I saw someone asking earlier about what the "good old web" was

I think it was just:

Homestar Runner and Songify the News

@researchfairy something I kind of just realized. Flash sucked for a lot of reasons but something like h*r built on Flash couldn't be SEO'd to death. It's only hope was to grow organically by people sending links and physically showing eachother stuff. Another part of the internet that doesn't exist because websites don't really exist anymore.
@theycallmemorty Imagine, something actually going viral, and it isn't just a quirk of the algorithm or someone putting their finger on the scale