I'm so glad I was on the net in its prime. The memories of 96-02 will last a lifetime.
I think 2000 was the high-water point for the internet. There was a little while where it was like having something in your house that you shouldn't have, but was just too fun and interesting to get rid of.
Oh well. They eventually fenced in the great plains too, progress marches forward. It will be interesting to look back in 50 years at all the rhetoric that was blowing around when the web got started. It was going to CHANGE THE WORLD!