>>17773746Growing up in the late 90s-ealry 00s, the internet was almost exclusively NA and Western EU people.
The good thing was that pretty much everyone was a newfag, and because the internet was so new, everyone was just exploring. There was no single video hub like Youtube so you had to go to different webtsites for video content, the most common was Newgrounds. The internet was also a seperate sphere from the real world so everyone was just an anon and treated themselves like an alias to their IRL counterpart. Social media obviously ruined this, as everyone now treats the internet as an extension of themselves.
The internet was also extremely unregulated, the cops didnt know what to make of it. You could casually stumble on CP on a random website, or just a video you downloaded from Limewire/Kaazaa.
In chat hubs, you would have pedos everywhere, but there would also be teenage girls who would casually flash their tits for you if you asked them.
Overall 90% of the time you used the internet was just to find cheat codes for GTA2 or Age of Empire, or play Counter Strike 1.6, or watch Stickdeath videos. You couldnt spend all day because every hour online costed money and parents would freak out cause you also blocked the phone line.
But like you said, no third world trash existed on the internet yet. It was an exlusive US/CA and Western EU sphere.