1 - the early 1990s when "the World Wide Web" was just one of many different possible systems for sharing content (others being gopher, hytelnet, etc) - and we were all trying to figure out what this "Web" was all about.
2 - that same time period when you could create a basic website using vi or emacs without any special knowledge
3 - the early to mid-2000s when we had blogs and were commenting on each other's individual sites, with discussions flowing back and forth.