- Decentralized web experience
- Every website was unique
- Minimal SEO and commercialization
- AI and algorithms didn’t control your experience
- Largely human-driven
- Prevalence of long-form and high-quality content
Marginalia Search - Independent DIY search engine developed by Viktor Löfgren for websites obscured by mainstream search engines like Google
wiby.me - Old-fashioned websites and personal blogs like Geocities. Random website search is good