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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 Kamq »

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.

That's kind of the point of wiby (the site that's doing the randomization in this post). They only index web 1.0 stuff.

Not quite sure what their definition of that is, since I've seen recently updated things. Without CSS? Without JS? Maybe just websites that never make a JS fetch request once they're loaded.

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Post by Teknoman117 »

Here's my favorite web 1.0 site (still seems to be updated).

https://philohome.com/

I have no relation to this site, but as a kid it helped get me into custom electronics to scratch itches I had when building Lego Mindstorms robots - namely when you wanted to sense something Lego didn't have a sensor for.

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Post by itsmartapuntocm »

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.

Looks like they noticed:

> 15th July 2023: Fix link rot

> The fact that this page is now old enough to vote hasn't stopped the internet rediscovering it. Much as I would like keep everything preserved exactly as it was as an example of the older, simpler web, some of the links above had become dead or worse, so they've been removed.

> For those asking about the toaster: as I recall, it was better at toasting the middle and bottom of the bread than the top.

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Post by swader999 »

remkop22 wrote: post #47
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.

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…

CATPL license.

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Post by stOneskull »

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.

some really interesting text too.
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