I stopped with most profile sites and just made a FB. I think this is where most of us fell away from the old web. Start 2010 feels like a changing point. I feel this is where the real conglomeration starts.
Sites die and the traffic goes to the giants. Smaller streamer sites die and feed Twitch. I end up watching a lot of my stuff via Youtube. I follow the handful of artists I know via very early crowdfunding sites as their site gathers dust.
It is around this time that I see something happening. A lot of the webcomic artists I follow start having their names appearing again. I look. I see so many of them working on shows broadcast on Cartoon Network and such!

Around here I've really started getting into MMORPG's, too. While not really playing WoW despite loving Warcraft 3, I do things like City of Heroes, trying to get into FF XI and tons of smaller online games like Exteel or Rakion.
We fight for the web, we see the big sites get bigger and I start getting into tabletop really hard after trying a few times in the years before. I had already been playing some Warhammer 40k for a few short years at this point and the cost of the hobby is killing me.
Late 2010's are a bit dull. We see more and more bad faith engagement online and things that used to be fine are met with torches and hatred. The same of schemes of the old world follow us into the new with malicious life coaches and hate-mongering talking heads, big or small. Capturing our attention faster because we're all on the same platforms together.

Bless how easy it can be to communicate now and discuss things from around the world, but damn that just any one can walk in.

You found it! The secret About page! The Internet Loser page! Here I say some stuff I can't take back :)

I'm Retro Rat, for now? I say that because I've been shifting between online names for ages. From Neoseeker to Xfire, to MSN, Runescape and everything beyond and between I've had different names.

I'm sure the flags on the top sidebar tell you enough, but if not,

Hoi, I'm Pan! I am beyond gender attraction. All may crash themselves against me if I like, like them. I gotta keep it all a little hush-hush IRL because people are cruel. You know how it is.

I've been thinking about transitioning for a while, just a decade or 2, maybe. But ya know how it is.

My country has a bad track record. They only recently revoked a law that forced sterilization before any other medical care. Every poll shows that people are getting more and more opposed to LGBTQI+ people and issues. My country recently elected a far-right party into power. People still quote South Park from a decade ago about the issue. Imageboard vernacular and other dehumanizing trash leaks into the mainstream.

I think about just buying my own meds online a lot because the process is just so skewed against you. We barely have 3 places in the whole country that deal with this and half of them are dismissive to the majority of applicants.

I've been here for a while. Like I said, I came online in the late 90's. I've seen a ton of websites rise, peak and die. I've participated in things we felt were big online but now, mere 15 years later are lost media or just unknown info.
I guess I was in fandoms without really calling it that.
Before going online I would talk to my friends and other kids at the community center. We'd talk about pokemon and movies mostly. DBZ caught on really quick, too.

We got a NES, SNES and 2 grey Gameboys from a friend of the family ages ago and I would sometimes read game magazines at the Gamestore around the block. My parents were into tech a bit and knew a lot of people all over the place who would hook us up.

I would only rarely buy something new from my allowance and I leaned towards JRPG's. I liked Pokemon games but heard early on that most RPG's were more complex and had way more story.
That resonated with me, I loved making my own dumb story stuff with legos character! I would watch the heck out of the the first 3 Star Wars movies over and over. It was still years before the Prequels so it was fine.

I would also watch a lot of TV. I watched so many shows with anthropomorphic furry characters. So many of them. I'm sure I have been so unaffected and normal about this for ages. I'm sure of it.
I started with Final Fantasy after reading about it here and there in magazine I never actually bought. No one around me really played RPG'S until some one transferred to my elementary school who did a little.
Around the time that friend showed up, we got internet and a better family computer. This is where I started really reading online about games, the few animes we started seeing on TV and ROMS. Before, I would just play single player games on the computer. Stuff from "25 best games collection!" and "action game collection number 4!" I would play Jazz Jackrabbit 2 and Star wars Rogue Assault a lot.

While I played Pokemon Blue on the grey brick of a Gameboy, at some point a cousin gave me a floppy he said Pokemon Yellow was on. I started to understand what it was after finishing it. I realized I could play "old" games without having to buy them. I spend a long time till my late teens playing tons of NES, SNES, Gameboy and some others in the background.
Me and the friend got a N64 for christmas and a few games. We both had Ocarina of Time and would talk about it a lot. He got Pokemon Stadium and we would do tournaments with other friends often. Some did not have their own pkmn games, so I would bring my sisters Pokemon Red and help them make their teams.

I would go to DBZ sites, both casual user created and one hosted by a small team. I would look for stuff on SWAT Kats and Pokemon. Newgrounds and random Shoutcast streams helped me find community beyond just typing in "final fantasy fan site" in Altavista.
Me and the IRL friends started playing Super Smash Brothers and soon branched into PSX fighters when we got one for cheap a few years after it's initial release and had it modded early on. My parents already knew a thing or 2 about bootlegging and got us started on PSX games pretty quick. The only legit games I ended up buying were JRPG's and like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater pretty much.

Soon I got my own PC and I got into streaming, AMV's and more anime stuff in general.
I really started reading more and more webcomics, more complex ones. Things beyond "looking cool" or simply using characters I knew. I had a few like that, but some were really still about RPG's.

Home-grown forums on specific webcomic sites became a place to find new stuff, mostly by just looking at people's signatures and looking around.
Around middle school, I started using profile sites like Vampirefreaks (Guess who was a metalhead) and the blogging site Livejournal (Guess who was a sensitive metalhead). While I was out on Runescape forums and Squaresoft ones, I would be trying HTML and venting out my thoughts. Talking to bands on their own forums or Myspace was a fun moment in time. Seeding and Leeching.

I think, like most people, I was just watching AVGN, newgrounds, the rise of youtube and evolving cell phone tech at this point in time. Still just catching movies on TV or online, heading out to gigs, parties and engaging in hobbies & piracy online.
A lot of stuff started drying up around late 00's though. A lot of comics I followed stopped updating, Fan sites went offline. I was even funneled to imageboards for a while. That time sucked. I did get to see junk like Bitcoins and prototype NFT's appear, have no faith in it, see early investors dominate normal people a decade later and still hate it all 20 years down the line.