Lovely article

@Koochi-Q "...incomprehensible to say where the internet actually starts and ends in our daily lives and how it affects people..."

Read this: https://thoughtcatalog.com/jacob-geers/2015/12/this-profound-tumblr-post-explains-why-90s-kids-are-endlessly-obsessed-with-the-90s/

There was also another post somewhere on Tumblr that went more indepth into how the internet has slowly become more and more invasive and pervasive. Basically someone started off with missing the nostalgia of the early 90s internet, where advertising wasn't really as common there, everything was anonymous and user friendly, and you could basically find a niche for every interest online. 

Another user then commented on how everything has changed, and you don't necessarily miss 90s internet, you miss the internet before it made everything a commodity to be sold to someone else. Your personal information and data usage? Now a commodity. Your interests? A commodity, a chance to sell you things related to your interest. The apps you use turn your time into a commodity that can be sold to other companies through ads and pervasive marketing. Games that function on a stamina system, or time related recharge, will sell you time for you to keep playing. The internet has slowly turned every part of someones personality, or time, into an easily marketable, profitable product that you pay for. 

There's also the recent trend of having all your personal information set up as your social media account. Facebook and Twitter are big companies that not only want you to put all of your personal information into their hands, they'll also market that TO YOU as something good. Facebook marketed it to everyone back in the early 2000s as a way to "reconnect with people you've grown out of touch with", and Twitter does the same. Now it's not uncommon for employers to ask for your Facebook or Twitter because of this pervasive notion that both of those sites should showcase the best YOU, despite the fact growing up social media was usually anonymous and could be made for quite literally anything. In turn, Twitter and Facebook will take this personalized data you gave them, and sell it to other companies, who in turn will pay Facebook for not only your data, but ALSO the right to send you personalized advertisements for a greater chance of you buying things. 

The user then ended their post with the saying, "Nothing in life is truly free. One way or another, you end up paying for what you're getting." You don't miss 90s internet, you miss when there was a distinct lack of advertisements on websites, when anonymity was the norm and sites didn't ask for your personal info, when you weren't unwillingly selling your personality to outside companies who in turn tried to sell you things, among other pervasive things.