All this 90's culture that I was too small to be a part of gives me that para-nostalgia for a time I never experienced. The stories of the hackers and newsgroups and BBSes. I was but a child looking on, passively absorbing it. Were these companies ever not monsters, their products ever moral? We joked about them being evil but they truly seem worse now? The 'dark patterns' of addiction and abuse and flagrant use of your 'data' against you to their profit and surveilance and empowering the powerful. What they are optimized for seems different, but maybe I was just naive then.