How would you reorganize the ways we interact with the internet to make the world a better place?

IMO, peak internet experience was when you had to make an effort to log on. i.e. dialing-up and tying up the phone line. Yeah, the speeds sucked and sometimes you got the dreaded "all circuits are busy now" message during peak hours, but everything else about the experience was better.

When you logged into AIM/ICQ/MSN/Yahoo, etc, you did so with a purpose. You never worried about bothering someone by messaging them at a bad time because if it was a bad time to do so, they wouldn't be online in the first place.

"Back in my day" (lol), the internet wasn't always on, it wasn't demanding your attention, it wasn't pestering you with constant notifications, it wasn't in your face all the time, it wasn't constantly recommending or suggesting things at you (not "to" you, at you) etc, etc. It was there when you needed it but didn't butt into your life every second when you weren't.

You could disconnect.

I honestly don't know what we can really do about it. Personally, I turn off pretty much anything that can send a notification except SMS/MMS and check manually when I want to. Some people hate that and get annoyed that I rarely respond instantly to IMs and such, but I hate being constantly "on" as well as the expectation to be.

Being out of reach is a joy I don't think the current generation understands.

Thinking about it now, some of my favorite hobbies, playing bass, snowboarding, skateboarding, riding motorcycles, all require that I be out of reach.

Less popups. I don’t mind the banner style ads both horizontal and vertical but the pop-ups are annoying.

Agreed.

Not sure about current generation, but the Gen Z people in my life do seem to understand the concept but are absolutely terrified of it. Like, if they don't have cell service when we go camping, they are just super agitated like they've lost their sense of smell or something. Could just be those specific people, but that's the only sample I have to gauge on.

My web would be a lot more focused on _static content_, aka text content and a less centralized one too. Making for a much leaner web (less resources wasted to load useless crap) while at the same time making for a much slower web to... consume as reading takes time, which also means the necessity to carefully pick what one will read instead of doom scrolling and also spend more time/attention reading each pick, one can't just glance at a block of text).

Hopefully, a Web less self-centered, with less fomo/anxiety/hate/anger/stupidity/numbness. With more attention and awareness to the other(s).