The Early 2000s Weren’t Peak Humanity. They Were Peak Disconnection.
Everyone romanticizes the early 2000s as the internet’s golden age. But the nostalgia isn’t about the technology—it’s about the luxury of disconnection. We miss when the internet was a destination, not a 24/7 reality. The peak we mourn isn’t digital superiority; it’s the loss of our own unmonetized attention.