I'm glad Bitcoin has become so main stream, but I do miss the days of being able to type your BTC address into a random website and then *POOF* some BTC pops into your wallet. I should have listened and kept my coins off the exchange but here we are. Just happy to be back in the space again
I miss faucets so much either. They were simple, clean and fast to claim. You just needed to solve a captcha (which didn't take longer than few seconds), click the claim button and the satoshis were already sent to your wallet. There were 5, 10, 30 minutes, hourly, 6, 8 and 12 hours faucets. Two faucet runs a day and you were already done! 100.000 satoshis in your wallet without a high of effort and commitment! It wasn't that much in dollar prices back then, but pretty enough to start a solid journey in crypto universe from zero for a young person full of energy, willingness and optimism!
Then we had the "investments" opportunities, which ended being scam ponzi and hyip schemes aiming to steal the money from the micro earners. I remember losing money to those fake cloud mining services, which generated income in real time or once in a month (I think there was one which paid every 3 months as well).
Oh, but the faucets were so good, and there were so many of them. Some were pretty original and unique on their features... I will always remember about those days with a lot of nostalgia.