The so called "golden age" of newschoolers never really existed.  I was under a different name for a year (peta), and NS was really tired, nothing new ever happenned.  It was basically a site by amateur skiers, populated by amateur skiers.  Then, more people started to show up, and the originals started to mature.  Lat wasn't an original.
More people, more things on NS, and people started branching out.  The so called "golden age" was just a bunch of who you see now, but 4-5 years younger, and were either fags or shit talkers.