Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by er0k » Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 4:59 PM UTC

digitalsushi wrote: post #129

jodi.org back in like 1998 or so.

jodi.org is still active and pretty cool, IMO

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

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Post by earthboundkid » Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 8:04 PM UTC

MisterSandman wrote: post #257

earthboundkid wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but everyone has been WFH for two years now…

Theory: any conversation on Hacker News that can boil down to WFH discussion, will.

MisterSandman's Law.

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

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Post by bckr » Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 8:08 PM UTC

can16358p wrote: post #258

bckr wrote: post #201

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I'm curious what browser you're using. This works for me on desktop and mobile chrome

Safari latest iOS. What should exactly happen? Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

It's a fun 3D "game-as-a-website" that I was astounded by (still am)

https://youtu.be/PN5YvuHVQXg?t=6

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

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Post by chefandy » Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 9:28 PM UTC

earthboundkid wrote: post #101

asaph wrote: post #54

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Warning: If you click on the logo at the center of the screen, music plays, which may bother others around you.

Yeah, but everyone has been WFH for two years now…

Yeah but some people live with other people. Even developers.

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

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Post by eightturn » Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 10:54 PM UTC

http://www.domainnamedollarstore.com/

because I love domain names, and I appreciate things on sale.

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

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Post by turkishlurker » Fri, Feb 25, 2022, 4:23 AM UTC

A former version of sandberg.nl from circa 2005. It was Flash based and if I recall correctly the work of Luna Maurer, a Dutch designer. I am not sure it is safe to admit it here but I am nostalgic for the heyday of Flash.

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

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Post by chefandy » Fri, Feb 25, 2022, 6:54 AM UTC

alberth wrote: post #65

moh_maya wrote: post #32

https://y-n10.com/ The website of the Nintendo founder's family office. It..is just beautifully designed, and a homage to the original game consoles and the entire art form of PC gaming when it started. Earlier thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26803201

Love this site. Does anyone know what typeface/font is used? I'm referring to the typeface that is similar to Inter (but isn't).

I think it’s Univers, designed by Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger in the mid-50s. The lower-case ‘a’ was the first glyph I saw distinguishing it from Helvetica and Helvetica Neue, and the uppercase ‘R’ was the first I noticed distinguishing it from Helvetica Now, Arial and Frutiger.

There’s a zillion fonts that look like Helvetica/Univers/Akzidenz-Grotesk but most professional treatments will just use one of those and make sure it’s leaded, kerned, weighted and laid out properly. The Helvetica documentary is a fun watch that will also give a useful overview of these sorts of type families.

The differences are pretty subtle. Though the typeface is beautiful, a less skillful design would render it unremarkable. The typesetting and overall design— i.e. contrast, relationship among elements, controlling the path of the eye with visual hierarchy, etc.— is What makes the type really shine here. If you like this vibe, you might enjoy the posters of long-time MIT graphic designer Jacquelin Casey.