I was thinking earlier about how cool the old internet was. Like, everyone had their own little homepage. You didn’t need to be some influencer or corporation or even "interesting" to have a website. People just made them for fun. No SEO, no "engagement metrics", no clickbait. Just raw HTML and a weird background gif that looped forever.

Now it’s all... centralized. You’re either on Twitter (or whatever Musk is turning it into), Insta, or you’re basically invisible. Even personal blogs are going extinct. Everything is about reach and trends now. There's no soul in that.

Sometimes I browse old archived pages just to feel something again.

We need more of that again. I wish people would just make sites about their cats or music collections or how much they hate school or something. Instead, everyone’s trying to go viral.

Bring back the webrings. Bring back guestbooks. Bring back bad layout choices.

Hell, maybe I’ll make my own homepage just out of spite.