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One thing people used to do online was look up retarded folk superstitions
on personal html webshrines.
Like dropping a spoon meant a baby would cry,
a fork meant a woman was coming, and a knife meant a man was coming.
Letting a bird in your house meant someone in the house would die pretty soon.
Such paranormal stuff was way more popular closer to 20 than 15 years ago.
You also couldn't just bring up just about any song you wanted to online then.
By 2008, you usually could,
but I'd say even as late as 2006 most songs weren't just there to bring up on YT.
It wasn't really a PROBLEM, though,
because everybody remembered songs in their heads and would buy CDs
then rip them in WMP like they still do from time to time.
The fact that people learned about music from the same general sources
back then
meant that most people at least knew the names of 50 Cent/Nickelback/John Mayer
even if a lots of them would never go near their stuff.
I'd say the PROBLEM was that most of us kept inside our whole teens
then some of us got to continue with this into our 20s
because our Moms sent us to college for four years
which left us neetified to the point where we'd have to spend
our mid twenties adapting to public interactions
(school doesn't have this or even begin to teach you any of this, even speech class)
then finally ending up with a warehouse job starting during our late 20s.
