In some version of the game "Maniac Mansion 2: Day of the Tentacle", there was a easter egg that allowed you to play the first version of the game if you intera

In some version of the game "Maniac Mansion 2: Day of the Tentacle", there was a easter egg that allowed you to play the first version of the game if you interacted with a computer stacked away in the back of the scene. The game was difficult and looked old to me as a kid. But I somehow thought that this must have been the way people knew games before DOTT. You could run out of time, die, choose the wrong set of characters in the beginning of the game, making it impossible to win. I never finished it. On the web today I find echoes of the "Web 1.0" on Tor-.onion-Websites (including the uncontrolled cesspool that it was in the 90s when people bought illegal guns on the "Clearweb" as we call it today). And Neocities, that is mentioned in the article as well, provides something that takes the best from the past web. The gemini protocol brings back very simple websites and SpaceHey brings back the feeling of the early "Web 2.0" when user profiles could still be heavily modified using html. While much of what the author rightfully hates on is true, and it is the main characteristic of what the web is today, these developments also show that the web diversifies in niche corners. Whenever I discover them, it's really cool :) SpaceHey was developed by teenagers who might be young enough not to bother creating a Facebook account for themselves anymore [1]. And yet, they came up with the idea of recreating a piece of Web history. And if the worst becomes true and the Metaverse takes off, maybe there will be a computer stacked away somewhere in the back where you can access good old BBS boards, at least. [1] Okay, I checked their site again and they might be a little older than teenagers, but still :)