Its somewhat telling that as much as we like to reminisce about the early internet, none of us actually use the parts of the internet that emulate that era.
The internet now is better by just about every metric. Its just not the internet of our teenage years, so like geezers in perpetuity back to the beginning of time we Luke things better how they were when we were teenagers, even if reality doesn't agree with those fond memories.
I really miss that feeling, it's a rarity nowadays.