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Re: Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?

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Back from 2001, 2advanced.com Video only, since browsers can't easily run Flash these days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWkNkQoQY_8

Wow that gave me Flashbacks of both Flash websites and Metal Gear Solid. Flash was great for a time but was not the way of the future and I’m glad it died.

Re: Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?

#133

Back from 2001, 2advanced.com Video only, since browsers can't easily run Flash these days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWkNkQoQY_8

Wow that gave me Flashbacks of both Flash websites and Metal Gear Solid. Flash was great for a time but was not the way of the future and I’m glad it died.

I wonder what Steve Jobs would think of the new Flash, super bloated JavaScript websites.

Re: Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?

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https://vecka.nu/ In Sweden, we use week-number quite often, but it is nowhere to be found in our calendar software, so, there is a webpage that just displays what week it is now, nothing else.. also: vecka = week nu = now

What time is it?

https://time.is

Re: Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?

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post #131

Back from 2001, 2advanced.com Video only, since browsers can't easily run Flash these days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWkNkQoQY_8

Wow that gave me Flashbacks of both Flash websites and Metal Gear Solid. Flash was great for a time but was not the way of the future and I’m glad it died.

I edited this one and a duplicate appeared. Delete is missing.

Re: Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?

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I got you, fam https://dannarchy.com/ https://dreamcult.xyz/ https://stonepages.com/ http://spacekate.com/ https://wiki.xxiivv.com/ http://sod.jodi.org/ http://www.lileks.com/

Just a warning that exploring James Lileks' site will suck you into spending a completely unreasonable number of hours marveling at his outstanding sense of humor (he wrote a great piece last week on the passing of P.J. O'Rourke) as well as the simultaneous wonderfulness and awfulness of mid-century American culture and life. The Gallery of Regrettable Food is a destination on its own, and the Matchbooks Collection w…

It's pretty amazing that Lileks has kept it going for so long. I remember this being a major time-waster 25 years ago. Still haunted by The Gobbler.

Re: Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?

#138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the goods are handmade then the bad UX serves as a rate-limiter to constrain demand to supply. I'm assuming the system works well for him as otherwise he'd switch to a better solution.

It would be more profitable and professional to increase prices.

surprisingly (to some, specially hardcore capitalists) some people do not want it all.

i.e. some of us reject the (roughly summed up as) "go big or go home" attitude

Re: Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?

#139

Man, if it were the early 2000's, I could give you a seemingly endless list of sites. There was a a network of sites like designiskinky, k10k, praystation, and many others that existed to curate, and showcase interesting websites. A lot of that creativity was due to graphic designers learning Flash, and putting up their experiments. A really interesting period of time. Sadly, I don't really know of anything like that…

Yup the design scene around the turn of the century was a magical time. Really happy to have been a part of it. Wish it still existed but we went from being punk 20 year olds trying to prove ourselves to middle aged adults with families and careers. Not everything can last forever.

Re: Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?

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Man, if it were the early 2000's, I could give you a seemingly endless list of sites. There was a a network of sites like designiskinky, k10k, praystation, and many others that existed to curate, and showcase interesting websites. A lot of that creativity was due to graphic designers learning Flash, and putting up their experiments. A really interesting period of time. Sadly, I don't really know of anything like that…

Yea that was an amazing time, there is a website that list a lot of those https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/category/Design%20&%...

I used to go on k10k and deskmod all the time back then!

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