Is there any way to bring back a section of the Internet to those of us who want it to stay in the 2003-2010 and before era?

posted 1 day ago

Maybe this already exists. But couldn’t one theoretically create a world within a world that is like the Net we all knew and loved before it was enshittified? I know the wayback machine exists, but I was thinking something that is still alive. IRC chats, forums, flash games (maybe not, with security concerns…), video sites that didn’t suck absolute ass like Corptube, stuff like that.

If it does exist, I am sure this would be the place to find it! Or maybe is a matter of staying off of all modern corp sites. I don’t know. Maybe Lemmy is this fantasy world…

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Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world

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16 hours ago

Yeah corporate has expanded but so has the niches. There’s a huge amount of info in niche hobbies that has expanded over the past 20 years. Although I do hate how everyone makes a YouTube when some info would be better presented as a web page.

Imo things fell apart by the late 90’s when everyone stopped using Newsgroups and switched to Website forums for monetization.

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