Funnily enough I was looking for an article I read about a public figure and the website is long gone. Fortunately there was a copy on Archive.org but it really

Funnily enough I was looking for an article I read about a public figure and the website is long gone. Fortunately there was a copy on Archive.org but it really made me long for the days when the world and their dog felt excited enough to create websites that weren't commercial, weren't laden with ads, they were just labours of love. There were fan websites, sometimes linked together in web rings (I loved web rings) or listed on Yahoo! There were hobby/enthusiast websites where people would share information for the hell of it. I still miss those days. What I don't miss are the perpetual "under construction" gifs but the current web is so corporate and so ad infested/hostile. Yes, we now have Youtube videos on every conceivable subject but I can't help but think we've lost something along the way.