I don't know why you're getting downvoted. What the "vernacular" style of the early web lacked for intentionality, it more than made up for in variety and sheer

I don't know why you're getting downvoted. What the "vernacular" style of the early web lacked for intentionality, it more than made up for in variety and sheer élan. Whether we'd live in a better world today had that vernacular not been erased in practice, I don't know that anyone can say one way or the other, but there's no harm in thinking about how that world might be different from the one we have today.