I was born in the beginning of the 90's, so my memories of this decades are just from being a child.
But the first half of the 00's I was a pre-teen or teenager and things were definitely different.
I had lots of conversations with attractive girls my age in msn messenger.
They actually answered you, they were pleasant in general.
Now that I am older, i realized i just weren't able to bang some of them because I was a romantic guy that thought it was what attracted women.
If I were a more sexual guy, i would've been able to fuck some attractive girls in my teens.
Even older women were good to talk back then. I had good conversations with women in the last half of their 20's while I was 16 years old.
Nowadays women are totally spoiled and thinking they deserve only the chads. The social networks gave them infinite options, and now they only give their attention to guys 8/10 or above.
It's impossible to talk even with an average girl nowadays.
90% of the time they ghost you or answer you with one word.