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carefreeguru t1_j1mvt57 wrote

Reply to comment by Ankleson in Cloudhiker: Randomly discover the most interesting, weird or funny websites of the internet like in the old StumbleUpon days by theKovah

>everybody had their own quirky website and nothing was fully centralized. I miss that old internet feeling.

The Internet was so great back then. I miss it too.

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windzyy t1_j1nkdr2 wrote

neocities reminds me of that old internet feeling… every site there is so unique and endearing

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1justathrowaway2 t1_j1oydcx wrote

With all the super easy web building tools and CMS systems I'm not sure why this isn't a thing again. Especially with how advanced social media is. You could easily have an interface to change a ton of settings and make your fb or insta look a specific way, play annoying ass music, and all kinds of shit.

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quisatz_haderah t1_j1pgm5b wrote

I think it is because most people online were tech savvy up to some point, and they were able to and want to put up websites. These days you need to sift through bunch of normies swarming on twitter and other places to get a connection.

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_methuselah_ t1_j1pj7t2 wrote

Social Fixer & F.B. Purity are two extensions that can do that for FB to a certain extent.

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windzyy t1_j217fad wrote

i WISH that was the standard. it’s actually kind of hard to get webpages to play music right off the bat now. i tried to do it with a site i made on github pages and i think chrome was blocking it — something about webpages suddenly blaring music being shocking to users (which i get but… still)

it seems like everything is kind of standardized to look and sound appealing and unobtrusive to everyone

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righthandofdog t1_j1prhqz wrote

After a little clicking around, it looks like a lot of teens are trying to bring that back.

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BeatitLikeitowesMe t1_j1nlom9 wrote

The transition from web 1 to web2.0 was jarring. At least as we transfer onto web3 it will help bring things back to defi roots.

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