LOL. Thank GOD, I was not part of that era. :-P

Era? It was only 11 years ago for god sakes.

On the Internet eras last for three years. Anything made in 2006 now counts as a lasting part of society; anything made in 2003 is ancient and wise.

Two days ago I was browsing an old forum and saw Jason Kottke, Derek Powazek, and Dave Winer's names, circa 2000, and Kottke sounded like Kottke and Winer was being an asshole. Hard to believe those guys were around nine years ago. I was barely double digits.

A legitimate point. "Eon" might be a better word.

Edit: I just had the terrifying thought of this sort of website coming back in vogue circa 2020 because it's "retro".

An era is defined by events. There was a Netscape 4 era even though it only lasted maybe 4 years. We will hopefully soon be out of the IE6 era. An eon is a measure of geological time.

I'm aware of both those definitions. My contention is that, in the context of the internet, 11 years qualifies as "geological time".

While one can hardly disagree with 11 years qualifying as geologic time in the context of the internet, the original comment, "Thank GOD, I was not part of that era.", was referring to something delineated by events (the widespread use of geocities-like HTML formatting and page design), which has nothing to do with how long ago those events occurred. The only notable thing about that comment is that nipra either isn't old enough or didn't get into the industry soon enough to be solidly aware of that period in Internet history. That era ended an eon ago.