Being able to find weird crackpot sites where people post their alien encounters, ghosts, cryptid sightings and astral projection blogs. Being able to find bizarre sites in general.

Now you search for stuff like that it's all the same copy-paste articles from BuzzFeed and Vice all with the same "top 10 weird alien stories to keep you up at night!" articles they all copy from each other.

https://fusionanomaly.net/TechNode.html is a great relic of that weird internet era and is probably the only site of its kind that is still around.