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…
It’s all still there, you just don’t read it because there’s not as much content just like in 2005.
I don’t understand this “the old internet was better” and I was first on the internet in 1985. (Technically bitnet)
What exactly are you looking for?
It’s like moving from r*** to lemmy. It feels fresh exciting and so far untainted by corpos. Plus people here/then we’re actually tech literate since computing didn’t care about the lowest common denominator like today. I’m baffled how many of my friends actually know nothing of technology but they use it every day all day… Thats what we loved about it i think.
It’s called Eternal September and it’s been going on for forever.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
…tildes reminds me a bit of usenet culture before the eternal september…
That was a very hard habit to stop.
You don’t think the current corporate hellhole of the internet is different from the net of 2005?
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.