[dangarbri3]

The old internet is actually still around. There's just so much noise and Google isn't going to direct you to it.

Neocities is a platform that promotes those quirky personal homepages.

There are chat room/irc platforms like matrix and libera chat that still go on.

[ncr100]

AI recommendations are a blessing and a curse on YouTube.

More satisfaction from word of mouth (hand curated search index, effectively) hits than AI lately for me.

[uni_rule]

For me they're annoyingly self referencing. I rarely ever get recommendations outside my recent watch history so it feels like there's nothing to discover on-site outside of stretching the "my mix" playlist until it starts improvising.

[anthk]

A lot of Neocities pages are full of JS...

It's better to seek out pages at http://wiby.me

[graypegg]

I find myself missing the creativity and passion of the old internet, rather than the specifics of how they were built. Is it really so bad that these sites have some scripting involved?

[heynowheynow]

I miss Netscape on Windows 3.1 on a 4:3 CRT monitor in 256 colors with red on yellow Comic Sans bold italic H1 blink tag marquee with an unnecessary trail of ellipses scrolling left to right with 3 iframes with Java and Flash applets with a redirect to goatse.

But seriously, I miss Pythonline, gopher, finger, IRC, and sunsite.

[anthk]

IRC is still up, from Libera.chat (ex-Freenode) to efnet and so on. Gopher has lots of usage at gopher://sdf.org, gopher://magical.fish and gopher://floodgap.org.

On Sunsite, Ibiblio it's still up. And Slashdot.

[heynowheynow]

Without VRML97, we wouldn't have PNG. Ah the bad old days. Netsplit!

[MisterSandman]

Why is JS mutually exclusive to the old web?