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There seems to be a resurgence of the little old Web of yore, with webrings and website banner icons here, and a lot of young people making videos about neocities and other simple web things. Gives me hope for the Internet - maybe the real Web 3 was a conscious step back into Web 1.0 all along, with a bit more visual nicety to it. The tech stack and capabilities of the sites may be wildly different now, but in some way this captures the essence of the feel of the old Web to me.

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I don’t want to be a downer but i just dont think the vast majority of the population is interested.

Edit: I know everyone is having lot of fun with the short replies, but I’m not saying these sites are bad because most won’t use them. I’m saying that this movement cannot constitute a transition into a new internet with only a tiny minority of the userbase ever being involved. It’s fine to do it anyway, but it won’t fix the problems with the current one or fully replace it, and I wish that it would. I was only responding to the parent comment that this resurgence may represent a step back into web 1.0.

To be fair, they weren't back in the Web 1.0 days we all pine for either.

The vast majority wasn't interested before either. They just weren't as online.

Avoiding what the vast majority is interested in has always been a decent strategy.

Wanting better for others is a basic human instinct, I think.

I thought so too until more recently when the people who don't think this way seem to have given a megaphone by the internet

It turns out that different people have wildly varying notions of what's better.

Who cares? The vast majority of the population doesn’t care about 90% of the jobs represented here.

In order for anyone to be interested in something, you first need prospective "somethings" to exist. It's an old saying that 90% of everything produced is garbage. This applies to 90% of what is on social media, 90% of youtube videos, 90% of books and movies ... so 90% of the small web will certainly not be of any interest to most people. But there is a potential 10% that could help to renew interest in this style of website. We'll never know if it's never created.

And on a personal level ... I don't even care. I just like that people do things that they like. If people are building these websites for themselves and for no other reason than their own personal enjoyment, that's good enough for me.

The parent comment was talking about us consciously stepping back into web 1.0. I want that to happen, but I’m saying the majority won’t do that. It’s gonna look like isolated, small groups of people who already have some link to each other making these sites-a more creative discord server. I like that, but I’d personally love to see change that impacts on a wider scale, that actually changes people’s default.

And that 90% is different for different people in my experience.

They never were.

That’s fine. The vast majority of the population wasn’t interested in the Internet in the early ‘90s and that was fine too. Better in many ways. The signal to noise ratio was many orders of magnitude higher, and the average intelligence of users was observably higher too.

I have no interest whatsoever in the overwhelming majority of current things that consume the attention of the vast mediocrity that you call the vast majority. Their disinterest is a feature and opens up the possibility for lesser known and more interesting content.

"I don't want to be a downer but I just don't think the vast majority of the population is interested."

I guess that's mean no advertising because the audience is to small. What a downer.

If the vast majority aren’t interested, that’s a sign of success. Remember, it’s when they came that everything went to shit.

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