I love this. Does anyone know how the list was compiled? I would suspect a custom web crawler that only indexes sites using certain tags. Which makes me wonder if there are any sites that would qualify with the exception of a modern js advertisement someone slapped on. I
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#22It took me here https://greem.co.uk/otherbits/jelly.html Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? Which I think is HN worthy in its own right. Also the author of that page and I have the same toaster.
Once the question was posed I had to know!
This whole thread ia brilliant, I do miss the old web.
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#23Another way to find web 1.0 websites is to browse with Javascript on temporary whitelist only. Any JS dependent modern site will fail to display and you can safely close the tab knowing it was commercial crap anyway.
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#24@thunderbong : Are you the author? People like to make some technical questions if the author is here. What is the tech stack? How do you identify the Web 1.0 sites? Is it automatic or a manual list? Are you filtering NSFW sites?
I'm not the author, but here is the tech stack, and it is if I understand correctly manually curated.
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#26What exactly marks the difference between Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0? I read these terms all the time, is there a good explanation?
1.0 was mostly static web pages with content changes largely driven by manual page updates to static web resources. This was the era where most sites were powered by an httpd host. 2.0 was when databases and ajax (JavaScript async) started to take over as a web content delivery form. Often content delivery moved from semantic page navigation flows to "single page applications" where the client state was often held cl…
I fully agree that 3.0 is the marketing term for decentralized cryptobro stuff, but isn't it also a term that tentatively belonged to a more generic idea of a regular web that iterates beyond web 2.0?
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#27Love this. Web 1.0 sites were eminently readable. Shame how bad sites have gotten. Here's one I landed: http://londonbusroutes.net/
They had their charm, sure, but messy table-based layouts, fluorescent color schemes, scrolling text and flashing gifs aren't exactly what I would call readable. Give me Web 0.1 instead (black text, white background, maybe 5 lines of styling).
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#28Related:
Wiby.me: Search engine for content-first suckless sites - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33373619 - Oct 2022 (65 comments)
Show HN: Wiby is now free software - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32027177 - July 2022 (35 comments)
Wiby: A search engine for the classic web - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25153524 - Nov 2020 (4 comments)
Show HN: Wiby – A Minimalist’s Search Engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23926964 - July 2020 (23 comments)
Wiby – The Search Engine for Classic Websites - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22321743 - Feb 2020 (1 comment)
Wiby – A Search Engine for Classic Websites - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20128680 - June 2019 (1 comment)
Wiby – a search engine for classic web pages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19015356 - Jan 2019 (1 comment)
Show HN: Wiby – Search engine for lightweight, unbloated, old school websites - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17355218 - June 2018 (2 comments)
Wiby – the search engine for old school websites - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16521862 - March 2018 (1 comment)
Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
#29It took me here https://greem.co.uk/otherbits/jelly.html Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? Which I think is HN worthy in its own right. Also the author of that page and I have the same toaster.
> I conducted this experiment as a little diversion in the lazy few weeks between finishing my final year exams at university and graduating, back in June 2005.
Everything about that page screamed "I'm bored in a dorm." Nice to know my college-dar is still accurate.
Also, it would have been nice to test with flat masonry nails. I.e. not round shank.
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#30There was Web 1.0. Then there was Web 2.0. Now we find ourselves in the era of Web Pi (3.14159). This humorous term comes from one of my favourite comments that I once found on HN. Quoting the comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30139081 > below: > Nice read. Firm supporter of Web Pi (3.1415). When it comes to building for the web today, I'm always amazed that "so much can be done with so little" and ye…
I used to work with someone who always held that Pi was the ideal group size for a committee that would get any work done.