Point well made, however I'd like to consider shedding some light on "The problem is with you and not the internet. " -

For many people "the internet" is fbook. To some the net is what google says it is.

With F and B decided that some things should not exist at all, and other things should be downranked to basically never be seen, while promoting certain sets of sites -

I think the problem is more than the individual not really looking. It's more of an education problem where people don't understand the amount of censorship and how the down ranking and upranking is actually affecting the way most are using 'the internet' - which of course has the network effects of people only sharing what they (have been allowed to) see (and allowed to share) - sadly.

The time of web rings, less spam and less censorship made it more fun finding random things imho.

Times when tumblrs and torrents and geocities and others showed up in search results, along with click at the bottom to do a similar search with alta vista, lycos, etc..

was in some ways less weird, but more fun to surf and discover. at least for me.