Digging through the Wayback Machine last night and it hit me different

I was looking up an old Geocities page I made back in 1998 about my pet iguana. Nothing special just a bunch of neon text and a guestbook. But then I noticed the page had 47 unique visitor hits total. That blew my mind because today a single TikTok from my niece gets like 10,000 views in an hour. It really put into perspective how small and niche the web used to be. Anyone else ever run across something from their own history that made you stop and think?

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kevin_roberts4119d ago

Oh come on. It's a Geocities page about an iguana. 47 hits for a pet lizard page sounds about right. The internet wasn't "small and niche" it was just boring and hard to use back then. Nobody wanted to look at someone's pet iguana in 1998 because nobody even knew what a computer was yet. Your niece's TikTok gets 10,000 views because the content is actually watchable and the algorithm shoves it in people's faces. The old web wasn't some magical intimate experience it was just slow and ugly. You're romanticizing a time when nobody was online because it cost $4 a minute for dialup.

olivia57319d ago

@kevin_roberts41 it's the same with everything people claim was better before - they're not missing the slow loading times or bad graphics, they're missing being young and everything feeling new.