[Pannoniae]

Yup, nostalgia projects often don't work because people don't really want the exact same thing as before, they want something which realises the potential of what there was before.

Good example is the game Minecraft - when it was new, everyone liked it for the sandbox nature and the endless possibilities. Now that most of the creative things in the game are either dead or stagnant, and the developers are actively working against the game's potential, now it feels like a dead end. It's similar to the web in this regard.

Nostalgia projects should just start from the old principles and build something which is an improvement over the things we had back then and which we have now.