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Care to elaborate on where you're drawing the line between The Internet and The Web? Your comment doesn't make it clear.
The Internet is a computer network used to transmit information (as packets). One system built on the Internet is the World Wide Web, which is just webpages served with the http/https protocol. Other protocols that route over the Internet include email, ssh, Tor, torrents, apps, etc.
I just made a pretty strange one myself: https://currentcondition.tv I've added quite a few Easter eggs and a few old school games. Let me know what you think? Blue dots are locations of previous visitors.. it all works well on desktop, the games need a bit more love to work well on mobile.
I thought that "A Website to Destroy All Websites" as a bit precious but like this for the "I'm feeling lucky" logic alone. The author is right. The internet was good and now, I'm sorry to say, sucks. I'm worried something's gone for good.
The Internet is fantastic. The Web sucks. On the Internet: any movie I want to watch; any song I want to listen to; an endless parade of games to play via Steam et al.; about a zillion games I can play online with friends; numerous app store options, and an entire other world of smartphone games I can play alone or with friends; inexpensive LLMs I can do almost anything I want to with, wherever my imagination takes m…
did you really not understand what the author meant by “internet” in the colloquial sense or are you being needlessly pedantic?
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I feel this is a slightly cruel comment. It’s a website of creativity, very well executed. Also, if you read the text, it is right. Some of the presentation (such as the inverted / mirrored square) is pure art. In an admirable sense: art. While I get the commentary — that bit reminded me of House of Leaves which has been criticized for the same thing — there’s a real human behind this, who obviously cares deeply abou…
> Sometimes I wonder, in the ease of critique, what it’s like for the anonymous person on the other end Here's a better look at how the "anonymous person on the other end" sees things [1]: > “i’m always polite to chat gpt so it remembers me later ” you are going to die from water-poison-related typhoid in the Great American Megadesert after a particularly nasty heat surge evaporates the rest of the drinkable rations.…
I just made a pretty strange one myself: https://currentcondition.tv I've added quite a few Easter eggs and a few old school games. Let me know what you think? Blue dots are locations of previous visitors.. it all works well on desktop, the games need a bit more love to work well on mobile.
It is cool but remember that not all the world uses Fahrenheit for temperature :)
Am I the only one who sees this as a referential homage to Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities"?
I just made a pretty strange one myself: https://currentcondition.tv I've added quite a few Easter eggs and a few old school games. Let me know what you think? Blue dots are locations of previous visitors.. it all works well on desktop, the games need a bit more love to work well on mobile.
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Exactly. Have you noticed that most of these 'weird web' sites don't actually talk about anything besides the web itself? Every other 'indie web' site I stumble upon is just about the indie web.... or worse, just a list of links pointing to other similar sites. There’s no real value here. No new info, no original content. Just clunky web design and rants about 'social media bad.' That’s not how the web actually was.…
You are clearly not browsing enough of these “weird web” sites if that’s your take. Or the only ones you’re clicking on are the ones that are posted here on HN. Try search something on https://wiby.me for example and then tell me if all you get are people writing about the web.
I spent a couple of hours on wiby.me browsing sites at random and it was amazing. Thank you for that.
However, 95% of the sites there haven't been updated in 15+ years. In fact, none of the 20+ sites I found through the 'surprise me' feature had any updates since the late 2000s (though I’m sure some out there have).
It gives me the impression that this 'let's get the web back' movement is mostly nostalgia. Culture happens where it happens, not where it should happen. Today, that place is unfortunately a walled garden controlled by corporations. I hope that changes, but judging by these websites, that change isn't happening yet.