What is your favorite era of the Internet

[RE4-City]

I've been nostalgic of the mid 00s lately and remember being 10 and browsing a bunch of fan sites for Games like the Mario RPG games (Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario, and Mario & Luigi).

I remember the internet seeming to be more fun back in the day but that could just be me not browsing it as much back then and it feeling so much newer back then.
It's weird to think about a time when YouTube didn't exist, Myspace was the big deal (Even tho I didn't find out about this in 2007)
Twitter didn't exist. Lastly the internet just had a different vibe back then for better or worse.

All these things got me thinking, what would be the golden age of the internet? would it be the early 2000s to mid 2000s? YouTube not being apart of that era seems weird but was the late 00s internet the best? The rise of NeoGAF and the beginning of social media? But this is where so many ads starting to take over the internet imo.

Every time I think about this I feel like there is something swaying in my mind what would be considered my favorite era of the internet.
Then you get into the complications of weather it is nostalgia speaking or with all the lost media from this era that is forgotten about can a no biased comparison be made?

 

[TubzGaming]

 

[ksdixon]

Before Google fucked-up reflow page content upon pinch to zoom. Fucking arse holes!

 

[Ghaleon]

Late 90s into the 00s. Things weren't bad a little later, up until social media and smart phones devoured almost everything and flooded the net with normies and big business.

 

[voke]

early 2000s

 

[Nym]

Icon (even if you are soft on the JQ)

 

[emily144]

I honestly like evry era equally

 

[RE4-City]

early 2000s

Late 90s into the 00s. Things weren't bad a little later, up until social media and smart phones devoured almost everything and flooded the net with normies and big business.

Maybe it's just because I was born around the time the internet was invented (1994)
But leaving out the mid to late 2000s (2004 - 2008) just is too hard for me.

Early 2000s was amazing but IO cannot remember an internet before then. (To be honest I don't really remember the 90s at all.)

 

[KvallyX]

You might think I am kidding, but I am not...

 

[Boswollox]

Back when you could OP a f*ggot and not get banned.

 

[RE4-City]

Back when you could OP a f*ggot and not get banned.

What does OP mean?

 

[Boswollox]

What does OP mean?

Opening post/ original poster