It was a great time. Social media’s reached beyond that though. Grandma wasn’t online back then.
Yes, but - there were lots of people who got online in other to blog. Livejournal, blogspot and others were the reason some of their mothers did get online. It was that mainstream!
The point should be connecting people to other people and their creativity, not just connecting people to content which may or may not be vomited out by generative AIs.
*You changed your post and now mine doesn't make sense anymore. I forgive you but don't do it again.