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Finding it is almost impossible though. I've tried and tried but the search engines don't show any of these cute little niche sites that are definitely out there.
I feel the bigger problem is that there just aren't as many of them.
Why host a webpage now when you can just set up a Facebook page for it?
I wish people would realize there are people from every generation who won't touch Facebook, IG and other meta things. When we finally got s new mayor who actually said our town with soon have a real website, I nearly wept with joy.
“aren’t as many of them”
I do not believe that. There is more of everything now than there was Internet before. The web used to be tiny.
You are not going to find what you want by clicking on the “Mozilla Cool Site of the Day”. But they are out there.
Not that I do not agree with the point the OP is making. The “cool site” story itself illustrates the overall story-arc of the Internet pretty well:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Site_of_the_Day
You know, you aren't wrong.
I've been noodling on an idea for a while:
What about a.. fediverse focused/ federated search engine?
Yet back in the "good" days, we didn't have search engines.