old school socials

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I'm 23, so I was still a kid during the golden age of the 2000s net, but I had plenty of access to it.
from my memories: it was the wild wild west. the net was significantly less censored and moderated, which meant awful graphic content if you went to the wrong corners of the net, and it was awful easy to.
there wasn't much drama. sure, people got called out, but BARELY, suprisingly. and well, more things were allowed back then, so there wasn't much to call out for unless an user had like murdered people or something.

fandom-wise, I remember it with great joy. people do say it was 'cringy and awful', and I would agree on the 'cringy' part, but not awful. fandoms were thightly knit communitites with little to no boundaries to the celebrities being admired, and if you were into fictional animated characters, r34 wasn't too hard to bump into, again, less moderation. so being a kid was a bit of a nightmare and fandoms weren't kids spaces. kids had things like websites of kid shows, club penguin, poptropica and so on.

overall the old school web wasn't the beautiful thing people make it out to be. it had many bad things that sometimes weighed alot over the good ones, but if I could bring back something GOOD from it would be the tight, close communities and how open they were for everyone. maybe with the moderation of today's social landscape.

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