i think we need Cracked-style articles back. desperately. or like, a guy doing a weird thing and writing a piece on it. sites like those are declining faster than the glaciers.
The wonder of discovery. Before decent search engines you would go from link to link, use web rings or have someone send you an address. If you came across a community you liked, you stuck around. The small scale of it, yet the fact that it was global. Hard to describe..
I met so many interesting people that way. And I loved the creativity of their blogs. It's gone like the corner candy store (which I actually remember).