Comment by RajT88
3 days ago
It felt bigger because of a few things:
1. The world felt farther away. It was much harder to learn current events about far away places, and talk to people there.
2. The number of websites you spend most of your time on has shrunk. Facebook/Insta/TikTok is a lot of people's entire internet diet.
Yeah, the internet felt more like an unexplored place then. Now it feels like a service to access some other services, but back then, it felt like a real world that could contain anything.