The internet was GLORIOUS when I was young.
I started surfing the web WELL before most people had a home computer, let alone fucking DSL.
I was on TOTSE before a lot of people had a personal home computer or internet.
My god, back in my day the people you talked to were actually who they said they were, we'd have meet-ups and post pics afterwards, stay up all night on MSN, or AIM, or Yahoo, or even ICQ! The people I became friends with on the Totse IRC chat too!
We used to have threads with anything from birth announcements to how to make PCP out of brick cleaner. It was GREAT.
Sadly, every kid in the world has some sort of internet capable computer, and with how affordable and necessary the internet is these days, everyone has it, so the vast ocean of information previously available has been replaced by morons who think lying on the internet is the thing to do.