Give me the web from 1997, but just with a little more. Mostly ad-free, text, tables, webpages measured in kilobytes. It was self-supporting and didn't require megabit connections. It had chatrooms and forums and craptons of technical documentation. It was a maker's place, a hobbyist place, and a place where Mom&Pop shops could have national or global reach. There were oodles of online stores. It was considered rude to track visitors, and cookies weren't even a thing. Amazon and eBay were already a thing.

The small additions I might enjoy might be some flash games, Wikipedia, and blogs; these were early 2000s IIRC. I would actually draw the line at Youtube. It's great and all, but it could as well not be the web, but a dedicated native app for all I care, but give me the old YouTube at its very first breakeven point[1].

We pretend like the current multi-hundred billion dollar Crapshow Creeper Web full of carnival barkers hounding you every second is absolutely necessary, and it's not. What fucked up the Web was money--way too much of it. We're in a denial phase with the Web bubble desperately pumped up with steroids to support multiple 800 pound gorilla/leeches that provide little value other than "scale" (or some shit).

[1] (and Google will never publicly say when that was, but definitely before 2010--it's just that the stupid growthism mindset required absurd revenue growth to keep up with stockholder and executive greed).