There have been a few posts lately lamenting the demise of the old internet, and this piece is trying to bring a different perspective:
Those things we’re missing aren’t gone. They’re still right here. They never went anywhere, they just got layered over by time.
That’s not to say websites haven’t disappeared. Or that beloved communities haven’t been shuttered and lost. Entropy is expected.
I’m trying, with this collection of links and with the newsletter, to keep my corner of an older web alive, not for the sake of tradition but for the sake of my mind and, hopefully, the minds of my readers.