And these are just fun nerdy tech sites — there is something fun or weird for every walk of life.
It's easy to get nostalgic about the internet of old (and I appreciate the OP is writing to promote their own neat creative coding/blogging playground), but the premise that the Internet is no longer as fun somehow because you can't inject crazy JavaScript into your Facebook pages seems misguided.
Outside of those strictly controlled communities, it has never been easier to join a group of people who like to make and break weird shit online.
You just need to know where to look.
Dig into https://neocities.org/ to recapture the feel of those home-spun web playgrounds of old.
Look at the amazing things the https://glitch.com/ and https://repl.it and https://codepen.io/ communities create.
Check out the buzz and creativity in the communities gathered around YouTube creators like Daniel Shiffman on The Coding Train: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw
Discover amazing indie game creators doing wacky things at https://itch.io/.
Visit the front pages of http://giphy.com and https://imgur.com/ for a dose of silliness and creativity.
Hack around on a hundred different coding challenge sites like https://www.codewars.com/ and https://www.codingame.com/ and https://exercism.io/.
Get free education and meet other learners on https://www.freecodecamp.org/ or https://www.khanacademy.org/.
Browse new and interesting projects to contribute to at https://github.com/explore.
And these are just fun nerdy tech sites — there is something fun or weird for every walk of life.
It's easy to get nostalgic about the internet of old (and I appreciate the OP is writing to promote their own neat creative coding/blogging playground), but the premise that the Internet is no longer as fun somehow because you can't inject crazy JavaScript into your Facebook pages seems misguided.
Outside of those strictly controlled communities, it has never been easier to join a group of people who like to make and break weird shit online.