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name the internet eras
- 1989-1993: Exclusive era, home to universities, corporate networks, tech geeks with money to burn, and little else
- 1993-1995: Post-Eternal September
- 1995-1997, 1997-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2003: The, uh... internet... getting not-small eras I don't have enough first-hand experience with these eras to describe them in specifics, all I ever did was look up game cheats and play Shockwave games
- 2003-2007: Wild(est) West era, a cultural boom thanks to affordable broadband and sites centered around user-made content, such as Newgrounds and YTMND
- 2007-2013: "Eternal September Part II" where the iPhone got released, social media exploded, and sites started pandering to the lowest common denominator
- 2013-2017: Online culture war era where everything nerd-related became unnecessarily politicized
- 2017-2020: IRL culture war era where the mainstream media spread this madness to the real world
- 2020-now: Post-lockdown era where everyone is extremely online now