Wanted to ask you about this article, how do you remember the early days of the internet (I was sadly too young at that time). Do you wish it back? And do you think it can ever be like that again? I would be very interested
It was very user generated. And the search engines facilitated that, giving you very diverse results. This was long before the utter decline that is the current “authoritative” sources boosting. Now we’re all herded into a few large web sites and social networks. It’s a very sad state of affairs.
Would be cool if someone made a search engine that actively preferred weird unique websites over large centralized ones. But that might just end up showing a bunch of spam at this point. :/
The closest I know about are:
https://wiby.me/
and
https://search.marginalia.nu/
