I miss the document based web. Actually what I miss is the "amateur web". I remember in 1994, when I first got the internet, typing in "Star wars" and visiting the many many fansites with random pictures, midi files, fan fiction, etc. Those sites don't exist any more. Sure, there are still some amateur sites out there, but they're always pretty professional, not the type done by complete-amateurs who just want to share something they're passionate about.
Do a Google search for any hobby, fictional universe, sports team and see how many pages it takes you to find a "geocities" type of site.
Tools have been built to help amateurs better share what they want. I guarantee Tumblr + Posterous + Weebly + fanfiction.net + wikia have far more 'amateur' sites and content on any topic you're interested in, than the entire internet in aggregate in 1994.
+1, very good point. The discovering these sites is much harder than in 1994. Professional sites dominate search to a degree that finding amateur sites requires much more work.
I think there is way more amateur content published today by passionate users, it just doesn't look amateurish. Wikipedia is the canonical example.
There are tons of users on tumblr and flickr which are passionate about photos. Such photo sites were very rare in the old web.
Blogger, Wordpress and YouTube has a lot of passionate amateurs posting high-quality content. asymco.com is a passionate amateur who provides better content than the professional media.
The old amateur web required users to do everything, including design. Most people can't design well (e.g. choose colors that fit well together). So most people ended up with creating square wheels or "see my 'leet skillz" designs.
The old web was a small village: very small selection of shops, but you knew all of them. The new web is a huge city: shops for everything under the sun, the problem is finding out which shop that sells the stuff you want to buy.
Do a Google search for any hobby, fictional universe, sports team and see how many pages it takes you to find a "geocities" type of site.