I made pocket change in high school by debugging IE CSS issues for strangers on the internet, which was absolutely fun and occasionally also quite weird :)
Why does it need to be all-or-nothing? There wasn't anything about MySpace that hinged on browser incompatibilities. We can try to bring back the parts of the old Internet that were cool and fun without bringing back all the baggage too.
The web of 2006 was fun, but to be honest, I find the modern web to be even more fun.
I mean, if we want to take off the rose tinted glasses and look at it honestly, disregarding the homogeneity of modern frameworked layouts versus a Geocities page with a fire background and crimson Morpheus text, the quality and variety of content is much better on the modern web than the old, as is the availability of media and depth of interaction that social media, for all its negatives, provides.
I feel like what the modern web may lack in style, it gains (and surpasses the old web) in substance. And I think that's a fair trade.
A typical case of retroactive romantecism. picking one aspect, romantecising it, ignoring everything else.