“Badger, badger, badger, badger…”: 20 trends millennials miss from the pre-social media internet

Millennials and older folks have been reminiscing about the early internet days, before social media and ads took over everything. Specifically, one Redditor asked them to recall 1991 to 2009—the time before modern social media sites changed the online landscape.

"People who used the internet between 1991 and 2009, what’s the most memorable online trend or phenomenon you remember?" asked u/Original_Act_3481 in November.

u/Original_Act_3481 via Reddit

Much of that time occurred before even MySpace arrived on the scene...