This gave me very happy proustian moments
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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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.
Isn’t hacker news doing the same thing for the most parts? This is a little rude but I went through your history and maybe you should be more careful who you call “uninteresting rubes” and “drivel”. Don't get me wrong, I don't think you're in the category. I don't think anyone is. I'm just poking a little at your self awareness and your lack of respect toward your fellow people. I do think there is an issue with the…
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What I've found consistently scarier this past decade+ is the casualness and seeming inevitability with which vast swathes of the population can be captured by unfavorable technology and social spaces or narratives. And yeah, what you and others here often enough describe(d) are the shadows on the wall. Keeping civilization and culture on track really is a constant struggle.
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.
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Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
#284the first link it opened for me is
https://www.landoverbaptist.org/...
:|
Anyhoo a second retry got me
http://www.bloodgod.org/2006_Christian_Goth_Gathering.htm
Anyhoo this is fun, thanks for sharing this, OP. I miss the old days sometimes.
I didn't have access to BBS or MUD or whatever in my country, so web 1.0 is what remember most from browsing the windows 95 machine in my dad's office. I think the first website I ever opened was yahoo, I think.
my father is deceased now, the world has changed so much since then.
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#285It 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.
This is the best thing I have seen in a long time.
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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…
Agrre 100%. The fact that the back button is completely useless now (at least on mobile) because every website wants to refresh every time you go back is probably one of the worst things to happen to web navigation in a long time. Horrendous experience and it leaves me fumbling with opening everything in new tabs which can get super messy/annoying on a phone.
What we’ve been doing in one of the companies was actively messing up the browser history to benefit ourselves. That’s disgusting, to be honest.
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#287I think I found my new religion: https://timecube.2enp.com/
That's a mirror. It was originally timecube.com (which is now spam): https://web.archive.org/web/*/timecube.com
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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.
Hence the inclusion of "heavily".
"heavy use of tables". I ran into a script once that took a picture as input and output a massive HTML table with a cell for each pixel and a background color. "Pure html" images without CSS or base64.
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> 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 see…
The most notorious example I remember was an update to data entry software in the medical field. The old one ran on some Unix iirc, had a text mode interface, and was entirely controlled by keyboard. Staff could use it in their sleep, enter text, tab, enter more text, tab tab, and so on. The new version ran on Windows, had a lot more features for sure, but suddenly staff was entering data into a field, grabbed the mo…
I would add to that what I call "fractioning" of data (on multiple screens).
We used for years (decades) a DOS based tool, where in a "conventional" 80x25 mask there was enough space for all the data we had to input (navigating with TAB/Enter, etc.) before passing to the next (with F8).
On the new software the same data (in windows, on a modern screen) goes inside a teeny-tiny window that has not enough fields, so it is spread on three tabs and this breaks the flow.
The same happens a lot on forms on the web, fill one or two fields, click next, repeat.
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#290One of my favourites so far. https://ashidakim.com/ The art of ninja as expounded upon by a master ninja. I mean, my brain says it's a joke, but it's so extensive and has books for sale. The site is filled with gems, like this piece of advice on tailoring your training: "If I were in the Ring ... I'd have to regulate my diet and do a lot of running for stamina. When I'm a bouncer, I practice drinking and smoking." So…
Reminds me of http://www.realultimatepower.net/
Oh, that's good. "Facts: 1. Ninjas are mammals."