Hundreds of people on the popular gaming platform Discord started a server where they just send each other the letter "h" all day every day. After several years of concerning headlines about misinformation, election meddling, filter bubbles, online harassment and more, there are flickers of a more carefree -- and weird -- internet. At times it felt like a throwback to a more innocent web, when Dancing Baby filled our inboxes, Second Life took on a life of its own and Rickrolling was an ever-lingering threat. And all it took was a devastating pandemic that forced many in the United States and around the world to live their lives almost exclusively online for much of the past year. "This last year has been super depressing and difficult, but it's also been really inspiring to me seeing what a great job human beings have done to find ways to make the best of this tough situation."

Source: CNN March 12, 2021 13:52 UTC