I was there, although I still wish I was there for earlier shit like the birth of the clock crew on newgrounds in 2001, certain game modding forums and pre-2006 4chan lol.
I dunno I was just a teenager back then, I miss them times on the net but I like my music collection, having my own place and not having to go school anymore and mostly being around a bunch of people I no longer associate with would just be fucking weird, I like having money and being able to fuck.
I just wish people had the same attitudes and netiquette, you couldn't get shit like g00ns or old anon anymore, "we do not forgive, we do not forget" fucking went straight out the window, everyone loves to suck authorities dick, they love the report button, they will throw away all their freedoms out of spite someone they ain't met on the other side of the fucking planet, people forgot "ARGUING OVER THE INTERNET IS LIKE RUNNING IN THE SPECIAL OLYMPICS - EVEN IF YOU WIN YOU'RE STILL RETARDED". Too much focus on just trendy crap and no focus on big creative stuff.

Back in them days the big media companies invested heavily into p2p clients to popularise them advertising them heavy then used the end of the CD Boom to try and push draconian laws to try and take control of content the internet that threatened their oligarchy, people stood up against it and the bills proposed were never taken seriously. Nowadays there's "algorithms" that favor absolute low effort content based solely on consumerism on whatever these giants shit out and there's no need for such dumb laws. The big "content creators" have multimillion contracts with networks that are owned by these media giants and it's even the case with social media pages. Flash was killed off by Adobe who were a sister of Apple because it threatened their Appstore which was huge money for their shitty ass games, instead of what ruffle does now and a genuine adaption that emulates Flash it was just purposely killed off, not before threatening NG with blacklisting them from ad servive to remove 100000 submissions for vague "copyright infringement" then blacklisting them anyway.

Another thing I miss is people hated unoriginal faggots like memes lasted a week max back then, they actually had some culture behind it like anime, I've just had to burn off quite a few people I speak to online because it's an absolute chore trying to speak to someone who can only fucking communicate in shitty ass 2015 A DECADE OLD already-outdated gentrified vine ebonics and shitty ass top text captions or just have this fucking "cynical" "ironic" stupid attitude where they come into whatever fucking group or hobby you have and pretend to be some normalfag who bitches constantly about every little thing, FUCKING GTFO THEN. This attitude really isn't a new thing at all but I seem to come across it 10 times as much now and it's just 10 times more grating.

The eternal september of 1993 happens and again the eternal summer of 2008 happens; I don't think those "old times" are over though at all, more people realise the wild west still lives outside big corporate and government walls, that shit isn't the internetz, this is. This is a spirit that can't be killed. Why care about the nowadays equivalent of myspace queens, why are you even seeing this here, stop looking to the past and focus your energy on this side, do something of real value and worth, the same reason I had no regard or exposure to a lot of the crap that was around back then, there's no reason to talk about it, we all know this and we make the good times happen here. I watched a youtube video of someone playing the Harbl_Hotel map for counter-strike source and these faggots all saying shit like "woahh this map is crazy I'm leaving what the hell is this, this is too much"; You aren't this person and whatever it is with drawing, animation, music, maps, mods, games or whatever you're going to do something fucking crazier than that bitch ass backstabbing prick Xenon ever could.