Why not revert to the Internet of the 1990s, before it was commercialized and before Internet became synonymous with Web Services?

Of course, the truth is, even back then, there were a lot of dark memes on Usenet.

You can just go to neocities right now or https://piefed.social/f/smallweb and see it. Its fun!

Yep. Government/taxpayer funded access to the internet including funding fiber to the home just like we did with phone lines many decades ago, and putting back laws to enforce net neutrality. That way it's cheap to run a server again. Right now most residential access has poor upload speeds so you have to pay for expensive, business priced plans to run a local server to compete with big corporations.

TikTok

I think you're always going to have problems with a lack of authenticity on platforms where opaque algorithms do all the work of deciding what gets popular and what gets shown to who.

Acting like 2010 is when internet memes were invented?? WAZZUP was 1999 and Viking Kittens were 2002. Remember FWD: FWD: FWD:?

I mean, a temporary reset is possible, but nobody, myself included, wants that because it would involve destroying every single digital storage device and completely wiping away everything.

All we'd have is the memory of brainrot and AI... until everuthingngets rebuilt and status quo returns to normal.

memes are part of the dark days to me.

As if older memes were all meaningful. There's nothing wrong with 6 7 itself. What's 9 + 10?

Meh, not gonna happen and we all know that