cozy 90s BBS forums, obscure blogs, etc.
people often say they can find this kind of thing via my employer, Mojeek: https://www.mojeek.com/
How is it that 2 days after this posted no one has said “Craigslist.”
It’s not obscure, but, for me, Wikipedia is the ultimate example of the old internet that still persists today.
Free to use, no account required, ad free, non-corporate, multilingual, heavily biased toward text, simple and utilitarian design. Hyperlinks concatenate relevant pieces of information, which serve as the means to navigate the site. The code is very simple (seriously, view the page source of a wikipiedia article). It’s based on the human desire to learn and share knowledge with others, and has remained resilient to corruption by commercial interests that pervert that desire for monetary gain. It’s a beautiful thing.
Lookup brutalist websites or the gemini protocol.
4-ch.net (not to be confused with 4chan) is a 90s BBS that is still online and occasionally active. It’s neat to see posts from the 90s still on the front page.
wow nobody mentioned https://www.lingscars.com/
textfiles.com still looks like the 90s. It has stories, jokes, essays, and generally interesting stuff.
Aw i miss when website tracking was only “xxxx users have visited this page” and it was just a simple counter that counted up.
Don’t forget signing the guest list.
I remember being so proud when I implemented that on my first website.
Yep! I did it for a final project, called DANK WEB. We implemented an airhorn counter. We found out the day before that it just stored the value it saw +1 to the DB so a bad actor could reset the count. Then we easily figured out that we could just reference the DB so we fixed the bad actor part.
We got a 98 on the final. It was the most fun I had on a project in all of college.
THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!
I was there, Gandalf, when we named hosts after your horse and didn’t pronounce the “dot” in “.com”
https://www.spacejam.com/1996/jam.html
I’m pretty sure spacejam.com showed that page up until the sequel supplanted it.
From a time when websites used
<table>
orposition: absolute;
to place elements on the screen. That website is just one big table.I feel that right in the MySpace.
That is probably the best website on the internet!