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What a gem! And a few more from the HTML source: As well as a style tag missing a closing '>' on the page template:
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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!
> "© 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 wonder if it would be possible to filter out the noise of the “modern web” by black listing big tech the same way we block ads. Might be an interesting project.
This reminded me of the Hidden London tours, which allow guided access to staff-only disused and abandoned parts of the London Underground. There's a real excitement in taking a peek behind one of these dusty, abandoned-looking doors you walk past every day.
What a gem! And a few more from the HTML source: As well as a style tag missing a closing '>' on the page template:
When did we stop explicitly welcoming people to websites (literally: “welcome to my website!”) . The same era that “going on the internet” was an actual activity. I miss that. It’s like we all stopped being excited by the web.
The website was set up by an Englishman, of course, because that's what us British do best: quirky and underwhelming.
I heard a fund manager in the energy sector the other day who said that PotM was the thing that fascinated listeners most.
Spoiler alert: January's pylon is from Cadiz in Spain, has its own Wikipedia page, but the pair featured aren't as tall as the Thames crossing pylons.
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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
Maybe it’s more like Rome being surrounded by hundreds of miles of malls, and parking lots, and highways, and those highways (and Google Maps) only leading you to those parking lots and malls. You’d have to stumble upon a backroad that’s not on the map to find the old Rome.
There also appears to be some kind of autocorrecting going on in the url path, where /page1381.html will redirect to /page381.html, though some will give you multiple choices like https://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/page481.html. Seems like a strange routing system. Is this common?
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Much like saying ancient Rome still exist, you just can see it through all the gentrification
I love the comparison with gentrification. It’s not the same though. You can still see the old web untouched, it’s just almost impossible to find. But if you do find it, you don’t see the gentrification. Maybe it’s more like Rome being surrounded by hundreds of miles of malls, and parking lots, and highways, and those highways (and Google Maps) only leading you to those parking lots and malls. You’d have to stumble u…
Just like it was back then... There was a very steep path for the entrance to he^W the Internet, and then it was easy to find those places. Now you can access the Internet easily but it's harder to find those places.
EDIT: typo
Interestingly the "entrances" seem to go from /page272.html to /page381.html, and then loop back. There also appears to be some kind of autocorrecting going on in the url path, where /page1381.html will redirect to /page381.html, though some will give you multiple choices like https://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/page481.html . Seems like a strange routing system. Is this common?