When was the "sweet spot" for the internet?
>>1075792661994 a few months before Windows 95 was released.
>>107579266like 2008-2012. personal websites/blogs were holding out and "web 2.0" was actually good. billions of retard shitskins didn't have internet access.t. 36 year old boomer
>>107579266When you're ages 10-14
>>107579266'97 - '07
>>107579291I'd say >>107579314 and '08 - '12 being the golden afterglow.
>>107579266When the userbase was made of nerds and the freedom we enjoyed up until ten years ago.
>>107579266Here? About 1995, would be slightly earlier in Ameriburgerland.
>>107579266When even the most degenerate stuff would have its own .com site
>>1075792662006 was the peak thats all I knowoh and everything turned to garbage after gamergate and the fappening back in 2014
>>107579266wow i'm glad i never used dial up
>>107579678the userbase stopped being majority nerds by 1995 at the latest, it just wasn't as apparent if you were a nerd because things weren't so well connected yet and non-nerds mostly confined themselves to stuff like reading the news and looking up flight times.
It was good before the mid 2010s. Early 2010s were still like the 2000s in terms of culture carrying over
These threads are all made by repost bots.https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/98894866/
>>107581507If this is done by the site itself, then why do this? It would drive away new potential long term users once they sniffed that out.If it's done by an NGO, then I get it: kill the site.
1996 - 2004That's a generous span btw, the tail end of that was shitty Web 2.0 bullshit and the middle was y2k popup corporate web hell.
2002 with a cable modem/dsl. Most websites were still dial up designed so they loaded really quickly. Now in 2025 despite having a connection over 3000 times more bandwidth websites are still slow if they use vibe coded js.
2004-2008 was probably the best on a web browser level. Safari and Firefox was literally destroying Internet Explorer 6 but then Google ruined it by coming out with Chrome which laid the foundation for the future, then in January 2009 the whole crypto industry started.
>>107579291This. The last time the internet was good was in early 2014. It's only been downhill from there. To me personally peak internet was 2010-2013.
2009-2018 was PEAK internet. Everything after is total brainrot and everything before was great, but not as good.
>>107579291"Web 2.0" was never good.
>>107579266the web plateaued around the time dhtml was consider aids. soon after ajax became common the web turned to shit. probably a coincidence
>>1075792661996 with Quakeworld
After internet speeds got to be pretty good, but before women started using it.So like 2003-2008
>>107579266Yesterday
