> ...it's getting increasingly hard to find them through the commercial smog thrown up by Google. I agree with this statement 100%. I miss the old internet too

> ...it's getting increasingly hard to find them through the commercial smog thrown up by Google. I agree with this statement 100%. I miss the old internet too, not because of the simpler interaction specifically, but because the current state of availability of information is massively broken due to commercialization. The internet has been turned into a 5 store strip mall, everything has a rent seeker, a middleman or a gate keeper. It is increasingly difficult to find any information online that has not been created for the sake of commercialization and delivered to you for a price.