I’d say 2005-2015. Mature enough to be useful, but didn’t really go to shit yet.

  • Johannes Jacobs
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    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 don’t think thats possible now.

  • infyrian
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    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    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 catalogue was amazing on SoulSeek.

    I’m quite happy that movie distribution have evolved beyond blocky 1-2CD DivX;-) though.

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    Any time before 2005, when YouTube started the mass corporatization of the Internet (Web 2.0)