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> no trying to hard sell anything Apparently not even the coffee mug now, which is bitterly disappointing.
True, although the official safety posters[0] still seem to be available: https://www.cafepress.com/e2hp.34051572 [0] https://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/pagesafety.html
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Gentrification is a poor analogy since the web is not zero sum unlike physical space. Attention is limited though and that has shifted away from websites like this so maybe it's gentrification of attention
> Gentrification is a poor analogy since the web is not zero sum unlike physical space. It looks as if it's "not zero sum" because a random user can supposedly check out anything on equal footing, whether it's Facebook.com or some guy's hobby personal website. They're both there and available. But in reality that's never the case. A person taken at random is never equally likely to visit this or that (except in the s…
I do have a website since last century and I stopped posting on FB since a few years ago. My website gets negligible traffic except scan bots but still more than me on FB. If people google me they might find me on FB and realize that my page is dead. If they insist they'll find my site.
> "© 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.
How old is this site? I'm sure even in 2002 JPEG was a better option than GIF
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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.
I would use a search engine that only indexed sites that have zero ads, tracking or referral links. Not sure how useful it'd be, but I would use it! It would probably be like Google circa 1999-2000
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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.
Kagi (the search engine) has Small Web※, which (I assume) shows only results from the long tail and excludes popular sites (they use TinyGem search index for this). ※ https://blog.kagi.com/small-web
If that's too scary for you, you could always look at "Pylon of the Month" https://www.pylonofthemonth.org/ 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 Wiki…
And also this gem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout_Appreciation_Societ... which got its meme explosion from a calendar of 12 roundabouts, here is the latest 2024 edition: https://dullkev.com/product/roundabouts-of-the-world-2024-ca...
https://twitter.com/WorldBollard
As an aside, what's today's preferred alternative Twitter/X frontend, now that nitter.net seems to have shut down?
If that's too scary for you, you could always look at "Pylon of the Month" https://www.pylonofthemonth.org/ 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 Wiki…
And also this gem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout_Appreciation_Societ... which got its meme explosion from a calendar of 12 roundabouts, here is the latest 2024 edition: https://dullkev.com/product/roundabouts-of-the-world-2024-ca...
Speaking as someone with a predilection for photographing fire hydrants and manhole covers, this seems like an entirely reasonable perspective.
Not Heaven and Hell, but... Blisland, Cornwall, England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blisland Helland, Cornwall, England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helland About 3.2 km (2 miles) apart as the crow flies: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/33809465#map=13/50.5278/-... Or 5.3km driving: https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=fossgis_osrm... The main route into Cornwall is the A30, and you see the signs to…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Norway the image is quite funny. On the train station it says "Hell, Gods - Expedition". (but which in Norwegian actually means "goods handling")
The boot camp for the Norwegian Air Force used to be next to that place and had a gate there so many Norwegian air force soldiers including me guarded the gate at Hell ar some point.
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And also this gem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout_Appreciation_Societ... which got its meme explosion from a calendar of 12 roundabouts, here is the latest 2024 edition: https://dullkev.com/product/roundabouts-of-the-world-2024-ca...
Ah yes, the Arc de Triomphe, notable for its location in one of the great roundabouts of the world. Speaking as someone with a predilection for photographing fire hydrants and manhole covers, this seems like an entirely reasonable perspective.
https://www.reddit.com/r/firehydrantplanets/ https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=firehyd...
Lots of really cool planet-hydrants posts