Everyone misses what they used to live for, I'm only 23 and I've noticed the pattern. Look up "Eternal September" or the "September that never ended" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September. During this period AOL aggressively marketed Usenet access, saturating what was once a University grade Network for educated users, steering the path towards the consumer focused Internet we now have today. People longed for the old 70's-80's era of the Internet back in 1993, nothing new, nothing old. Because of my age, I miss the 2006 Web 2.0 era of the internet, before the access was even more expanded to the smartphone generation. When having a blog or a website was still relevant, before everything became encapsulated into social media. Yes, I'll admit, I don't like this new wave of illiterate image based Snapchat and Instagram morons that express through emojis and selfies, but they'll too as community environments become even more abstracted.