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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
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.
Kevin Karhan 
Parttimesailor
caneToad 
@reiver So true! in 1993, we had NCSA Mosaic, but no Google, Meta, surveillance capitalism, real-time bidding, enshittification engines, and no attention industry.
The old HTML structure is still here. The Internet works w/o Google, but Google doesn't work w/o the Internet 🖕.
Try for yourself: Protect your home network w/ DNS filter technology, say, a Pi-hole. Generously use blocklists to rid you of enshittified content. Now, manually blacklist the whole of Google. This renders Google unusable in and out your network.
Enshittified web presences may not work properly or not at all - but you will be amazed how much of the real Internet is still working! Faster!
BTW: Much of the tracking shit and targeted advertising has by now vanished from your island of happiness.
Magic Carpet Ride 🎶
Ivo 🇪🇺
Coach Pāṇini ®@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.
Anathexyz
Patrick
Anthropy@reiver they still exist, it just got a bit drowned out with all the advertising content and people that wanted a slice of the cake without having anything to add
scheichsbeutel@anthropy @reiver There are plenty of sites worth reading, discovering. For someone who wants to preserve useful and valid information the internet is still a great place, maybe better than ever.
Of course there are today so many more sites somebody should avoid because of desinformation or the pure commercial interest of the site-owner.
obscurestar@reiver Before HTML it was all college nerds. Every autumn we'd get an influx of freshmen but we outnumbered them and could civilize them.
Then came AoL and the Forever September with its legions of racists, evangelists, and other scammers looking for anything they could steal or corrupt to make a buck off of.
It's been downhill since.
Leela Torres@reiver
I have some long lost sites in my bookmarks 😢
I have some long lost sites in my bookmarks 😢
Resolviendo la incógnita 🌐@reiver Maybe it was different outside the anglosphere, but that kind of webs were a thing until the beginning of the 2010s. Algorithms that favored clickbait were the first to suffocate them, forcing them to change or dissapear. However, that type of content was not completely eradicated, but rather it happened as in Fahrenheit 451.
Paco Hope@reiver The 3 podcasters who made the #forkiverse talk somewhat negatively about the #fediverse being nostalgic and populated by older internet denizens stubbornly clinging to old internet values.
They can pry these positive and open internet values from my cold, dead keyboard.
Steve
Tip
Ducky 🦆Kagi has a brilliant "small web" indexer that surfaces a lot of these sites
👉 kagi.com/smallweb
Kagi Small Web
Kagi Small Web
diana 🏳️⚧️🦋🌱I miss the days of the internet before JavaScript became popular. A more civilized age.
crispycat 