I have no opinion. I do not recall anything news worthy happening before 2010 because I only cared about my cartoons airing and being given sweets
There are legal girls (over 15) that were born AFTER Minecraft was released, time keeps going
I do not remember anything culturally but I remember echos of past tech solutions

Whatever I recall from my earliest memories related to computers and internet - I miss how basic some things were and encryption and obfuscation and firewalling in general was nothing compared to today. I could break stuff by queries after the ? sign or SQL injection because some places did not verify properly permissions before letting the action go or stuff was client side and the server did not verify. Stealing cookies was enough to get admin access because nobody cared to implement sessions.

Online games were fun, I remember abusing mechanics or scripting to go around with an OP bazooka and have unlimited ammo instead of 10 per respawn and instant reloads. A lobby of 20 people would all quit within 3 minutes
Or crawling, jumping and doing whatever to squeeze through textures in a map to go underneath it and one-way shoot everyone else because I could see what was going on up above the ground, but they could not see me through the ground texture. And the same way damage went only one way, so when I started losing I would do just that to show them who is the king of K/D
There was another buggy but fun game where you could make an account to save progress and it would prompt you to enter password to log in. Even if you gave a wrong password it would tell you it is wrong in-game and for some reason it sent a packet containing the real unencrypted password and that is how you could use anyone's account. Kids were shitting themselves and quitting when you told them their password in chat. Now nothing works this way.

I had fun in CS doing the query thingy and scanning the whole CS network for active lobbies and even on-going privately hosted games by people and I loved breaking into random people's lobbies and even games that explicitly were set to invite-only and I enjoyed playing with them. They fixed it in 2017 I think. Even if they kicked me out of their lobby I had the exact query I needed to bypass the ban and come back as many times as I wanted until they made a new one and I had to do hit or miss to find them again. I am not sure what valve was thinking. And I was able to scan for lobbies because the number increased and it was tied to a timestamp of lobby creation and not even encrypted. I was inspired by the "duk" guy would break into global tournament lobbies and I actually made a good friend this way. Lost contact with him almost a decade ago.

I once had fun in elementary and made a few computers open the CD station once every few minutes because I was a mean kid. Now school computers are so locked down that you can't do much. When I was finishing high school there was some education ministry proxy to block porn and games and cheating resources, and also windows user account's permissions were so limited that I could not run anything that is not approved by the teacher's computer. Eventually gave up breaking it and evaded the firewall by connecting my phone to the wifi, put my VPN over it, and broadcasted the signal back to the computer. But I also somehow got a VPN client to run there as if it were approved but I don't remember what I did. I made two school computers my personal residential IP proxies to evade bans and make throwaway accounts but now they don't respond so they probably got formatted. I remember that ancient prank where you screenshot your victim's desktop, then delete all contents of the desktop, and make that screenshot a wallpaper and the guy cries that he can't open his folders. It was my favorite.

I think the true form of current internet began in 2016. Kids were going around with their fortnite ninja blue hair and that annoying instagram filter with dogs, at that time everyone was explicitly banning raiding, youtube went to absolute shit, making throwaway or troll accounts was getting hard really fast and moderation got super strict around that time but that is my opinion. Bitcoin blew up among normalfigs and it was so cheap. KYC started getting implemented.

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