Remember the early 00s the idea of the web was a community garden? Spaceship Earth 1994 -2006 by Jeremy Irons clearly illustrated the 'new communication tool among us' and it's Global Neighborhood interactive exhibits. Now it's all comic book crap as if somebody or an AI has decided that's all allowed to be discussed. The mic has been shut down and thrown away!
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Just the other day I remembered & dug up the archive of this ancient site featuring someone's anime-styled art & roleplays from way back in the early-to-mid-2000s anime boom - first found it & interacted with the creator back in 2005 or so when I was still a kid, and she was in high school. Crying shame to see how dead it is and how the creator seems to have since dissociated entirely from her past, even now I'm of the opinion that her work wasn't that bad and I recall how you could trace how she put in the effort & improved over the years. Certainly still beats the sanitized, inauthentic crap or outright SJ-tainted dreck you see out of 'creators' on Twitter, Insta, etc. today.
I could say the same about the forums I used to spend most of my waking non-school hours on, now they're at best husks of their former selves who are lucky to have sub-100 members online at any given point in the day when they used to have 2,000+ and at worst they got shut down years ago. The Internet until about 2007-08 was a truly magical place, God I'd kill to have those Wild West days before social media and the smartphone destroyed everything back.