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The web changed pretty dramatically around 2010, when the iphone and single-page apps took off and VPS became dirt cheap.

We should bring back the webrings

I remember webrings and browsing around was so serendipitous. Id certainly welcome them back

There's a couple starting back up.

https://geekring.net/

https://weirdwidewebring.net/

https://wiby.me/ (not exactly a webring)

webring.js - who's got dibs on the javascript library?

No!

For the old-school feel it must be without javascript

It's not Web 1.0 but it was right in the middle of Web 2.0/read-write web. Mobile/Facebook/Twitter/etc. are collectively a whole new generation.

People born during the dotcom bust are now old enough to be starting in this industry. I think that qualifies anything from even near that era as "old school"