The best way I can explain it is that the old web was like going to thousands of individual boutiques, and the new web is like going to a dozen or so big supermarkets. Even if the boutiques were sometimes bad, at least they were unique and you could feel there was a real person behind each of them. The supermarkets sell everything, but they feel sterile and bland.
Yes you can still find roughly all the same stuff. No it's not the same.
Yes you can still find roughly all the same stuff. No it's not the same.