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1995 till 2005 = The Golden Age.

Why 1995 as the starting point? A few reasons:

1) Explaining what the hell the internet was became mainstream during 1995 when channels like MTV and ABC and others started explaining there is this thing called the internet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NIPGmziNG0

2) AOL (America Online) started advertising on major channels during 1995. This is one of their commercials on TNT during 1995:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1npzZu83AfU

3) Xband (while introduced during November 1994, it starts to truly ripple by 1995. It remained permanently niche, but it became the first significant ONLINE multiplayer network for gamers with a Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo during 1995. It even had X-mail, which was their version of e-mail).

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/5/1/AAMsTmAACxHL.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/5/2/AAMsTmAACxHM.jpg

4) During 1995, EGM (Electronics Gaming Monthly - one of the top video game magazines) started telling people about their new website called NUKE (which becomes a success by 1995 internet standards):

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/5/3/AAMsTmAACxHN.jpg

5) The success of Nuke would lead to other video game websites showing up.
One of them would be a website known as the Video Game FAQ Archive during November 1995:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/8/4/AAcOiaAABlKw.jpg

and then...
During September 1996...
The website would be renamed as...
GameFAQS (and it's still around during 2022...you are on that website right now!!)

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/5/5/AAMsTmAACxHP.jpg

The Golden Age of the internet began during 1995 and would end by the end of 2005.
2006 is the beginning of the Silver age of the internet. While Youtube was created during 2005, it would truly start to ripple beginning 2006 and that's the start of the Silver age, which ends around the year 2016.
2017 is the start of the DARK age of the internet when Twitter (which was created years earlier) begins to grow dark and INSANE in a very bad way and that insanity starts to slowly spread in a dangerous way to other websites...