Oh man. The cutting room floor! What a blast from the past. There sure was something special about this era of the internet.
Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
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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.
Yes you used to be able maybe in mid/late-aughties. This is not something recent.
how about a search engine that ranks higher the less ads there are
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#203Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
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I still don't believe modern we design is actually preferred by the masses. Ofen times it isn't even a balance between aesthetics an clarity, because the modern pages are broken or otherwise unusable. It has gotten to the point where I wonder if maybe I'm not neurotypical. I'll take sites formatted like Craigslist 100% of the time. Now I'm just waiting for windows OS to fully replace file navigation text with iconogr…
I think a lot of modern web design suffers from the same AB testing failures that got Pepsi into trouble back in the coke/pepsi days of the 80's. I may be misremembering the details, but the gist was that Pepsi was a bit sweeter, and so in the tiny amounts that people tasted during taste tests, they usually prefer the sweeter drink. In normal use, however, that flavor of Pepsi was too sweet, and sales tanked. I see t…
> But then you start trying to get actual work done, and the Fisher Priced interface is too simplified.
That's exactly my thinking as well. To give another example:
This week I tried to use an iPad and an Apple Pencil for day-to-day note taking. If you handwrite 100% plain English prose like, The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, it instantly converts it to text and corrects any typos. For simple stuff, it seems perfect.
But it's insufferable once you start on real work. It doesn't understand a lot of punctuation, tries to correct foreign words (likes names and locations) I mix in with English, tries to spell correct serial numbers (N07 becomes NOT). Having to go back and correct each conversion error turned out to be much slower -- and frustrating. I went back to a keyboard.
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Another interesting aspect of these classic sites is that they’re pretty much completely compatible with screen readers with zero additional effort.
I see you haven't run into one heavily utilizing tables for layout yet.
Fun fact: you're commenting on a site that uses tables for layout. It's not an unholy mess though, as it doesn't have sidebars or other really complicated stuff.
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#206https://webhamster.com/ I am just going to leave my hit here.
far out, did you view source?
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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.
If you've missed all the HN love for it over the past while, there's a search engine here: https://search.marginalia.nu/
which is trying to achieve just that
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#208I 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…
Old OS UIs pursued fascinating directions ours didn't keep up with, like Plan9's Acme, a 3-button-mouse-based terminal where any text in a file becomes a button and you can just type directly into toolbars, or the amazing wholesomeness of smalltalk repls. Of course, they aren't quite GUIs - but they had fascinating power.
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#209This 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.
Stumbleupon literally built me as a person. All of my hobbies besides programming (came from Runescape, that classmates showed me) come from forums etc. Stumbleupon showed me, like conlangs via Tolkien's languages.
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#210Thanks to this I found Otterchat,
"... a forum for otter lovers dedicated to the enjoyment of otters."
Then there was a site about "goats doing work"
It's so wholesome and endearing. <3