The old web relies on people thinking "I'm going to make a website about X" and following through, not relying on visitors, income, validation, etc.
The old web relies on people thinking "I'm going to make a website about X" and following through, not relying on visitors, income, validation, etc.
Old Web was extremely self-selecting. If you were in that group or adjacent to that group, it was for you. The sort of person that would read about that crazy guy making Unix from scratch and then download a bunch of floppy disk images.
The new Web is for the median human. The median human is very ordinary.