What was your favorite era of the Internet, robots? http://

Everything before web 2.0 with the fucking social media integration on every damn site.

>1995-2000: Dot-Com Bubble Era

No social media, everything was new and exciting. The beginning of ebay, AOL...

Now? youtube, which I need, and social media, which I despise cancel each other out, making the current era a wash. Twitter can suck a diseased donkey dick pulled out of a homeless cunt. Social media hashtag will be the death of us, as we saw earlier today with that beanstagrammer.

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the internet was coolest during 2001 - 2006, it was the true wild west where you could do anything
it was fun during 2007 - 2013 with more creators getting involved and more unique content

the problem now is that the frontier is closing up, everything is becoming commercialized, so many things are just copies of other things, much less originality out there, plus on most major sites IE youtube you can't post just anything, there are more and more rules all a result of the corporatization

there still are free spaces but they are closing up and I fear in the next few years they will be almost entirely gone

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Didn't get to experience it very much until 2006 because parents were poor (I'm not American, so I don't consider myself a part of the "Internet was a secret club until 2007" meme. In fact, my country is very internet-savvy, and my family was one of the last in my area to get internet). Don't have a fav era.

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reppin' that independent media era, 2009-2011
as it stands the current era is a blend of a lot of really good shit and a lot of just shit.

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Besides the democratization of content, the myopic and often cruel opinion that floats around like William Borroughs' The Word and the way the monitor just stifles creativity like lead pipes what pisses me off is the way you can search ANYTHING and know to expect the exact same site for 10 pages and it's always always a hideously overly-technical delineation of some simple thing.

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Probably 97-98 that's the first time I went online via dial up I've had broadband since 03 never looked back

Early 00s internet was a ride man. Miniclips and Newgrounds was my shit. I miss playing flashgames as a kiddo lads.