Random thought: if the commercial web has all but devoured the original web, leaving only a fraction of the interesting parts behind and which are no longer really growing in number, isn't this counter to the reason why we decided we needed search engines altogether? Wouldn't it be nice if someone made a modern Yahoo! Directory equivalent for those random olde worlde curios we all pine for? Something like a modern decentralized Geocities
Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?
#52https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles
Various other lists on wikipedia. (I think there is a "list of lists" with thousands of lists).
Sites that show lists of subreddits.
There are things like "first world problems", "secod world problems" - and much much stranger stuff the higher you go ("I wanted to bake a cake from scratch, but in order to do that, I had to create a new universe").
Re: Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?
#53Few ways, in no particular order: - are.na seems to attract people who have odd interests and it’s full of quirky websites - webrings are still a thing and there’s a bunch out there worth checking out - directories like https://512kb.club/ are usually full of interesting sites - by following links on blogs and sites you find interesting - some cool forums are still out there ( https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php )…
theforest feedback: I like link sites to open in the same tab, like HN
Shouldn't this be up to you and something you can change in your browser?
Re: Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?
#54There are many great sites out there. People may think they are dead or lost because they don't attract millions of view per day, but "back when the web was good" there were just less people on the internet. And a lot of the bulk of the people online padding out the numbers these days are never going to be interested in these sorts of things anyway.
To find new sites it can be fun following a topic down a wikipedia rabbit hole looking for external links etc. for example start with discord on wikipedia and eventually end up with something like http://www.principiadiscordia.com fnord
Re: Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?
#55Random thought: if the commercial web has all but devoured the original web, leaving only a fraction of the interesting parts behind and which are no longer really growing in number, isn't this counter to the reason why we decided we needed search engines altogether? Wouldn't it be nice if someone made a modern Yahoo! Directory equivalent for those random olde worlde curios we all pine for? Something like a modern de…
You can try SearchMySite:
"The searchmysite.net search engine is a niche search, focussing on the "indieweb" or "small web" or "digital gardens", i.e. non-commercial content, primarily personal and independent websites."
Re: Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?
#56All you had to do was ask. Here’s one I found recently: http://www.betainfoguide.net/ The social tech of 2007 in the web tech of 1997 for the tape tech of 1977. I swear if browsers still supported the blink and marquee tags there would be some of that on display here.
I don't know about blink, but there is a marquee tag on the front page and it works as expected in Edge.
indeed! came to post this: https://i.imgur.com/jHoTdJU.png
Re: Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like that the mAiNStrEaM SIteS actually provide relevant results instead of placing fringe, absurd conspiracy theories first. Seems in line with Russian destabilisation campaigns though so maybe that on purpose? And providing rt.com's propaganda as #2 on "Ukraine invasion"? Totally not suspicious. OP asked for "manages to steer clear of hateful/racist/bigoted patterns of thought" though.
How is the idea that the u.s government has a secret space program that is flying around the universe under our noses with godlike technology hateful/racist/bigoted? Is it now racist/hateful/bigoted to believe in alien technology conspiracies just because anything that's not official government information can be automatically labeled as such? I think the whole solar warden thing and the universe of b.s around it is…
It's part of the post-fact world that was built up by Dugin's design. This is central to destabilization efforts. They've been trying this for a very long time - Eastern Europe was flooded with shoddily printed ufology magazines in the late 90s, often mentioning topics or sightings in Russia, and in retrospect probably just straight-up translations of centrally written articles.
Re: Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like that the mAiNStrEaM SIteS actually provide relevant results instead of placing fringe, absurd conspiracy theories first. Seems in line with Russian destabilisation campaigns though so maybe that on purpose? And providing rt.com's propaganda as #2 on "Ukraine invasion"? Totally not suspicious. OP asked for "manages to steer clear of hateful/racist/bigoted patterns of thought" though.
How is the idea that the u.s government has a secret space program that is flying around the universe under our noses with godlike technology hateful/racist/bigoted? Is it now racist/hateful/bigoted to believe in alien technology conspiracies just because anything that's not official government information can be automatically labeled as such? I think the whole solar warden thing and the universe of b.s around it is…
I'm with you, it's fun. I got Coast to Coast vibes reading one of the pages on it. and I remembered Gary McKinnon from a Count Dankula video about him - didn't realize the conspiracy theory was connected to what he saw when he hacked NASA in 2002.
Re: Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?
#59I find Boing Boing ( https://boingboing.net/ ) is a good newsletter of weird stuff.
Re: Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?
#60It's broken right now, but check out the Marginalia search engine:
https://www.metafilter.com/194653/Marginalia-Search-Serendip...