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The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)

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Re: The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)

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I love this. Texts appear both coherent yet utterly random: > Satan's heat-image can sometimes be seen here and it has recently been proven that all of the earth's insects were born just inside the metal door.

> ...coherent yet utterly random

Beautifully put!

Re: The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)

#22

> "© J H Irvine 2002" Yes. This is a taste of what the web was like before it became shit. And it's the way it should be again. Weird, quirky, fun, no ad-tech, no trying to hard sell anything. God, I miss this era.

I put together a list of sites/catalogues you might find interesting: https://untested.sonnet.io/Places+to+Find+Indie+Web+Content

Re: The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)

#23

> "© J H Irvine 2002" Yes. This is a taste of what the web was like before it became shit. And it's the way it should be again. Weird, quirky, fun, no ad-tech, no trying to hard sell anything. God, I miss this era.

That web still exists. Even though it has been eclipsed by the siloized monstrous goos, those independent, quirky, greenfield sites are still very much alive.

Re: The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)

#24

> "© J H Irvine 2002" Yes. This is a taste of what the web was like before it became shit. And it's the way it should be again. Weird, quirky, fun, no ad-tech, no trying to hard sell anything. God, I miss this era.

I put together a list of sites/catalogues you might find interesting: https://untested.sonnet.io/Places+to+Find+Indie+Web+Content

I've a site like that too, we would appreciate a link:

http://wmw.thran.uk

Re: The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)

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post #23

> "© J H Irvine 2002" Yes. This is a taste of what the web was like before it became shit. And it's the way it should be again. Weird, quirky, fun, no ad-tech, no trying to hard sell anything. God, I miss this era.

That web still exists. Even though it has been eclipsed by the siloized monstrous goos, those independent, quirky, greenfield sites are still very much alive.

Much like saying ancient Rome still exist, you just can see it through all the gentrification

Re: The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)

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post #20

What a gem! And a few more from the HTML source: As well as a style tag missing a closing '>' on the page template:

I noticed this too. Would be a safe bet it was hand crafted in notepad with no syntax highlighting.

Might just feed it to the W3C validator for kicks.

Update: The validator reported 42 errors before giving up:

  Fatal Error: Cannot recover after last error. Any further errors will be ignored.
  From line 56, column 1; to line 56, column 23
  Verdana">↩This w

Re: The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)

#27
post #5

https://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/page281.html How come a piece of tree (or whatever it is) is supposed to be an entrace of hell? Hmmm okay. Perhaps I don't get this Brits joke.

> Although it is an extremely exhausting process, his ability to swim through soil means that the devil will, on occasion, create temporary entrances. These will eventually be filled in by the local County Council but they can be a source of harmful mantle-gas. This example was named Oilyn by the investigating police officers after the former Prime Minister.

Re: The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)

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post #5

https://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/page281.html How come a piece of tree (or whatever it is) is supposed to be an entrace of hell? Hmmm okay. Perhaps I don't get this Brits joke.

It's the Wessex Variant of the Mornington Crescent rules that mean... oh wait, wrong thread...

No! It's the Malebolge variant!

(sigh)

Re: The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)

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post #20

What a gem! And a few more from the HTML source: As well as a style tag missing a closing '>' on the page template:

I noticed this too. Would be a safe bet it was hand crafted in notepad with no syntax highlighting. Might just feed it to the W3C validator for kicks. Update: The validator reported 42 errors before giving up: Fatal Error: Cannot recover after last error. Any further errors will be ignored. From line 56, column 1; to line 56, column 23 Verdana">↩ This w

> The validator reported 42 errors before giving up

Giving up? 42! How can you not see this as the sinister interference of Beelzebub!

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