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I think we can split it into pre-AOL, AOL to Facebook/smartphones, Facebook/smartphones to LLMs enabling Indians to use grammatically correct English.
People still used AOL at the time Facebook started?
The smartphones were the start of a new era. That was when the third world was more than a blip on the internet.
Facebook started in 2004, there were still plenty of people using AOL back then, though it was declining.
Dude, people are still using AOL provided dial-up internet service until the end of this month.
https://www.aol.com/aol-stop-offering-dial-internet-111750352.html
Enough to consider it an AOL era of the internet to be split into?
I would consider the AOL era ended when they stopped having "AOL keywords" instead of web addresses and trying to have websites only accessible through AOL. The last time I remember seeing any of that nonsense was maybe 2000 or so.
You expressed surprise that people were using AOL 21 years ago. I was surprised to learn that people were still using AOL dial-up TODAY.
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I agree with your era sentiment.
I'd say it's more like pre-WWW, dialup era, cable era, smartphone era, and postmodern dystopia era. Even after the iPhone came out the internet was still largely usable until it all got corporatized and sanitized so third world retards could understand it.