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<s>Two</s> Three more questions. Please answer both!
1. When were the "good old days" of the net?
2. How old are you now?
I lied. Three questions.
How old were you during your "good old days" period?
@molly0xfff This question probably needs overlapping age ranges for those of us born on decade boundaries.
I made a judgement call 
@molly0xfff What are your answers to these 3 questions?
@nycCatHerder 2006–2015, 21–30, under 20
@molly0xfff This is a very interesting poll. I started in this biz in the early 90’s after college. A lot of change over time.
@nycCatHerder @molly0xfff African or European swallow?
@celeduc @molly0xfff How do you know so much about swallows?
@molly0xfff 2001-2010, 35, 12-22
@molly0xfff the good old days were the ones when there was no venture capital
@bob @molly0xfff I pretty much agree but I’d widen it to 1995-2010 or so
@d6 @bob @molly0xfff see I'd go 1994-2001. The net got a lot worse after the dot com bubble burst IMO.
I like the year range - even though I'm more than twice your age.
I'm thinking 2003-2007 really. A lot of this had to do with the interaction with Google at the time. Maybe it was the good middle days but if so, it was distinctly better than the good old days.
The arrival of a powerful search engine led in short order to people putting a lot(!) of information on the web, once there was a good way to find it. By spring of 2005 I was preaching about this to colleagues.
@molly0xfff Glad to see "the internet generation" (aka forgotten generation aka oregon trail generation) here representing. ;)
@jpsays @molly0xfff Not all have died of dysentery!
@molly0xfff For the third question find myself equally in two age ranges!
And think depending on where in lived would impact this stats. Some countries had faster internet access before countries in Asia for example.
@molly0xfff I've had "good old days" in all of those periods (I'm now 43), but I think I peaked somewhere 2012-2016.
Trump's election was traumatic, even though I was not in danger. I did "fine" in 2020 -- but 2021 and 2022 kicked me in the teeth, and while there are definitely ways I think I'm better than I ever was, I'm never quite as content.
@molly0xfff Question 3 is unfortunately impossible to answer accurately. I was equally in my 30s and 40s.
ucblockhead @molly0xfff having turned 31 in 1996 I feel this poll was made for me :-p
@molly0xfff i think all three of these are the same question.
@molly0xfff I mean I probably skew the data being a late comer to the web but certainly its interesting to see what people are saying.
I massively look forward to reading what you write and hearing your thoughts : )
also just trying to not be a total lurker here
@molly0xfff exactly 20, no option.
@molly0xfff nail, meet head.
@molly0xfff I guess the answer has something to do with the country the person resided in at the time.
@molly0xfff Very curious to hear how the results vary by platform, if you posted the poll elsewhere too!
@molly0xfff All of my life?
@molly0xfff
I will be in my 70s.
@molly0xfff I never had « good old days »
@molly0xfff I'm another '25-35' age range answer.
@molly0xfff 33 now and it's no coincidence that my favorite period coincided with the launch of homestar runner
@molly0xfff Weirdest thing I'm seeing in the replies is some people miss being under 30. Maybe appreciating having a fully formed brain is a me thing (being daft & irrational in my youth was definitely a me thing). I'm in my 60s now and have felt like I've become a slightly better person with each passing decade. And I think the internet helped me with that. (But like I said, if you start low enough, it doesn't take too much improvement to feel like you're really elevating your game.)
@paprikapink eh, i get it. just about every year of my life has been better than the last, but that doesn't mean there aren't parts of my teens and 20s i miss sometimes.
@molly0xfff Very true. It was great being able to dance till closing several nights a week. Routinely coming home from work at 6, going to DNA Lounge or the I-Beam at 10, dancing till 2, then getting up four hours later to go back to work was so wild and free and purely nonsensical. And I never understood why I was sick all the time.
@molly0xfff in common with others, hard to answer q 3 - I was 16-25 in the time period in question, so equally choice 1 and 2 (which are also the most represented choices in general at the time of writing), so I picked neither
@molly0xfff How old do you feel now after filling in these survey questions?
@molly0xfff
Heh, I can see where this is going.