~contrarian, I'm at an age where mourning my youth is perfectly appropriate.
The old internet was deep but narrow — it was exclusive, and didn't have something for everyone, just those that weren't being served by the mass culture of the time. The new internet is broad but shallow (besides the technical wrong pathways it's gone down). If there's a broad and deep internet to be found, it's in the deep web — unindexed chatrooms and weird interlinked bandcamp accounts. Sad maybe that it's all on "platforms", but good that it's there somewhere, something for anyone, but not for everyone.