I’m not sure if this is considered “early internet”, but it was StumbleUpon. There was always something interesting. You could browse interests and see other users who liked them. I looked at the Farscape category and a few people had added it. I sent a message to one of them who had a few other similar interests and we became pretty good internet friends. Turns out she was a Brazilian girl. We had nearly daily chats on MSN messenger for a couple years. Every once in a while I remember her and hope she’s doing okay. I still find it crazy that I was able to connect with another Farscape fan all the way down in Brazil in the early 2000s.
I would say the height of StumbleUpon would be the late 00s through the early 10s, so not the early Internet. I think a better term would be “the early-middle Internet”, if anything, if we’re to assume today is the middle Internet (which I personally think is fairly reasonable).
I’m not sure if this is considered “early internet”, but it was StumbleUpon. There was always something interesting. You could browse interests and see other users who liked them. I looked at the Farscape category and a few people had added it. I sent a message to one of them who had a few other similar interests and we became pretty good internet friends. Turns out she was a Brazilian girl. We had nearly daily chats on MSN messenger for a couple years. Every once in a while I remember her and hope she’s doing okay. I still find it crazy that I was able to connect with another Farscape fan all the way down in Brazil in the early 2000s.
I would say the height of StumbleUpon would be the late 00s through the early 10s, so not the early Internet. I think a better term would be “the early-middle Internet”, if anything, if we’re to assume today is the middle Internet (which I personally think is fairly reasonable).