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1996 ~ 2009.
The bracket of that time period for the internet was beautiful. It offered exploration, it encouraged people to be more interactive. But as time went on after 2009, things became more stagnant and manufactured. It was a gradual, slowburn process until 2016 where it felt like a gunshot was fired. Then that projected us into a period of the internet where everything was destined to be shit at every turn.
Can't go around many places without making an account, people are just absolute bastards by nature, people pretending they know everything like they're walking wikis, websites have soulless designs where everything is flat, everything has to have stupid drop down menus, have to bother you about cookies that it forces you to accept, grayed-out screens, tip-toeing the lines of what's acceptable to be posted and on and on.
The only thing about the internet today that's getting better is the speed, but nothing else.