This is the Web of the 1990s and, to some degree, the early 2000s — that some of us experienced and remember.
The Web that some of us want to make a come back.
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This is so much the vibe I felt when I started using the fediverse... When websites had specific pages for links to other websites. Because other people were doing cool stuff too.
@reiver let's not fall for nostalgia. Ye olde internet was full of braindead content for braindead people. You just remember the nice parts. 2 girls 1 cup isn't an Ode to Joy. Mr. Hands wasn't a fountain of wisdom.
You are correct that not everything for the old Web is worth salvaging. (Such as shock sites.)
But, I (and I suspect many others) feel that there were aspects of the old Web that are worth trying to restore.
@reiver HELLZ YEAH BROTER!
@reiver So true! We had NCSA Mosaic, but no Google, Meta, and no surveillance capitalism, real-time bidding, enshittification engines, and no attention industry.
The old structure is still here, and it works. The Internet works w/o Google, but Googly doesn't work w/o the Internet.
Try for yourself: Protect your home network w/ DNS filtering technology, e. g., a Pi-hole. Stringently use filters to block enshittified web content. Manually blacklist the whole of Google. This renders Google unusable from within your home network.
Enshittified web presences may not work properly anymore or not at all - , but you will be amazed how much of the Internet is still working! Positive side-effect: Much of tracking shit and targeted advertising vanishes from your island of happiness.
It works.
