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I don't miss anything about it. And certainly not the modem dial sounds I knew from memory/intuitively.
Imagine having to dial into the internet and having to wait 30s with beeping and whooshing sounds.
/e: It seems OP question was stated more broadly than the linked article addresses and people seem to reply to.
It being much less busy with the general populace and corporation
I miss the days before it became all corporatized. The days of the early world wide web and gopher made the internet a whole lot of fun. I had a blast with usenet and internet relay chat as well. Even email was freaking awesome. I remember getting excited when I'd receive messages. Thankfully that excitement is getting rekindled due in a large part to corporate's own hubris. The growth of the fediverse is making the internet fun again.
IRC and playing Warcraft βonlineβ by dialing my friendβs house. One time we messed with a telnet client. That was neat.
You guys remember pMachine (evolved into ExpressionEngine)? That shit blew my mind when I got it installed. No more Adobe Pagemaker.
Did anyone else play digimon quest to save the net? That was one of the first online games I played on dial up.
I remember when you could use a credit card generator (I actually learned whatever "algorithm" to create valid Visas as a party trick) and sign up for porn sites for free. Then you could download a crappy, compressed, ten second video if you waited for what seemed like forever.
Now that I think about it, that aspect of it was terrible. Thank goodness I'm alive now and didn't die before free HD porn was readily available on tap.
I do miss ICQ. And running BBS softwares.