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Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?

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Post by pottertheotter »

don-code wrote: post #22

One of my engineering professors still has a Web 1.0 site, "best viewed in Netscape Communicator 4.0 or higher at 16 or 24-bit color". It's actively updated, but hasn't fundamentally changed since the late 90s - some pages still have the Netscape Composer generator tags in them. (For further frame of reference: I last had a reason to go to it over ten years ago now, but still bring it up as a talking piece. https://p…

This made me nostalgic. There was something special about those days. Also, I haven’t seen the HTML Writers Guild logo for a long time.

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Post by cercatrova »

frellus wrote: post #126

https://www.thiswebsitewillselfdestruct.com Wholesome, fascinating insight into the inner thoughts of some people, and shows us how tenuous the human connections we make on the internet can feel sometimes.. how lonely some of us can be.

Dear Website,

To reach a port, we must set sail.

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This is what I got when I first clicked through it. There are some very interesting motivational messages in there, as well as some very sad ones, many people grieving or pining for a lost love.

Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?

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Post by hackernewds »

syx wrote: post #37
Aragorn2331 wrote: post #23

https://c82.net/ https://fabiensanglard.net/ https://paulstamatiou.com/ https://www.arun.is/ https://ciechanow.ski/ https://simone.computer/ https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/

Thank you for putting me on this list, I really appreciated

which one is it?

Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?

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Post by cercatrova »

ipaddr wrote: post #172
usrn wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looking back I think the optimism for the internet in the 90s and early 2000s wasn't nearly as inaccurate as everyone says it was. There was certainly a lot of nonsense but I think most of what people thought would happen did end up happening, it just took decades instead of a few years.

What we got wrong was if you build something awesome people will find you. It was true but it is not anymore.

It is true, if you know where to look. Twitter has many interesting creators I follow, both in tech and in other fields. Instagram similarly has many good photographers and artists I follow in many different styles as well.

Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?

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Post by noahchen »

ricklamers wrote: post #189

The Chromium source code browser: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src It’s super fast with their jump to reference/declaration. Still curious what’s actually driving it. Looks like some sort of lightweight git/VCS browsing app. Does anyone here know more about it?

This looks very similar to Google's internal code search.
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