There are enough different versions that this might not be universal, but it would have to do so on battery power because hibernate turns off the power supply. Sleep certainly isn’t the same as Hibernate, but some versions of windows replace the option for hibernate with the option for sleep, but they do not function the same.
Technically if you store the ram into the hard drive and resume, such as the Hibernation Mode included in most Windows versions (idk anything about 11) then it would resume exactly where you left off.
But its moot because there is no future for Windows.
Couldn’t this be much different if “web 2.0” hadn’t taken over?
Probably not, even if you have time to maintain your site by updating it occasionally then it still falls upon individuals to fund the hosting services and hold the domain name. Even Hexbear’s domain wound up for auction a little while back because they forgot to pay their bills.
Many of them are still alive but don’t get the exposure they deserve because of centralized networks.
Since Net Neutrality has been off and on enforced, it’s generally been considered illegal to block, hide, or throttle traffic, but I agree those small sites didn’t get as much search indexing unless they paid for ads.
Forums lifespans weren’t all that much anyways. Most sites that were hosted before 2010 are gone now.
The real downside to everything being on StackOverflow, Reddit, Discord, etc is that it has made it easier for big tech to run their shady data collection and analysis schemes including AI Training.
I’ve heard all kinds of bad rumours about Brave but idk if any of it is true.
Your precise wording was “centralized networks” which I interpreted as the ISP providing traffic between you and other services.