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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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Post by mulmen »

RGamma wrote: post #107
mulmen wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Vast swaths of the population are uninteresting rubes. Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter are all doing us a favor by keeping those people occupied and their drivel contained.

The MSM/MEM as population control vehicle/idiot honeypot is a salient angle though you quickly get into self-fulfilling prophecy stuff there. Perhaps it's me being overly pessimistic, but I too might have been captured by the mind-rot matrix if I had grown up with that shit, never knowing what was or could be.

The web isn’t going to help there. Crackpots made websites too.

You aren’t responsible for what other people do. Just live your own life.

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Post by furyofantares »

CharlesW wrote: post #18
xwowsersx wrote: post #13

Love this. Web 1.0 sites were eminently readable. Shame how bad sites have gotten. Here's one I landed: http://londonbusroutes.net/

The brutalist/undesigned style is an interesting vibe, but there are very simple things that could be done to radically improve information architecture and readability without sacrificing minimalism.

It's not too bad if you read it on an 800x600 monitor.

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Post by CafeRacer »

It's awesome! Thank you!

Just the other day I was thinking that 99% of things is in echochaimer; same dozen of companies pushing same dozen of narratives over then same dozen of apps and the internet is boring and hopeless and everything is the same now.

There was a site before, that would randomly show you different websites based on the category of interest. But it got purchased by another company and turned into shit.

I was missing something like that. Thank you.

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Post by furyofantares »

rhplus wrote: post #50
ttoinou wrote: post #31

Loved that website http://blackpeopleloveus.com/ > We are well-liked by Black people so we're psyched (since lots of Black people don't like lots of White people)!! We thought it'd be cool to honor our exceptional status with a ROCKIN' domain name and a killer website!!

I was curious who would pay to keep a joke domain name and website up for 20+ years, and it turns out it’s Chelsea Peretti (Brooklyn 99) and her brother Jonah Peretti (Buzzfeed and HuffPo). https://www.avclub.com/read-this-in-2002-black-people-love-u...

I thought that was her at the bottom!

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Post by JJMcJ »

3cats-in-a-coat wrote: post #103

I actually love this, and I bookmarked it. Why? Not just because of nostalgia. Web 1.0 sites had a different set of UI idioms, which seem unintuitive to us, as we're too set in our new ways now. If you get past the fact they're ugly by modern standards, you'll see these sites accomplishing amazing results through startlingly simple means. It's an excellent source of inspiration, and if you combine those ideas with mo…

Once in a while you hit a really ancient site that is CSS free. Like the original CERN sites.

They seem strange but navigation is usually absolutely clear and they are lightening fast.

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Post by ficklepickle »

IshKebab wrote: post #98
rwky wrote: 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.

I feel like I need a more comprehensive explanation of jelly/jam. So jam is the same in both countries? What is jelly in America then?

Wikipedia to the rescue!

> jelly (from the French gelée)[29] is a clear or translucent fruit spread made by a process similar to that used for making jam, with the additional step of filtering out the fruit pulp after the initial cooking.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_preserves#Jelly

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