The reason I miss the net from that time is not due to web design, but just the types of people that were online. I'm too young to have experienced Eternal September, but it seems every generation has their own...well, the current generation probably won't.
Nowadays you have every idiot spouting off half-baked opinions with horrible grammar and spelling, everyone arguing just to be right and not to test their own ideas, being ridiculously tribal, calling anything that disagrees with them fake news, etc etc.
When there was a little more barrier to entry, the net was vastly better. As someone that cares about truth, fact and good faith discourse, I miss that time terribly.
Nowadays you have every idiot spouting off half-baked opinions with horrible grammar and spelling, everyone arguing just to be right and not to test their own ideas, being ridiculously tribal, calling anything that disagrees with them fake news, etc etc.
When there was a little more barrier to entry, the net was vastly better. As someone that cares about truth, fact and good faith discourse, I miss that time terribly.