The old web is still there but it is definitely dwarfed by the new web. Search results are gamed, comment sections are spammed, product placement and paid reviews are rampant, fake neutral information websites erode trust. Because there is money involved and access to the Internet is not controlled, some people chasing the dollars ruin the experience for everyone. They keep generating noise in their chase of money so that eventually the old web is impossible to find because most links lead to the new web.
I wish people would start to create more weird and wonderful pages. Pages without styling. Pages with nice styling. Pages with weird styling. But most importantly full of text content, links to friends and weird projects we love, images and videos etc.
dwarfed, ya. and it appears that the "new web" participants engage in legal attacks on, e.g. popular blogs about hacking owned hardware. so, dwarfed and maybe bullied, too.