What year was the golden age of internet?

The early 2000's. After it started getting too controlled and regulated by ISP's and big corporations it went downhill.

golden age of internet ended when the "let's play" cancer started swarming youtube and when facebook dominated every aspect of normies life
i was even forced to create a facebook account because my uni publishes important information there

Then you'll know internet is common here since the 90's.

This. Modern enough to do many things, but not spoiled yet other than some containment sites like myspace.

Sure, Anne

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social media ruined it.

>Login with Facebook

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This is how Windows looked the last time I used a PC.

t. phonefag.

2007/2008

After that it went to full normie shit with the explosion of facebook

Remember when nobody would use his real name online? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Everything changed with smartphones. All modern internet degeneracy is because of smartphones

Before that it was just dudes on computers

I still use Windows XP on a netbook to play Everquest and Fallout 2 on it. It's fun.

Who is Anne? Who the fuck are you talking to?

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how do we make normies leave the internet?

He has Schizophrenia, PTSD, Dementia and /his/trionic personality disorder.

Early-mid 2000s

Furries have been on the internet since usenet.

You don't. Just accept the fact that things eventually die and make way for new things to start. The internet changed and it'll just keep changing.

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Before social media

2000

Personal blogs, RSS, livejournal

el ANO frankANO

And chatrooms.

these

stop posting pictures of my soft & sweet gf, burger

no

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go to bed Jeff

2005-2012 imo

Before the centralization of the internet. So around 2003-2008.

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Surprisingly based and redpilled
That's when everything went to shit, zoom zoom

Jeff should stay.

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Jeff is a sister fucker

yeeet

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Before 2005 zoomers. Youtube was the beginning of the modern era.

back when I played teeworlds, 2008-2010

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>FidoNet

2001-2002

Im still using XP.

no you're not

2009 was when youtube started to become shit so i'll go with before then.

2005-2009

2005-2010
phpbb boards > everything else

This.

I don't know but holy fuck it has been absolute shit since 2013
I for one i'm in favor of article 13, may the internet die

1994-2002 when internet wasn't mainstream

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This is the right answer, people saying 2007 later are the people who destroyed internet culture

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all the shit like facebook and twitter only gained popularity after 2010

maybe in your country

Facebook became really popular around the end of 2008 here

Until 2007, from what I understand. Personally, I only really became familliar with internet culture in 2007, so for me, personally, I'd say 2007-2010 when social media became mainstream.

when I had no fear to download questionable (euphemism) porn and mp3s from bearshare, limewire etc.

when the risk was still worth the reward

>ywn browse orkut again

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Mid to late 90ies

when i went to log into youtube and was forced to log into my gmail(google)
logged into my gmail and had to provide a cellular phone number(for security)

it.was.over.

ZOOMER ZOOM ZOOM

2000-2006. When the internet was fun and numa numa was top tier meme.

>tfw it was 2004

youtube.com/watch?v=OE8WzYNRPNU

I feel so fucking old..

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You forgot Dota
youtube.com/watch?v=aTJncWndUB8

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2005-2010

Is yet to come...

Dial up aol 95-97

When newgrounds was still relevant, although hopefully now that tumblr ko'ed all the nsfw shit newgrounds might get a little revival.

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People from this era are middle-aged with families.

True. But it was good times. Damn good times.

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NOW YOU'RE GONE

I certainly miss playing dota with my e-friends but I don't miss dota one bit

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OH ALL I EVER WANTED
WAS TO SEE YOU SMILING
ALL I EVER WANTED WAS TO MAKE YOU MINE

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Any year pre-2007-2008. The Internet was less homogenized by major corporations, the games were better, and smartphones barely existed.

05

Any time from advent of world wide web to the introduction of smart phones. Once smart phones grew popular then the floodgates were opened and every idiot and normie migrated online

Before the popularization of social media and the rise of smartphones so between 2004-2008.

2008 is the peak of everything and from then on things went to shit(with the economies aswell)

I remember MSN,CS 1.6(and its modded content such as surf,zombie mod,zombie escape in cs source too),writting Anime Fanfics,watching newgrounds animations,etc

depends, what shade of shit resembles gold the most?

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