Comment by TheRealDunkirk

Au contraire. Yes, the beauty of the late 90's-early 00's internet was Alta Vista, and then Google, which allowed you to find the parts of the living internet that were interesting to you. Now, search engine results will almost never serve you up a single-user's web site. They will dutifully shovel you to one of the dozen walled gardens that has become "the internet." The search engines themselves have become the gatekeepers of this dead, corporate internet, and there's no breaking out of it.