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I'd push the peak forward a smidge to late 2003, at least for where I'm from. Florida banned smoking indoors that year.
Peak was mid to late 2000's. Late enough for most people to have broadband Internet and lots of websites with user submitted content that bypassed the traditional cultural gatekeepers, before smartphones and social media ruined everything.
So basically the Internet before YouTube came out and sparked the rapid corporatization of the Internet we called "Web 2.0"
YouTube was launched in 2005, as a way to share clips of Janet Jackson’s breast from the superbowl halftime show. The founders worked at PayPal, so I guess we can blame Peter Thiel once again