How Facebook Killed The Web's Incognito Days
The early days of the Web opened the doors to everyone’s interests. You might have thought you were the only one in the world thinking like you. But after a quick search on, say, AltaVista, you realized that there was an entire forum dedicated to the obsession of (add your [weird] interest). You could do whatever you wanted -- read, watch, and listen -- and nobody could follow what you did.
The early days of the Web opened the doors to everyone’s interests. You might have thought you were the only one in the world thinking like you. But after a quick search on, say, AltaVista, you realized that there was an entire forum dedicated to the obsession of (add your [weird] interest). You could do whatever you wanted — read, watch, and listen — and nobody could follow what you did.
Today, you’re more incognito going down to the record store to buy that Backstreet Boys album you secretly love than listening to it on Spotify or watching a video on Netflix.
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