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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 by hutzlibu »

syntaxing wrote: post #128
tryauuum wrote: post #117

https://logological.org/girlfriend Some guy from 1998 explains why he will never have girlfriend

Now I’m curious if this person ever found a significant other. This blog has been updated fairly recently.

He has also a Twitter presence. All in all it seems, he was determened to stick with his self fullfilling prophecy.

The only update on this site on this is:

"Update (2000-04-01): My sarcastic pleas for some e-mail have finally been answered. Take a look at this letter from a hysterical female reader, which I think perfectly demonstrates the point of this entire essay. "

All in all quite sad I think.

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Post by hutzlibu »

axpy906 wrote: post #145
data-ottawa wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the design has been updated, the LaTeX equations aren’t transparent gifs like the days of old.

Yes, if you look at the bottom it’s got updated citations from the 2010’s.

2019

"This essay is discussed in Chapter 7 of Joseph M. Reagle, Jr.'s book Hacking Life (MIT Press, 2019)."

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

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Post by stinkytaco »

hammeringnails wrote: post #148

I landed on this very strange, albeit lovingly crafted, site: http://www.cmkosemen.com/snaiad_web/snduterus.html I felt compelled to share the strange experience with everyone else.

If you jump up a level, you'll find a rhyme to it. He's a relatively well known artist and has a moderate internet following.

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Post by jerryzh »

It is really fascinating that the first website I went to is exactly named "Why bkuhn's Website Looks Like Crap", where someone explains why he is sticking to Web 1.0.

http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/why-crap.html

These are the times that make me consider to believe in fortune.

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Post by judge2020 »

petetnt wrote: 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.

These sites only get shared via some sort of centralized (or not) type of social media. AIM and MSN was the craze back then, you either saw web 1.0 stuff from your friends there, or coworkers via email.

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Post by Aeolun »

jerryzh wrote: post #154

It is really fascinating that the first website I went to is exactly named "Why bkuhn's Website Looks Like Crap", where someone explains why he is sticking to Web 1.0. http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/why-crap.html These are the times that make me consider to believe in fortune.

It’s sad that all the links on that page seem broken.

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Post by MrVandemar »

bilekas wrote: post #84

I kind of miss the old web. Not for it's design asthetic but for it's purpose. Every site seems solely focused on the info. Contrasting today, it feels like everyone wants to look and feel that same.

Interesting comment about the focus on the "info".

I wonder if, in some subtle way, Wikipedia is somewhat responsible for the decline of these kinds of sites. If you want to quickly get some (probable) facts and information on a given topic, wikipedia is where you go.

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Post by duncan-donuts »

judge2020 wrote: post #155
petetnt wrote: 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.

These sites only get shared via some sort of centralized (or not) type of social media. AIM and MSN was the craze back then, you either saw web 1.0 stuff from your friends there, or coworkers via email.

Another aspect is that you could actually find these sites in the past. I have vague recollections of spending hours going through a bunch of garbage to find some goldmine Web 1.0 site. I don’t remember the last time I found an old site like these

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Post by jareklupinski »

varjag wrote: post #130

A piece of technology that I had no idea existed: http://www.officemuseum.com/stapler_gallery_stapleless.htm

i remember seeing these as a kid and thinking "oh man regular stapler companies are in trouble!"

had no idea the first one was patented in _1910_

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Post by duncan-donuts »

varjag wrote: post #147
mulmen wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They didn’t eat the entire Internet. They didn’t even eat the web. They set up parallel walled gardens. The web is still there. Personal websites just don’t scale to the masses. This is fine and probably for the best.

It's a nice theory if not for the fact that one never seem to run into things like these off Web searches.

You used to be able to find them deep in search results but now it’s all blogspam. It’d be nice if this stuff was easier to find.
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