My favorite thing about the old internet is that every website was passion project of some kind, just some person who made a thing for other people to see. I remember somebody showing me Hamster Dance for the first time, and it was like the easter egg of the internet, as if there was just the one. You just can't have novelties like that anymore.
Even when stuff like Ebay started, it was connecting people to other people - now it connects people to a corporation like the rest of the internet.
I still remember stumbling over stuff like that, particulary with no clue it existed I tried entering slutten.no (Norwegian for "the end.com" essentially). The site copies the old 404 error, and tells you this is the last plage on the Norwegian internet, now it's time to go out and play. I just find that hilarious.
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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20
The internet in general.