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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"
https://hn.algolia.com/ - HN search tool
https://hnrss.github.io/ - HN RSS feeds
https://hn.premii.com/ - HN mobile web app
Blogs. It's amazing how many gems and great content are buried in countless blogs, maintained or abandoned.
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.
Usenet and IRC. Roam the realms of your ancestors.
https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random is a good place to discover personal websites, or less popular sites in general
Interesting, thanks.
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
Gopherspace, Gemini, and the smallweb/smolweb in general.
TV Tropes
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
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.
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.
Neocities. Hobbiest forums but they're mostly moved to Facebook.
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.
Reddit is pretty dope I heard
Laughing and tears
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
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.
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/
This site lives in my psyche https://www.lingscars.com/ And I think https://www.windows93.net is pretty fun
Oh, yes, totally forgot about windows93! π
long live Ling
What the hell even is that. It's like what they thought the internet was going to be in the 90s.