Sadly when the 'professionals' took over with the sole intention of making money our world wide web changed forever.

...and at any time you can make a website of your own and change the WWW forever...

*EDIT*

(Aside2) oh and it seems another site is being sunsetted:

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3011

To recap: Yahoo are fucks. Wait, let me try again.
Yahoo! are about to delete all user-generated content on Yahoo! Video and that is really busting my crank, as well as the crank of a lot of people that have joined Archive Team to rescue it.

Please read the post for details and how to help.