What will be the "back in my day" of the millennial generation?

As I'll be a whole lot older, I'd probably talk way too slowly and too much that my grandkid will fall asleep.

Back in my day, we were over consumed by the internet. At that point it was way less controlled and censored. We experienced the very beginnings of the downfall of anonymity. What would happen is that they'd have a list of IPs and stuff, your name wasn't printed and organized into profiles like everyone now. We didn't have a net border ID that tied our real identities to the internet either. It was all in 2D too...kinda if I'm saying that right . Facebook was just a website that you could watch videos on and look at images etc by scrolling up and down; it was way less interactive and we didn't have any VR/AR Facebook and Skype cafés. I probably scrolled more miles than I ever ran in my life.

People were starting to get kind of crazy too. It was uncensored and not controlled outside of personal company images, that there was access to real unreliable content that made people crazy. People were so divided on politic issues they barely knew about but believed anyway. It was the digital age of confirmation bias that probably led to where we are now. News outlets would rely on clicks, shares, and likes to determine what "good" content was. That stuff got manipulated so much by computer software or bots that it completely changed everyone's political opinions to the point that it influenced more war and separation in the world. That in my opinion is how WW3 in the 2020s began

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