I really can't comprehend how web 1.0 and 2.0 are two completely different Earths. The new web makes me hate people to the point of misanthropy while the old web makes me love people and see the potential in the world all over again. We've got to do something about this. Well, I guess OP already is.
I concur with your statement. Going through random sites for an hour, it gave me thinking back 25 years ago, when going from rings to rings of websites, look at them, reading the interesting ones and finally bookmarking them to be able to come back to them.
A complete different way to present a personal topic and/or interest than the current one. Right now, it is blogs that trying to gather an audience for whatever purposes, commercial websites, social medias etc. This compared to websites that gathered personal interests, or one specific topic that tries to be self-contained.
I don't know maybe it is the nostalgia, or how I have first interacted with the web, that brings back those contrasts.
