96-01 was sweat out your worries on the dance floor with the opposite sex. The DC clubs still played a good hour of GoGo just after midnight and that's when you sweated out the last bit of your high/drunk/weave.

Dream, the first mega club in DC, opened around 01-02 and now it was about posting up in your finest stuff. Miami/Vegas style clubbing in DC. They slowly phased out GoGo because of the violent stigma attached. Still big dance floors but the jiggy era was in full effect so you had to be judicious because this is when the the club photos made the leap to the internet.

I was out of clubbing from 05-07 but when I briefly returned, the Stanky Leg, Souljah Boy, etc started getting popular so folks were pressed to dance with their friends rather than with the opposite sex. The mega clubs were starting to go extinct.

Now, all the big clubs are gone so you've got a bunch of smaller lounges that push bottle service. Dance floors are the size of a postage stamp.