I’m old and it’s definitely not the old web. I consider the old web to be when PNGs were sliced with Fireworks and laid out in tables.

2009-2014 is Web 2.0, back when people still thought social media was a good idea.

> I consider the old web to be when PNGs were sliced with Fireworks and laid out in tables.

PNGs? We had (mostly static) GIFs and we liked them.

Ha yeah you're right. It wasn't a proper homepage if it didn't have an animated traffic cone 'Under construction' gif.

Old web was 88x31 buttons, 468x60 banners and tables

2003-2009ish was Web 2.0, part of it was CSS/web standards and AJAX and blogging becoming more mainstream

Ha, people who didn't live it will have a hard time believing AJAX was as strong a buzzword as AI is today. Crazy to think asynchronous requests were peak innovation at the time

PNGs are new, not old.