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wtf
It's been running since 1999
You gotta wonder who's been hosting, paying for said hosting, and maintaining (they moved to HTML5 a few years back) it all of these years. It is one of the longest running pieces of internet history and I love it
You can do anything at zombo.com
Whaat?! π€£π€£ So random!
Hacker News is great because there a lots of interesting discussions and articles especually on Ask HN. It feels like a high quality tech/programming subreddit but without the disadvantages of reddit. https://news.ycombinator.com/
I'm conflicted on if I want to upvote this because I like HN or downvote it because I don't want more people posting worse content there
The thing I love about HN is that it's perfectly acceptable to browse at work since I would classify it as "industry news"
Blogs. It's amazing how many gems and great content are buried in countless blogs, maintained or abandoned.
I used to be a mod on Nonsensopedia. https://nonsa.pl/wiki/Strona_g%C5%82%C3%B3 It was a wikipedia-like thing, but with humorous stuff. I think it is abandonned now. There were a lot of garbage, but also some really well-written satires, that took a lot of writing skill of many authors to make. It is in polish, so most of you probabbly won't be able to read it. Reading it through a translator is not a good idea, because it contains A LOT of language humor and references to polish culture/memes/politics
There was also a similar project in english (Uncyclopedia), but Nonsensopedia was way better https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Main_Page
Usenet and IRC. Roam the realms of your ancestors.
TV Tropes
Neocities! It's a spiritual successor to Geocities from ye olde internet, and it rocks. Poke through the directory of sites, there's some wild stuff on there.
It's a great place to go if you are learning web design and want to practice what you've learned without having to pay an arm and a leg for a site.
The SCP wiki is always a fun place to lose a couple of hours. Hereβs how they describe themselves:
The SCP Wiki is a collaborative speculative fiction website about the SCP Foundation, a secretive organization that contains anomalous or supernatural items and entities away from the eyes of the public.
And hereβs an example page about a moth with mind control powers
I've spent so much time reading and listening to SCPs. Love that shit
https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random is a good place to discover personal websites, or less popular sites in general
Interesting, thanks.
It has always been about the personal, non-blog (or not-just-blog) websites.
well, that and horserentals.com
I'm not sure what I expected from horserentals.com....
I feel like this is a parody but having seen the early days of the world wide web I know I'm mistaken.
This site lives in my psyche https://www.lingscars.com/ And I think https://www.windows93.net is pretty fun
long live Ling
Oh, yes, totally forgot about windows93! π
What the hell even is that. It's like what they thought the internet was going to be in the 90s.
Gopherspace, Gemini, and the smallweb/smolweb in general.
You got any good sites for those? Especially gemini?
Neocities. Hobbiest forums but they're mostly moved to Facebook.
Fark.com is one of the oldest link agitator sites out there.
I found it during September 11th when all the other news sites went down due to traffic. It's still going just as strong, if not stronger, today.
It's for sure a lemmy alternative / supplement
I tried curating some on a sublemmy
if that doesnβt work itβs !coolwebsites@lemmy.ca C:
I tried curating some on a ~~sublemmy~~ community
Semantics, I know, but important to learn a new platform's terminology.
An old favourite of mine http://muffinfilms.com/
I didn't know this was the same person who made the Making Fiends animations until I clicked on the giftshop link.
https://digg.com/ still fun. https://cat-gpt.com/chat - the BEST instance of GPT by far. https://driveandlisten.herokuapp.com/home https://window-swap.com/
Ian's shoelace site is the best resource for everything regarding shoe tying and lacing. If you need to tie your shoe better, this is the place.
ToS;DR (Full name: Terms of Service; Didn't Read) actually makes terms of service agreements understandable.
Reddit is pretty dope I heard
Laughing and tears