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Conclave Obscurum http://conclaveobscurum.ru/ A private artistic project by Russian artist Oleg Paschenko. Very strange, creepy, interesting, and years ago, it was interactive (flash). Now it's just a walkthrough video that doesn't provide the same mystique. And it seems some of the creepier skeletal sections aren't shown. I think it might be a different version from the original. Back when I first stumbled upon the…
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
Iniital thought: "eh, might be a cool free version of Ancestry, with some huge limitations because 'free' means 'bad'".
An hour later, I became convinced it was the most interesting website I've ever seen, both in what it provides and the technology behind it. It basically gameifies building your family tree.
Plug in a name of your grandparent. The site goes: "Hey, here are three documents you might want to attach." The documents are indexed by all the information they provide: age, sex, birth location, etc. Adding one document gives the site higher confidence in finding other documents. It results in a cascading effect where the more info you add, the more family members it finds, all in real time as you continue building out the tree.
Eventually, you add an ancestor that is the common ancestor of someone else, who already build out THEIR tree, and that tree becomes instantly available to you, and suddenly you see hundreds of relatives.
This is a website I've built cataloguing high-effort and unique websites, if you don't mind the shameless self-promotion.
One of the most distinctive websites I've found on my journeys is http://www.deuceofclubs.com/ . I've visited many times and it is still impossible to categorise.
Neocities also offers much of what you seek.
familysearch.com Iniital thought: "eh, might be a cool free version of Ancestry, with some huge limitations because 'free' means 'bad'". An hour later, I became convinced it was the most interesting website I've ever seen, both in what it provides and the technology behind it. It basically gameifies building your family tree. Plug in a name of your grandparent. The site goes: "Hey, here are three documents you might…
https://www.familysearch.org/en/home/sponsorship
Oh, and why are Mormons so into genealogy? (obviously this isn't the only reason)
Almanac of human made EM signals. The diversity of signals and how they sound and look on a spectrograph is engaging and informative.
taxi1010.com. A veteran taxi driver (?) organizes his thoughts around "verbal self defense," creating a highly crosslinked database of adversarial conversational openers, and possible ways to deflect them. Reasonable starting point: http://www.taxi1010.com/stargate01.htm#sitemap
everything2.com: another free-form database mixing facts, fiction and personal notes written by an unusually literate subcommunity. Adjacent to slashdot and h2g2, even documents some early reactions to wikipedia. https://everything2.com/
My Boyfriend Came Back From The War: net artist Olia Lialina crafts a poem in the browser by exploiting properties of the medium. Remixed dozens of times by other net artists. Archived by Rhizome with a simulated slow load over Netscape. https://sites.rhizome.org/anthology/lialina.html
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It's bold of the Nintendo family to make such statements about Japanese society when they can't even get their own company under control themselves. Nintendo is probably the most universally hated gaming company and it's true of other Japanese companies as well. They seem to be scared of the internet and goes out of their way to claim copyright infringement on anything fan made having to do with their intellectual pr…
Nintendo is probably the most universally hated gaming company What? I think you need to step out of your echo chamber, I would argue Nintendo is probably the most universally beloved game/toy/entertainment company out there, maybe tied with Lego.