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What years would you say fit these categories for the internet

Primordial/Mythical Age:

Stone Age:

Bronze Age:

Iron Age:

Classical/Antiquity:

Medieval:

Renaissance/Enlightenment:

Modern:

I think the modern age of the internet starts in 2014. But that's just my take.

Classical i would go with mid 2000 ytp and rage comics

Primordial/Mythical Age: 1969, DARPA strings together two computers and makes them talk.

Stone Age: The 1970s. Unix and timesharing systems are invented.

Bronze Age: Late 1970s to early 1980s. Usenet is invented. Internet access is limited to universites.

Iron Age: 1982: RFC822 formalizes email. 1984: The internet settles on IP. 1988: Morris worm.

Classical/Antiquity: 1991: Al Gore allows commercial businesses on the Internet. 1993: Mosaic makes the World Wide Web look better.

Medieval: The late 1990s. The WWW and dial-up access causes a mass migration from BBSes to the Internet. Netscape vs. IE. Cookies, Java, Javascript, and Shockwave allow websites to be interactive. Ends with the dot-com bust.

Renaissance/Enlightenment: 2000-2006. The Internet recovers from the dot-com bust. A few popular websites stand out above the rest.

The Fall: 2007 to 2012. Every major website is quietly hijacked by government agencies.

Hellscape: 2012 to present. Governments control online narratives as much as they can and start knocking out websites they don't control to keep people on controlled platforms.

Pretty accurate, except it’s mostly big corperations, not the gov

Hellscape 2012-2019

Something worse in 2019-…

Both if we really want to be accurate here.

I prefer to have an optimistic outlook. I hope we see a new renaissance

In different parts of the world, dark age began sooner. China, the fall began in 2002.