Longtime webusers of lemmy, what’s your favorite memory from using the internet in the late '90s?What do you miss about the early web?

This. https://youtu.be/3KXF423TEwY?si=n8ExMrJJRQQHLjIP

This is the early internet - a self hosted, bunch of regular people just doing stuff for stuff's sake.

Also https://www.cockeyed.com - decentralized, zero budget fun.

In some ways, the low-medium technical barrier was perfect. If you could do some basic html or PHP, you were a creator.