I’ve thought about this a fair bit, never more so than today when my son asked me about what color shrimp are before they are cooked. Twenty years ago there would have been 100 shrimp related pages, many aggregated into a Shrimp-themed webring called SkrimpNet or something. Nowadays you just have Wikipedia, which is basically the same thing except the shrimp page is run by the top SkrimpNet guy and he bans anyone who intimates shrimp aren’t people.
the biggest difference between the internet today and the internet when I was a kid is that it used to have geography. you could explore it.