What was your favorite era of the Internet? >1989-1994: Primitive

>>38467428
Somewhere between Classic and Independent Media Era.
Those were wholesome times.

>>38467428
Hey, you stole my name.

2005 and 2006.Still the classic era but you had good speeds available and more modern websites and games popping up.
As often discussed on here 2007 was the beginning of the end, with 2012 being the end. Maybe thats what the Mayan calendar was predicting.

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>>38467428
>2001-2006: Classic Era
>2007-2013: Independent Media Era
the best times

I stopped going on GaiaOnline around 2005. I found out about 4chan around 2007.

Having a 1999/2000/2001 join date on an Internet forum makes you looks pretty neato. Too bad I wasn't born 10 years earlier.

>>38467581
>>38467479
But the indie era was when things began to go downhill especially during the second half with cancer like Let's Plays and Minecraft taking off

>>38467428
2007 was the best year for vidya. After that, everything started decaying online, including vidya. But maybe with vidya getting good again, we could return to glory.

>>38467619
The internet is larger than just YouTube.

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>>38467428
>Classic Era
I want to go back desu.

I can't say I miss any internet era. I just miss being a kid and hanging out with my friends at school.

>>38467428
dot com bubble was the best

Independent era.

Is the era which i was born in net. Enjoying pre-facebook social networks and playing Neopets in the whole ffree time.

>>38468434
Facebook was already getting big by 2007 and Neopets was already dead by that year

>>38468448
Facebook only really got powered in 2011/12 in Brazil here. At 2010 everyone used another one, Orkut, which is now dead.
And maybe thats not the gold age of Neopets, but I spent my whole sundays into this shit

>>38467428
usenet ofc

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I like how you named all the eras without being insulting or naming one of them "golden age" or inclusive like that.

And I kinda like the now age. Sure it's not as "wild west" as before but it's very easy to use and more people are on. Even if I don't talk to people constantly it's nice to find friends online or reconnect with someone States or even countries away and have a trove of ways to do it with ease.

Also porn.

>>38467428
literally my desktop right now

>>38467428
My favourite time were the dot com bubble era and the classic era (also known as the flash era). The first time I experienced the internet was on the dot Com bubble era in 1998. Which had geocities and various forums. It was more irc like oriented and communities were more private and secluded. There was also shit like Napster to download music and files. It was also the time when google didn't exist so we had other search engine such as Ask to rely on. It was harder to find stuff since the internet wasn't normie friendly back then so we had to look hard to find any good quality rip of anything. It was also easier to get viruses since people downloaded various exe files on their computer. There was also shocking material such as rotten.com and some classic trojan infested website that played flash files on your computer that was aimed to annoy you and you couldn't close it unless you shutdown and reinstalled your system. There was those early memes such as Dancing baby, Don't Copy that floppy and Hamsterdance which were viral. People created blogs and created various colored gif and the internet felt like a new dimension to navigate it with either AOL browser, Netscape or internet explorer. Something awful was one of the place for the early images macros and internet phenomena as it launched in 1999. Then the flash era started with the birth of Newgrounds, YTMND, Ebaumsworld, Myspace, 4chan being in it early day as an anime based imageboard (Before the internet hate machine). I used to spend my time downloading shit on limewire and playing various flash games (which one of them was the early prototype of Club Penguin in 2003). YouTube launched in 2005. Which had lot of notepad tutorials and blog videos in it early days. I rely started to notice change in the internet on two occasion which was the death of web 1.0 and when the smartphones became popular in somewhat 2009-2010. 2012 being the point of no return. It was an unique time to be alive.

I didn't even have a connection until like 2005 and even then it was dial-up, I feel left out.

2007-2013 era, although social media was still big back then and the internet was already very unprivate. I was too young in the previous eras, tho, I bet they ruled.

>>38467428
Does anyone remember back around 2000 when Yahoo, or some other site, had some online games in primitive 3d graphics?

In one of them, you control an octagon who moves across platforms in space. In another you play as a racer who drives across a very blocky looking landscape with funky green colors.

Anyone remember these games specifically and could tell me their names?

>>38467428
Since all of these eras are roughly in 5-year chunks, does that mean we'll see another Internet era emerge around 2020?

http://www.strawpoll.me/13474362/

The end of the primitive web era was just about perfect.

Enough global users that services went beyond academia/geekery but not yet at a point where you could buy "internet in a box" from a supermarket.

All of it. Because throughout all the eras there was always porn.

>>38470028
"And the internet is simple to install"

>>38467428
06-09 for me. Youtube in its infancy, 4chan at its height, newgrounds, ytmnd, even reddit in its beginning wasn't awful.

>>38467428
1980-1991.
Best discussions
Text only/vast majority of the times
No normies/plebians.
Early www was pretty neat too. Nowadays its ok, better than it was in 00s.

the primitive web was the best