@OP
idk if it was more fun or if I was just less mature, but since each user had a part in building the internet in that we, GenX, had to teach boomers how to use the internet, that Usenet wasn't their email, regularly helping them repair their windoze Fisher-Price interface botnet machines, how to burn CDs, there were less monopolies... but now all that hardware is landfill and most of you have computer phones and that's kinda depressing, along with people's brains being rewired to be dependent to algorithmic addiction. The only positives since then are faster speeds at lower prices on both the hardware and networking side.
And I get to reminisce of music that was alive. Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdXjm8pZMws