Yeah, I'd say "old web" is early '90s up through about mid-2000s or so. Geocities, Tripod, Angelfire, lots of standalone web forums, the early blogosphere, no social media, etc.

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clickety_clack 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Pre-social media is probably the watermark. That’s what sucked all the content out of the web and into walled-garden platforms.

	▲	ColdStream 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		As they say, now it is five social media platforms posting copies of each others content.

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s0rce 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think there are a few eras. Pre-graphics, then pre-Google search, then pre-social media/public facebook.

	▲	ColdStream 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		There was the sub era of Flash based nonsense. Somewhere in the 2002-2005 period.

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MarkusQ 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/old-2