Before @riverflows gets here, you've seen this video, yes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYlcUbLAFmw&list=PLOyi8XoQw-Jb3Jy3A5vWfYgy6OSwhozt0&index=3
And on the same theme, @ankapolo sent me this today: which I haven't had a chance to properly check out yet.
https://neocities.org/
Both of these things might be the closest we get to the old Internet - static, built by people, not written by SEO drones or AI prompts.
Something that has a heart, and a soul, and akward-ness of all of it being different and disconnected, yet, still connected by the sense of human wonder.
The website as a piece of standalone art, or as a love letter to something, as opposed to ... whatever it is we have now as a collective "Internet".
Hive is close. But it isn't quite.