By skyforbes I was looking at old screenshots of the web, and it hit me hard.
Everything today looks so clean, sterile, and corporate. Every website is a perfect white void with the same font and the same "Sign Up" popup.
I genuinely miss the chaos of the old internet.
- Personal blogs with terrible neon backgrounds.
- Forums where people had 50-line signatures with glitter GIFs.
- Finding a weird hobby site that was just one guy obsessed with toaster ovens, hand-coded in HTML.
It felt like exploring a messy, human forest. Now it feels like walking through a sterile shopping mall where everything is an ad.
Am I just nostalgic, or was the internet actually more "fun" when it was less polished?