by ethbr1 11 hours ago
The internet in 1986 and 1996 was nothing like 2006.
2006 is on the other side of the event horizon of "Don't be evil."
Idk about that one chief, maybe 2016 was tamer than that, 2006 was still wild.
By 2006, you already had Google, Amazon, and Facebook outpacing their competition. Apple was riding iPod success and just about to launch the iPhone.
Imho, that's well into the re-centralization of the internet and tech landscape.
Rewind another 10 years, and I'd call 1996 wild. That's before XMLHttpRequest/AJAX and when a cat could create as impressive of a website as any corporation.