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The old internet was less corporate and more we, thats what we want back, not old UIs and Technologies.
It was highly insular and difficult to navigate, and the barriers to entry effectively curated the user base .
We don’t want the UI we want the lack of corporate advertising that’s clogged the whole thing
Usenet + slrn was the peak Internet
It was all downhill after ARPANET.
It’s more about the fact that you had several community hubs to enjoy mutual interest rather than viral clout chasing… But I’m showing my age by being crochety
Not really. Forums were terrible ux-wise even then, we just didn’t have anything else back then. And on the flip side irc aged really well in my opinion, there’s only so many ways you can display chat-type content. And I still miss fun things like having “/me” for 3rd person messages :)
I love old UIs. I still use Windows 7 Skin for Windows 10 via OpenShell and the old Youtube Design via Youtube Redux.
I miss interacting at the command line more and prefered it when it was mouse and keyboard but as we have went to touch and voice and are homing in on eye and hand tracking I now sorta prefer a the interface be a gui.
Some of the responders here have apparently forgotten about punching the stupid monkey and JavaScript popup ads. The “non-corporate-advertising” phase of the web was from about '93 (when HTML became a standard) until about '96 (when JavaScript was released). Unless they’re talking about the pre-web days, when everything was text-based.
