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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 by tgv » Sat, Jul 15, 2023, 8:56 PM UTC

Damn, if we wait a little bit, the copyright on some of these websites will expire.

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

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Post by rndmwlk » Sat, Jul 15, 2023, 9:00 PM UTC

Strange stuff, some old internet art.

http://www.teleportacia.org/war/

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

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Post by graftak » Sat, Jul 15, 2023, 9:00 PM UTC

lkramer wrote: post #59

graftak wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except that most of these appear to be served over http, sans s.

Is that an issue if nothing confidential is being served?

It’s prone to MITM attacks and it allows snooping for what pages are visited. Some US ISPs use(d) this vulnerability to inject ads into pages. On a public/shared network you might be vulnerable to automated attacks.

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

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Post by imiric » Sat, Jul 15, 2023, 9:01 PM UTC

This is reminiscent of StumbleUpon, which I used to spend hours on finding interesting sites in the aughts. Reddit later filled that void, but it was always a good time stumbling upon some obscure gem of a site.

Now it's some app abomination, but I still think there's a place for such a service.

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

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Post by gus_massa » Sat, Jul 15, 2023, 9:03 PM UTC

thunderbong wrote: post #32

gus_massa wrote: post #17

@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?

Nope, I'm not. Just found it interesting and posted here!

Following the links posted by dang, it looks like the author is https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ehonda

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

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Post by seizethecheese » Sat, Jul 15, 2023, 9:04 PM UTC

Is this the first webcam? https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html

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

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Post by insane_dreamer » Sat, Jul 15, 2023, 9:06 PM UTC

I much prefer the era of thoughtful (or at least deliberate) updates to static websites in the earlier Web rather than the firehose stream of hot takes (90% BS) we have today with social media

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

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Post by eshack94 » Sat, Jul 15, 2023, 9:07 PM UTC

Ant farm website that it took me to: https://zimage.com/~ant/

Thought this was pretty neat!

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

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Post by mynameishere » Sat, Jul 15, 2023, 9:08 PM UTC

Here's something to strive for: The "Aloha Award": https://www.lavasurfer.com/awardpages/award-aloha-guidelines...

Oh, wait, dammit:

You cannot apply directly for our Aloha Award. It is only granted to the top websites which win our Pau Hana Award. (Only about 5% of Pau Hana Award-winning sites go on to win the coveted "Aloha Award").

Pretty rigorous for a website that specializes in the history of breakfast food spokestoons.

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

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Post by tunesmith » Sat, Jul 15, 2023, 9:09 PM UTC

matricaria wrote: post #2

What 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?

I don't think there is, because even here there is disagreement about whether a web server that returns html and css without using NodeJS is 1.0 or 2.0.