What do you miss from the old internet?

_number8_@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 260 points –

i think we need Cracked-style articles back. desperately. or like, a guy doing a weird thing and writing a piece on it. sites like those are declining faster than the glaciers.

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  • less centralization
  • obscure flash games
  • random people's crappy colorful html sites
  • being able to find random people's crappy html sites on search engines, despite not meeting the modern strict ranking criteria or being bloated with SEO
  • being able to read fun, and sometimes unique and interesting ideas on said crappy html sites
  • less DRM everywhere
  • less commercialization and people trying to sell you crap (not saying less ads specifically because pop-up ads were everywhere)
  • more people just sharing things for the sake of sharing even if it sucks
  • anonymity
  • just generally the more raw and people oriented feel and less of the corpo ridden EEE/data-sucking/cloud-for-everything/enshittification bullshit we have to deal with on a constant basis these years

The Flash games are what I actually miss the most, but all good points. My coworkers and I would pick a game from addictinggames.com every week and compete. No micro transactions, no intrusive ads, just mindless fun.

Motherlode was such a fun game. Thats what got me into game dev.