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Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

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Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

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post #42

It's awesome how you can stumble upon sites that are so funny or interesting (in multiple ways) that you just want to share them immediately forward. Everyone says it but it's true: something just got lost in translation when social media pages ate the whole internet.

What I've found consistently scarier this past decade+ is the casualness and seeming inevitability with which vast swathes of the population can be captured by unfavorable technology and social spaces or narratives.

And yeah, what you and others here often enough describe(d) are the shadows on the wall. Keeping civilization and culture on track really is a constant struggle.

Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

#52
post #19

It 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.

Tell me more about this toaster. How well does it make bread go brown?

Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

#54
post #39

Wow, I was not expecting to be taken to such an interesting website on my first click: http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/ This site has an underground cave directory by state, cave virtual tours with photos, cave type descriptions, cave photography tips and much more. I may just use this website to plan my next road trip and explore some caves.

And half of the entries have phone numbers ending in -CAVE.

Reminds me of the days when it was ordinary to memorize dozens and dozens of phone numbers, so one-offs had to be at least temporarily memorable.

Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

#57
I really can't comprehend how web 1.0 and 2.0 are two completely different Earths. The new web makes me hate people to the point of misanthropy while the old web makes me love people and see the potential in the world all over again. We've got to do something about this. Well, I guess OP already is.
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