Yes it would. Looking back I think the time machine wouldn’t buy us more than those few years, though. The things that made it accessible, fun and (sometimes artificially, unnaturally) useful were the exact same things that made it easy to repurpose into the monstrosity it gradually became.
The Wild West period was scattered and had shitty accessibility. Companies like Google inevitably arrived to make the process of browsing smoother, but as of 2010 hadn’t started being evil yet. The alternate timeline that doesn’t suck probably would have involved email growing directly into a version of ActivityPub in the 90’s, and website dominance being bypassed entirely. (Although ISP struggles would have taken on a whole new dimension)
Yes it would. Looking back I think the time machine wouldn’t buy us more than those few years, though. The things that made it accessible, fun and (sometimes artificially, unnaturally) useful were the exact same things that made it easy to repurpose into the monstrosity it gradually became.
The Wild West period was scattered and had shitty accessibility. Companies like Google inevitably arrived to make the process of browsing smoother, but as of 2010 hadn’t started being evil yet. The alternate timeline that doesn’t suck probably would have involved email growing directly into a version of ActivityPub in the 90’s, and website dominance being bypassed entirely. (Although ISP struggles would have taken on a whole new dimension)