That was the golden era of porn, I'd say it was 1998-2012.
It was when porn was porn, because you had to answer ads in the back of magazines or meet someone in a club and then have the guts to pull up to a building, get naked in front of strangers, and fuck on camera.
There wasn't any social media really in the earlier years, so guys were going hard on the girls on the scene and there wasn't as much of a social justice thing going on.
I doubt we'll ever have that porn scene again, its OF and cam girls and the same type of scenes over and over nowadays.