> Maybe its rose-tinted goggles for me, but I feel like the internet was a better place (and encouraged a healthy relationship with technology) when it was a place you "went" instead of something thats with you all the time, always connected.
In my experience the difference was rather that a lot of internet users of this generation were radically pro-privacy, and very opposed to any centralized service (they were willing to teach you a lot about setting up your own internet applications, websites or web applications under the promise that you don't use a centralized web platform and you delete your accounts there).
In my experience the difference was rather that a lot of internet users of this generation were radically pro-privacy, and very opposed to any centralized service (they were willing to teach you a lot about setting up your own internet applications, websites or web applications under the promise that you don't use a centralized web platform and you delete your accounts there).