[moolcool]

> But lately I've been wondering if the tools available to us now are the key to bringing back what we miss about the old internet.

One of the best things about the old internet was Flash Player. It was an extremely low barrier-to-entry way for creators (especially young creators) to make games and animation which could be played in-browser on extremely low-power hardware. To this day, there's nothing which comes close to filling the vacuum.