2012 was a peculiar year. It was the last year of the "Old Internet." In 2012, we still used RSS feeds. Netflix was still mailing DVDs alongside streaming. YouTube wasn't yet fully corporatized. Brave arrived right as physical media was dying but before streaming fragmentation made us lose track of what we owned.
The Brave browser aimed to:
"Beautiful," Elias whispered. It was ugly, objectively terrible design, but to him, it was an artifact. brave 2012 internet archive