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Were this the ‘good ole times’ they always talk about? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by fastandcurious@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

00s internet before corporations colonized it was beautiful. I'm deeply sad that it's gone but thankful that I got to participate.

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Amazon: 1994

eBay: 1995

Match.com: 1995 (same parent company as tinder)

Hotmail: 1996 (MS owned in 1997)

Google: 1998

PayPal: 1998 (eBay owned in 2002)

If you look at the dot com bubble, there's a lot of corporate colonization in the 90s. Many of them didn't survive their stock crashing in 2000 (pets.com is a good example). Some things were not able to be launched until the internet infrastructure supported it properly (YouTube, for example), so yes some things do date to the 00s. But largely, by 1998, the internet was already on its current trajectory.

The reason Google was so disruptive at the time was that they didn't charge websites to get listed -- it was a business model that relied on actually finding what people were searching for. The fact that this model was disruptive at the time tells you how corporate it was even by then.