That would be The Million Dollar Homepage, with Zombocom a close second.
Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?
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Do you keep a catalogue of these?
Yeah, gotta catch 'em all and all that. https://memex.marginalia.nu/links/bookmarks.gmi https://memex.marginalia.nu/links/fragments-old-web.gmi
Your site design is really nice. Original and much different than the usual navigation patterns you see and I like it's on both http:// and gemini://.
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#243I still like to visit English Russia [https://englishrussia.com/] now and then. Unique POV, much humor. Started in 2006 as a melange of photos, cleaned up at some point (less pictures per page, a frame). Looks like a lot of the early photos are in the history section now. [https://englishrussia.com/category/history/] (e.g. first Russian mobile phone [https://englishrussia.com/2006/09/18/first-russian-mobile-ph...] ) Space section (Laika, Buranm Gregory Perelman).
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Quote: "Made in the People's Republic of China (Ling, not the website... which was handcrafted by Ling, in the UK)" Definitely the guy has a great humor.
Ling is a woman :) I once asked her for advice about a website I was developing and she very kindly gave me some very detailed feedback. You can probably guess what her advice was and I will always regret not having the nerve to follow it.
Perhaps it's not too late to make another site.
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#245Conclave 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…
Paschenko is a pretty curious guy. IIRC he makes both digital art and physical works, and—again IIRC—they tend to be atmospheric like this site, if perhaps a bit less cryptic. He's big time into Orthodox Christianity—supposedly the dominant religion in the country, but most ‘believers’ here just have this checkbox in the back of their minds that they're Orthodox, and that's it.
He was employed since '99 by Art. Lebedev Studio, one of the first web design companies here, known also for the Optimus keyboard. And he wrote some time later that it took him a while to realize that Lebedev, the company's owner, was just giving him money to let him continue making his art.
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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.
If you'd ever done A/B testing before you probably would not make this statement. Also, it's quite possible they prefer to stay small and don't want more business.
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#247https://bruno-simon.com/ A fun, interactive WebGL personal site
WOW thanks. Way more fun than if you describe it to me!
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#248The secret life of photons, 2D ray-tracing through lenses playground:
https://benedikt-bitterli.me/tantalum/tantalum.html
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, gotta catch 'em all and all that. https://memex.marginalia.nu/links/bookmarks.gmi https://memex.marginalia.nu/links/fragments-old-web.gmi
Your site design is really nice. Original and much different than the usual navigation patterns you see and I like it's on both http:// and gemini://.
Thanks, it's a bit of an experiment.
I do think the filesystem metaphor can be pretty powerful, and backlinks are also amazing.
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#250https://www.superbad.com/
is a 20 year old web art thing.
you have to click around. still works for the most part: I like the lotus page
https://www.superbad.com/1/lotus/index.html
the old memepool.com site was great. https://web.archive.org/web/20050531235511/http://www.memepo...