Yeah, I feel similarly. I think one of the major issues is that niche forums seem to have disappeared almost entirely, and most people discover new pages through through a couple of fairly large, impersonal, content aggregators, so you see this sort of personal "web 1.0"-esque content much less often, even if they still exist.
> so you see this sort of personal "web 1.0"
Reading this reminded me that we already have a distributed web that works really well. It’s been overshadowed by a bunch of massive sites for a while, but it’s still there.
I really enjoy this kind of enthusiasm, interest and curiosity about tech things, and personally I feel like there's been continuously less of that in my peers at every day job.
Also, people (myself included) complain that "web 1.0 is gone" and so on, but here are the survivors of that era.