Back from 2001, 2advanced.com Video only, since browsers can't easily run Flash these days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWkNkQoQY_8
Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?
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#133Back from 2001, 2advanced.com Video only, since browsers can't easily run Flash these days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWkNkQoQY_8
I wonder what Steve Jobs would think of the new Flash, super bloated JavaScript websites.
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#134https://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
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#135Back 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.
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#136I 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…
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#138Earlier 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.
i.e. some of us reject the (roughly summed up as) "go big or go home" attitude
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#139Man, 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…
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#140Man, 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…
I used to go on k10k and deskmod all the time back then!