Internet eras

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>>60125581
How does it feel to be a millennial?

>>60125607
Are you over 35?

>>60125610
Are you under 35?

>>60125618
Yeah

What exactly is wrong with my breakdown though?

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>>60125625
>2001-2006: Classic Era.
>2001-2006:
>Classic Era.

>>60125625
The internet existed before 1995
Internet forums existed before 1995
Your arbitrary line shows that you are too young to have experienced the "Dot Com Era"

>>60125653
You're retarded. No one had the means to casually access internet before that. KYS

The era when broadband first became pervasive and privacy was less invasive. Being able to look at illegal shit on /b/ was the best of times.

>>60125581
for me it's 2004-2010ish, the best internet era

>>60125581
1995 - 2005

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1956 - ???? Project Intergalactic Network, Project ARPANET

1973 - 1992: BBS Era

1993 - 1999: AOL/Netscape/Dial-up, Era

2000 - 2007: Best Era

2008 - 2012: The Beginning of The End

2013 - Now: Web 2.5/Web 3.0 Era (Really makes you want to go back to 2007, doesn't it?)

>>60125581
1998, the year i discovered hentai

>>60125610
35 is Generation Y idiot

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>>60125581
What was your fondest internet year and the websites that you used to frequent?

>2002
>Totse, YTMND, battle.net, gamefaqs, Fark, geocities
I'm a pleb I know

Dot com era and the decade before. Things were simpler back then, and it was easier to avoid being spied on anywhere you go

>>60126132

You seem to have pinned the beginning of the end and the best era correctly.

Classic era was by far the most comfy time.
I spent all my time on weird ass forums back then.

>>60125581
Pre 2000 was the best era. No normies, no girls, no commercial interests everywhere. Normies ruined it forever.

>>60126524

No normies, no girls, no commercial interests everywhere

No anything at all too.

95-2000

you could literally get rich overnight by making a web page with a porn affiliate link and spamming altavista with it.

my first pay check at 18 was over $30k

>>60126866
>No anything at all too.
Stop talking about things you know nothing about little boy. Pre normie internet was a wonderful place.

>>60126196
...which are millennials

>Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe are widely credited with naming the Millennials.[1] They coined the term in 1987, around the time children born in 1982 were entering preschool, and the media were first identifying their prospective link to the new millennium as the high school graduating class of 2000.[2] They wrote about the cohort in their books Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069 (1991)[3] and Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation (2000).[2]

>In August 1993, an Advertising Age editorial coined the phrase Generation Y to describe those who were aged 11 or younger as well as the teenagers of the upcoming ten years who were defined as different from Generation X.[4][5] According to Horovitz, in 2012, Ad Age "threw in the towel by conceding that Millennials is a better name than Gen Y",[1] and by 2014, a past director of data strategy at Ad Age said to NPR "the Generation Y label was a placeholder until we found out more about them".[6]

>>60125581
If I ever make a website I'm goint to go full HTML 2.0 and nothing more advanced than that.

I miss being a middle school kid masturbating to striptease videos on youtube.

>>60126866
>No anything at all too
Quite the contrary in fact, the internet was primarily made up at that time of actual content and information produced by individuals in accordance with their own interests and hobbies.

It was a much more fascinating and worthwhile place. And there were girls, and everything/everyone in general was much more open rather than all the walled gardens and ridiculous social network bullshit we have now. The internet was a place to meet people outside of those you interacted with in everyday life, rather than being solely an extension of such.

Advertising/commercial interests, consolidation, and social networking are the cancer that killed the internet.

>>60125581
>2001-2006: Classic Era.
by far the best time to be alive on the internet
>all the capitalist cucks had their tails between their legs after getting assraped by dotcum bubble and 9/11
>yes there were ads but you could block popups and other ads just as easily back then. even so the situation wasn't totally out of control inb4 someone mentions youareanidiot.com
>the point is the internet was no longer a guaranteed cashcow so the only people who were still in business really cared about and believed in the sites they were running instead of trying to make a quick buck or shamelessly pander to the lowest common denominator
>web was basically the wild west
>shock sites and general lack of instant gratification (slow speeds, no good search engines, etc) kept normies away
>IE6 and windows xp kept normies practically disabled anyway with new malware almost every day
>golden age of forums, all of which were comfy tight-knit communities of people with common interests and worldviews but with enough variety that it wasn't an echochamber hugbox
>dark humor and disturbing imagery abounded. edgy af by today's standards but it forced you to adopt a kind of cynical realism and be unable to bury your head in cat pictures and memes
>mozilla then firebird then firefox was actually good
>w3c was pushing web technologies forward without corporate influence
>most of all, if you knew what you wanted you could find it. if it didn't exist you could make it. if it wasn't what you expected you could change it. and along the way you'd make new friends and find new things. it was the best of times. it was the worst of times.

I want to go back ;~;

>>60129685
i agree. got internet at home in 2001 a month before 9/11 (cable!) and it was comfy af. things went south between 2008 and 2010 when facebook and twitter became dominant.