The best things on the internet in 2020 Illustration: Natalie Peeples 3 We were all online more than we’d have liked this year. All the time we were meant to spend at dinner or the movies was instead spent scrolling for news—good news, bad news, what’s the difference? The president tweets and we sigh. The president tweets and we laugh. The president tweets and Twitter slaps a label on it. A musician we like livestreams a concert and it’s not the same. Some actors are reuniting on Zoom. That’s nice. And boring. Our smartphone’s screen-time notifications began to feel accusatory. This was 2020, and it sucked.