LNH20/Meta: the silver and bronze ages

[Lalo Martins]

quoth Lalo Martins as of Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:29:55 +0000:
>>> 2002: The Killfile.
>> 
>> I think I would've put this a bit earlier, both to give the world more
>> time to adapt to it as the status quo and to reflect the beginning of
>> the Modern Age (whose beginning is disputed, but whose latest possible
>> beginning date has gotta be October 2000, with UItimate Spider-Man #1).
> 
> That's funny. I also wanted it to be earlier/longer, but I thought
> somebody at some point had said it lasted 5 years. Maybe I'm wrong.
> Yeah, I'm fine with 1999.
> 
>>> 2002: Net.ropolis becomes Netropolis.
> 
> This is meant to be “shortly after the Killfile”, so if we move the
> Killfile back, we move this too. Then 1999 would be even more
> appropriate, because of the .com burst; I can imagine a city wouldn't
> want to be too closely associated with the .com phenomenon by then.
> 
> -- Lalo “in the net.hero bubble” Martins

Although actually the bubble burst was in March 2000. Maybe the best way 
to go here is to put the Killfile in late 99, and the loss of the dot in 
mid 2000.

-- Lalo.Martins