You say this while literally looking at a post that fits what you desire. The old internet isn't gone,
it's just surrounded by a newer, often uglier (but not always) internet that's more commercialized and gamified. That's just how large human social and economic systems develop over time. The old is if anything given even more potential eyeballs, tools and space in which to continue being appreciated, while the new, among all its defects, also comes with its own opportunities.
It's a bit self-absorbed to think that something that provides a livelihood and means of communication and community to billions of people should disappear because it overshadows a few interesting old things that a smaller number of people enjoy.
That post is from like 2008. Where is stuff like this still being posted today?
And my main complaint is exactly that view of the internet as "providing a livelihood", or in other words, just being another venue of capitalist value extraction.
It stopped being a medium of genuine exchange of ideas and started being yet another money making scheme. What made it special in the early days was precisely the non-commercial nature.
it's just surrounded by a newer, often uglier (but not always) internet that's more commercialized and gamified. That's just how large human social and economic systems develop over time. The old is if anything given even more potential eyeballs, tools and space in which to continue being appreciated, while the new, among all its defects, also comes with its own opportunities.
It's a bit self-absorbed to think that something that provides a livelihood and means of communication and community to billions of people should disappear because it overshadows a few interesting old things that a smaller number of people enjoy.