I wish there was a search engine that indexed only pages like these. Something that penalized pages with ads[1], and penalized larger sites. A search engine for the "personal" web.
[1]: Not that I'm actually opposed to ads. The trouble is the incentive of "more views = more money" leads to content farming, which is what has destroyed the usefulness of most search engines.
https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=014479775183020491825:c2lrlzro...
More on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21209358
Result: You likely only love the idea of one, but wouldn't actually use it. Main reason is it it would represent only a very small fraction of searchable web that you will forget to use it.
I have memories of spending nights just reading it as a teen. IIRC, there is some conspiracy theory stuff on it, but there's so much interesting content. I think the guy is an exhibit designer at the Boston museum of science or something.
"Does anyone remember websites?"