I think things started to go more or less downhill since HTML 2.0. For the kind of web browsing I'm used to value text and images go a long way and they don't r

I think things started to go more or less downhill since HTML 2.0. For the kind of web browsing I'm used to value text and images go a long way and they don't really allow for anything too intrusive. There were tons of interesting sites online in the 90's and basically none of them were bad because they were missing some essential interactive page/UI elements. Most of them were near-instant already at the time if you had something better than a modem connection. Things could've gone heavenly if the nerds who built that only weren't a minority. At least we still have text terminals and ssh...