The internet's been around for a while now, but when would you say it was at its prime?



Personally, I'd say sometime around the 2006-2010 period. MMO'S all felt fresh. Online gaming wasn't yet fully contaminated by CoD. We had Star Wars kid and all the classic, unforgettable music videos like Numa Numa and Chocolate Rain were out around the early years of that period. YouTube was just starting to rise to mass popularity. It's the time when meme's started to pop up just about everywhere (before they were overdone) and by 2010 we had Double Rainbow guy, Best Cry Ever, Trollololol amongst a tonne of awesome auto tuned songs. It feels like the internet just stopped being as awesome after 2010...

 

The year 3032

 

1995-1999



AOL was easily hacked. You could get into almost anyone elses account quite easily. I had much fun during those years.

 

I remember when conference calls where mindblowing







Kids these days

 

I would also say 1995-1999.



eBay was created. If you were there early on things were insanely cheap. Everything I bought on eBay for a few years was at 90+ percent discounts.

Paypal started, making online payments less sketchy.

Google launched their search engine.

Napster meant free music in a time when I was a member of BMG and Columbiahouse, spending hundreds of dollars a year on CD's because I wanted a single song.



Almost everyone on the internet was intelligent. Primarily nerdy types. Now every idiot is online.





Don't get me wrong, I love the content available today and I don't miss 14.4k connection speeds, but the internet was pretty great at that time.