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Theres this term in my friend group we call "the ice cream sandwich", basically the time between 9/11 and the market crash of 2008. We use it to describe the nostalgic parts of the 2000s for us, the pre-iPhone era
It's this mystical slice of the Bush Era zeitgeist where the Internet was becoming more mainstream but was not yet normie, when it was this chaotic, content packed wild west of random websites, forums, flash games, and malware. /b/ was the cultural heavy hitter of the time, and this is an Era where the Internet was taken far less seriously and was far less political.
It was fun, and I miss it.
