It has an impact on everything we do on the internet.
One website, StumbleUpon, is the focal point of 31-year-old freelance writer Kaitlyn Arford’s recollections of her early online encounters. Arford is situated in Kentucky, USA.
“Any time I had a moment where I didn’t know what to do with myself, I would jump on StumbleUpon in our school’s little computer lab,” she recalls. “It was a way to discover things I would have never known existed—it was so joyful and fun in a way that websites just aren’t anymore.”
Prior to Facebook’s Newsfeed and TikTok’s For You Page, StumbleUpon was a website (and eventually a browser extension) created in 2001 that led users down the rabbit hole of semi-random websites.
