1998, the internet was a wonderful place back then. I have made some deep connections with people i havent seen yet, but i still talk to them regulary. I donβt think thats possible now.
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That soinds like it would be pretty epoch.
it would.
I'd send it back to 2006. This would be Pre-IPhone and therefore Pre-Smartphone as we know it today. Sure we'd lose out on the years where memes had their golden periods, but I would rather have a time of the internet that encouraged exploring and communities with good comradery than people just speaking meme talk.
Null. Back to when it didn't exist. This was a mistake.
The time when people were doing strange and funny websites by cut and paste design on Geocities and Angelfire, new music was found on MySpace, vinyl rips of rare obscurities were posted on blogs you follow in Reader and expanding your music catalogue was amazing on SoulSeek.
I'm quite happy that movie distribution have evolved beyond blocky 1-2CD DivX;-) though.
Definitely before 2016, agreed
November 21st 1998 at 20:38pm ET and it stays there forever
2003, and hold it there.
peak newgrounds.
Anytime pre-facebook allowing signups to anything but .edu email addresses
Any time before 2005, when YouTube started the mass corporatization of the Internet (Web 2.0)