Websites as they existed in the 90s and 00s are no longer being created in any significant quantity. All of that creative energy still exists, but it's being more effectively siphoned off and monetized in the various walled gardens that make up the pastiche of the Internet that currently exists.

There are in fact a lot of really, really cool places still out there, but they've become occluded from search engine, and you can typically only find them through direct interaction with people. So the annoying answer is that you have to just keep doing what you're doing, and ask what's cool.

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

To give a couple completely random examples of really cool sites with vibrant communities and tons of content that I've only just discovered in the past couple of years:

CRT Database has tons of technical information about CRT TVs, and is a resources that I've found essential for retro gaming.

18xx.games is a website for playing stock trading railroad board games online.

Standard Ebooks has nice electronic versions of a lot of public domain classics. This is where I go on January 1st to pick out some new public domain stuff from the 1920s to read for that year.

I think in the 90s and 00s it was easier to find this kind of stuff.

[–] Lavender@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

I'll check those out! Thanks!

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Standard Ebooks is really cool! I wasn't aware of them until now. I'm going to look at their tools and see if I can't contribute something to their collection.