I would posit that "old web" could be defined as the period before Google Search became public (<~1997).

But maybe that's more a measure of my own age and perceptions rather than an accurate representation of the various eras of the internet/web...

binarymax 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That’s the Cretaceous web. I miss it fondly.

	▲	ColdStream 26 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not sure I miss the web as it was but miss the feeling of it all being novel and exciting. You can still get glimpses of it nowadays but it isn't often.

	▲	Scoundreller 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks for the link. In ‘96 I only had text-only/Lynx, so rarely/never got to see what the early versions looked like with a “real” browser.