https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59q9d5/how-to-see-what-your-twitter-feed-would-have-looked-like-in-2008

Ah, 2008. Barack Obama was elected the first black President of the United States. The Large Hadron Collider was officially completed. And Twitter was a more wholesome, conflict-free online community of mundane life updates. At least, that’s what it seems like when you use a search function to see what everyone you are following today was tweeting 10 years ago.

Screengrab: Twitter Andy Baio, a technologist and the former CTO of Kickstarter, shared the search function on Twitter Thursday (note: if you’re on mobile, make sure to filter by “latest” for the timeline to work properly). Immediately, people were shocked at how much simpler Twitter was a decade ago. Sure there were no memes, or threads...but there was also no outrage, no spats. It was weirdly...pleasant.