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The internet is a lot more stratified now than it was then, that's for sure. But at the same time, I don't think it's quite as bad as you think it is.

At the very least, the smaller side of the net isn't really "dying" anymore. Most sites like this one stopped shrinking around the mid-2010s, and a lot of smaller sites have actually been (very slowly) growing.

I doubt things will ever go back to the way they were back in the 90s, but at the same time it's also unlikely that things will get any worse than they are now.