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Doors I touched today (1999)

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Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by ya1sec »

barbs wrote: post #25
bmitc wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there any particular technique anyone uses to find sites like this? About the only way I know of is to happen across a link to them on some forum, like this instance.

There's this search engine which seems to show some cool older-style websites: https://wiby.me/ > In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were personally interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded everything else. All the personalized websites are hidden among a pile of commercial pages…

I made a server that redirects you to a random site from a selection of are.na channels, where users actively add interesting sites. There’s a bit more to it than that - you can read about it on the homepage: https://moonjump.app

Add https://moonjump.app/jump to your bookmarks if you want a shortcut to jump to a random site.

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by thr717272 »

Kye wrote: post #36
andrei_says_ wrote: post #6

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Exactly my sentiment. I’d like to add that I’m grieving the discoverability of all these ingenious self made often a bit unpolished experiences. Platforms come to provide a shiny space for the makers and then slowly enshittify everything snuffing out the life out of the originals. Just like Disney ;)

There's a search engine for it. https://wiby.me/

Thanks for reminding me!

Also, for those who already had wiby on top of their minds, https://search.marginalia.nu can be used to look for old or old-style websites.

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by photochemsyn »

piyh wrote: post #44
alex_lav wrote: post #8

Kinda makes me sad that I read this, saw the date and then thought "I hope this person is still alive". 24 years is a long time. I quite enjoy content like this, especially the tagline (maybe a definition of a word that I don't know?): Fluxus: "Unfettered play in search of uncharted insights."

Anybody know how to get reliable hosting after your inevitable death?

Slow-clock processing on Voyager 3, heading for the stars, who wants to invest?

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by eitland »

Tangentially, just yesterday I traveled with an old train from Oslo and one thing that I notice again and again there is the sliding glass doors between the train cars have a "button" on them that does nothing except when you reach out to touch it you trigger a photosensor.

So it feels like the door anticipates you.

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by sixQuarks »

barbs wrote: post #5

It's sites like these that make me dearly miss the old internet. Then I remember that the old internet is mostly still there, just buried under the ad-riddled mass-produced garbage pile of the current internet, and there are ways to dig through to it, but I never do.

I would say the old internet is everything before about 2000 or so. It was getting pretty commercialized around that time already.

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by flangola7 »

afterburner wrote: post #41
ryandrake wrote: post #38

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I firmly believe the number of upper respiratory infections I have each year is directly proportional to the number of doors I have to touch throughout the day. Once worked for a well-known fruit company with a reputation for paranoia and secrecy, and because of that secrecy, everything was behind locked doors. Therefore, I constantly had to handle doors throughout the day to do anything at work. I'm pretty sure duri…

Or maybe that office had drier air?

Dry air isn't an infectious entity

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by bobthepanda »

bombcar wrote: post #58
tobyjsullivan wrote: post #45

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Not a comment to you, personally, but I saw someone the other day struggling to follow this philosophy. She struggled to open the door to a cafe for what felt like a whole minute because she refused to touch the handle with her hands. All I could think was "if only there was some sort of technology that would leverage our biology to make opening doors easy." (For the record, I was not close enough nor in a position t…

Some bathrooms have a toekick thing you can use to push the door open, and it extends so you can pull it open with your feet. But as more and more places install the handicap door openers, the more you can open the door just by bouncing off the very large button.

Lately I’ve seen motion sensors instead of large buttons for the handicap openers. Unfortunately they seem less reliable.

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by muzani »

piyh wrote: post #44
alex_lav wrote: post #8

Kinda makes me sad that I read this, saw the date and then thought "I hope this person is still alive". 24 years is a long time. I quite enjoy content like this, especially the tagline (maybe a definition of a word that I don't know?): Fluxus: "Unfettered play in search of uncharted insights."

Anybody know how to get reliable hosting after your inevitable death?

Posthaven does something like that but only for blogs
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