i think we need Cracked-style articles back. desperately. or like, a guy doing a weird thing and writing a piece on it. sites like those are declining faster than the glaciers.
If there were adverts, they were single still images that you could scroll past and forget.
I keep seeing this sentiment. Am I the only person who remembers pop up ads? Was that a fever dream? I remember those being all over the place in the late 90s and early aughts. All with geocities style colors.
Cracked is still around. 🤨 They just… Suck now outside of some of the stuff they do on YouTube.
It’s not really any specific thing I miss about the old internet, personally. Most of what I do is the same now as it was then. It’s really the vibe and the fact more shit is owned by big corporate entities and not just some dude in his garage, attic or basement. That’s why I like Lemmy. It’s all garage/attic/basement people (well except threads but fuck zuck) 😋
Infoseek
Having the time to waste on forums.
Sites in search results actually had the shit you were searching for. These days it’s scam bullshit or “removed” from the results. Otherwise I do kind of miss the old forum communities. Very little of that left anymore
