if we analogize consumer internet deployment + adoption with web3, are we closest to 

1/ 1986
2/ 1996
3/ 2006

why?

4/ none of the above.

It's a totally different dynamic and marketplace now. Building when there are already established, at scale incumbents for nearly every web3 product currently being built, is an entirely different animal from web1 or web2.

Once we see net new native web3 products, then we can compare adoption.

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I agree. 

I interpreted the question to be comparing velocity of market adoption/penetration between web3, 2 and 1. It's like comparing apples with oranges when it comes to consumer behavior. No net new products have been introduced yet.

i can relate to this, but believe it's also where some of us left off; there was unfulfilled potential with a decentralized + open source mindset back then that is re-finding its footing now with the culture and the tech.