@archaeme the 90s were a period of exploration when the web was just a toddler. Until the late 90s there were few adverts on the web. Also I remember the amazement of being able to communicate with people on the other side of the world, and play chess against them. That's unremarkable now, but at the time was totally new. It was also a period of reflection upon my own culture. For the first time there were competing narratives from other places about the same events, and the local state propaganda began to become visible.