I miss the old 1995–2010 era websites that had long links pages, back when the webring buttons still worked and everybody knew about Geocities, Angelfire, and Tripod.
2000–2009 was a golden era full of fangames and art and flash (SWF) animations and internet searches that were not infected with the cancer of SEO.
I remember sites like TeamArtail, where artists like BattleFranky and TheFuckingDevil started out drawing in the oekaki board with an unreliable java version of MS Paint embedded in the page.
No hidden scrollbars, No disappearing-reappearing animated paragraph sliders and other HTML5 shit like flickering "blank text" placeholders, loading spinners, and cross-domain "resource" loading that makes even the fastest gigabit internet service seem slower than 19,200 baud in the 56K dialup era.
At least we still have sites like Cohost and Neocities.
https://games.slashdot.org/story/22/08/03/211235/css-crimes-turn-social-media-posts-into-games