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In the spirit of nostalgia, here's what millennials remember most from the internet era

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The web seemed simpler in the late ’90s and early ’00s cozier and more close-knit.

People used it mainly to email friends and family or to find people with similar interests on message boards and chat rooms.

People made fan websites for anything you can imagine.

Teens today can’t imagine not having 24/7 access to their social lives.

Back in the day , socializing online required both strategy and patience.

A zine magazine was a self-published email newsletter that went out to your followers.

Email digest groups were refreshed TWICE A DAY — all done via email.

Teens today would probably wonder why we didn’t just text.

"Teens will never understand the dancing baby/ Oogachacka Baby taking over the early internet," says Battista .

"Long before Giphy existed, we all had to create our own GIFs," says Lia Haberman .

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