Some things were better in the past, not a lot of things, but some things.
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
#72It 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.
Lovely. > This page is copyright 2005 by Graeme Cole. What are you allowed to do with it? Pfft. Anything within the realms of common sense, really. I don't want to prescribe rigidly what people can and can't do with it, so I've decided on a benchmark. It's this: you're allowed to do with this page anything you wouldn't mind me doing with your cat. So yes, you can photoshop it for comedy effect, you can copy bits of i…
I was going to say the man invented CC-BY before there was CC-BY, but apparently, the first CC licenses came out in 2002.
Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
#73I 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
> 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
There are probably a lot more thoughtful updates to static websites today than in the earlier Web; I doubt that the people who had static websites in the earlier Web are the same who post hot takes on social media.
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#74It 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.
Focus DIY, one of the stores that the author states his materials were sourced from, has been defunct since July 2011. Just to add some context to when this experiment might have taken place.
Edit: I see the page's copyright date is 2005, so it's probably safe to assume that's when the original experiment took place.
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#75I do miss coming across stuff like this: https://www.jetcafe.org/~dave/usenet/freedom.html
Remember stumbling into amateur written sci-fi stories with layouts like that. Downloading them to read on CRT monitor till late in the night, and losing them forever the next time windows would destroy itself.
Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
How long would US ISPs need to stop doing this, now that most stuff is HTTPS delivered anyways?
Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
#77*A random website from a curated list of what one thinks represents “Web 1.0”. A lot of these go beyond plain HTML/CSS websites; for example I got one with a Flash game (emulated using Ruffle [1]).
Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
#78It 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?
You had to ask and apparently I have nothing to better to do on a Saturday night. It's a Russell Hobbs Model 5569, it says it has a "microchip" inside. If I was to hazard a guess it's at least 25 years old (the post is 18 so sounds reasonable). It actually fits a piece of toast, even thick pieces or crumpets which a lot of modern toasters don't. It does require the toast flipping since it does one side more than the other but that's not a hardship. A single flip on about "2" does a nice golden brown.
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#79I 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.
I concur with your statement. Going through random sites for an hour, it gave me thinking back 25 years ago, when going from rings to rings of websites, look at them, reading the interesting ones and finally bookmarking them to be able to come back to them.
A complete different way to present a personal topic and/or interest than the current one. Right now, it is blogs that trying to gather an audience for whatever purposes, commercial websites, social medias etc. This compared to websites that gathered personal interests, or one specific topic that tries to be self-contained.
I don't know maybe it is the nostalgia, or how I have first interacted with the web, that brings back those contrasts.
Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
#80*A random website from a curated list of what one thinks represents “Web 1.0”. A lot of these go beyond plain HTML/CSS websites; for example I got one with a Flash game (emulated using Ruffle [1]). [1]: https://ruffle.rs/#what-is-ruffle
Web 1.0 was Flash. Web 2.0 killed it.