early 2000s internet > modern internet

i'm not talking about internet itself, like speed or graphics or whatever, i'm talking about the experience of going online in the early 2000s.  smartphones weren't even on anyone's radar.  most people didn't have a phone at all, until the mid 2000s crept up on us, and even then, they were kinda rare.  anyone who had an internet-capable flip phone in 2005 remembers the absolute PANIC of accidentally hitting the internet connect button xD.  internet today is like "i need to be utterly connected at every possible moment.  if i go more than 4 minutes without texting or DMing someone, i will literally die.  i have 17 different social media apps and i have to carefully cultivate my online personality to get as much clout as possible."  it's STRESSFUL.  internet in the early-mid 2000s?  okay, i'm home from school.  time to get online.  sits down at computer and turns it on.   hears the soothing sound of the hard drive buzzing through its seek test.  ahh, windows 95/XP startup noise!  accesses internet.  oh here it comes...dial up noise!  finally, connected.  starts up AIM (or msn messenger, or yahoo messenger, or ICQ, whatever your poison).  hey my best friend is online!!  spends 45 minutes talking about school, hanging out over the weekend, bitching about parents.  brb, your friend says.  you put up an away message and open internet explorer.  let's check myspace!!  oh wow, so many notifications!  that cute boy commented on your pic.  it's a good day.  takes an hour or so to look up pics, cursors, blinkies, and blingees for your page.  you're coding that html like a motherfuckin BOSS.  you browse hot topic's website to see if they have any new tripp pants.  you still have some more time to kill -- let's go to geocities and make a website!!  you've been meaning to start up that slipknot+kittie+korn fan page for a while now.  aw man, that black and red background that looks like blood flames?  fuckin SICK.  your KaZaA download of marilyn manson songs finishes -- no viruses this time?  awwww yessss.  wait, wtf?  MOOOOMMMM, GET OFF THE PHOOOOOONEEEE, IM ONLIIIINEEEEE!!! >:-(.  she wants to call your aunt.  your glorious time surfing the ol' World Wide Web comes to an end for today.  things were easier, things weren't toxic at every fucking turn, social media behemoths weren't aggressively datamining you and everyone else six ways to sunday, your operating system wasn't a pile of laggy bloatware.  i know it seems dumb that i'm waxing poetic for the days of yore this hard, but here we are anyway.