… Absolutely nothing comes up in internet searches, and then you have to try to find an old discussion, or ask the same question as 50 other people. It’s dumb.

    • ansiz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      You must be thinking of a different for com bubble, like OG was like 1995 to 2002. 2002 including the bubble bursting. Gems include the amazing sale of broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5 billion! Like 10k per user of broadcast.com! In 2002 even companies like Cisco lost well over half their stock value and a ton of online seller website disappeared.