[Raion]

Been thinking about an idea of a "web within the web" where we have a central search engine ala Altavista or early Yahoo retro-styled with clean, but usable HTML and CSS (but the CSS fails over to basic HTML)

The concept I have of such a web enclave is as follows:

10-20 forums/message boards for various topics that all collectively conform to a certain standard of conduct and userbase.
A basic video download site ala early Youtube, no ads, no revenue
Some basic social boards ala http://retrohub.herokuapp.com/
A news aggregator that handpicks news that isn't sensational or propaganda
etc.

Sort of like a small enclave for those of us fed up with the larger internet, the commoditization, and such, and a retreat that's not indexed on larger search engines and only spread by word of mouth. An informal group of communities where we don't have the screaming/neogaf-type content, or the drama stemming from politics. 

I dunno. I'm nostalgic for the old web. But stuff like I2P, tor, etc. are loaded with the likes of 8chan/dailystormer content which I'm absolutely not interested in, and has negative connotations due to use by criminals. 

Something more akin to 90s/early 2000s internet that runs on old systems, and has relaxed community standards with healthy, ethical moderation.

Am I preaching to the choir? or to a group of crickets? I have taken short breaks (2-3 days) from the majority of the internet for my mental health, but I think the biggest barrier is a lack of services. I'm proud of IRIXNet, I really am, but we are a small portion of a larger picture.

And I'm not sitting here just spitballing. If we had a large enough coalition, I'd gladly help fund, maintain and keep such a venture around.