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by RiverCrochet 56 days ago
> Perhaps if one was just the right age at just the right time, the Internet Was a Place, but for anyone before and anyone after it was just was and just is.

This is well put and I agree. I think there was a unique set of factors that made 1998ish-2006ish the prime time for the Internet to be a "place." The prevailing techno-optimism borne of the 90s was one of those factors.