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Re: Does anyone remember websites?

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Post by dfps »

kaoD wrote: post #5

> This article can be discussed on r/TTTThis. Oh the irony. The web has changed: in some ways for the worse, and in others for the better. I remember websites being like a lottery: sometimes you'd hit jackpot but most of them were "Under construction" GIFs over ugly tiled backgrounds. There is still ton of content and much more than what I would've dreamt on the 90s. Platforms like Reddit allow everyone , whether the…

I didn't put discussion on the page in order to keep it as code-light as possible. Reddit is a good option for discussion (at the time of writing), especially considering I didn't want to clutter HN up with a discussion page for each article (no problem on a subreddit).

I agree with you on the value of reddit and platforms (and I actually value Facebook-type platforms as well, with the obvious qualifications), but the old html sites I write about here have a different type of construction, material, and value.

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Re: Does anyone remember websites?

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Post by nandemo »

themodelplumber wrote: post #8
jstimpfle wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think the author talks about hyperlinks. It's fine to have pages without them. What links do you miss?

> Some bigger websites at the time were like mazes with some of the words on each page hyperlinked to other pages on the site that were about each of those separate topics, and you had to open up multiple links from each page otherwise you'd lose them, and you wanted to read every word.

This was a nightmare before tabs were a thing.

Re: Does anyone remember websites?

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Post by dfps »

themodelplumber wrote: post #3

This is pretty harsh critique. I first got on the web in 1992 and what we have now is a paradise compared to what we had then. Sure, you may have to look with intent for what you want, but freely coasting around the web has always carried liabilities. It used to be "you'll find lots of junk" and the junk has simply diversified since then. I also noticed the author doesn't even use a single hyperlink in his own articl…

Actually, it wasn't meant as a critique, as I like most people highly value the modern internet.

I will be putting in more internal hyperlinks as I have more pages on the website to link to. Most of the articles there are still in progress, and this one is a sort of introduction to the HN community (which is my main source of news and analysis these days).

Please link me to your ham radio site when you get it ready for us. I'm also building a list of these types of blogs/sites.

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Re: Does anyone remember websites?

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Post by dfps »

themodelplumber wrote: post #8
jstimpfle wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think the author talks about hyperlinks. It's fine to have pages without them. What links do you miss?

> Some bigger websites at the time were like mazes with some of the words on each page hyperlinked to other pages on the site that were about each of those separate topics, and you had to open up multiple links from each page otherwise you'd lose them, and you wanted to read every word.

One notable example from the 90s that I was referring to with this statement was a site that had many, many pages about unusual science/mystery/gnosis/anarchism. I haven't been able to locate it.

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Re: Does anyone remember websites?

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Post by dfps »

ggambetta wrote: post #4

> Does anyone remember websites? These might be unfamiliar to anyone unexposed to the internet before 2005 or so [...] it was largely a collection of websites made by people who were interested in some subject enough to write about it and put it online. Does the author mean web rings? I do remember these :)

I wasn't exactly talking about webrings, but now I'd like to see one. Can you link me to one please?

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Re: Does anyone remember websites?

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Post by nandemo »

cocktailpeanuts wrote: post #10
alphaalpha101 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>There is still ton of content and much more than what I would've dreamt on the 90s. Platforms like Reddit allow everyone, whether they know HTML or not, to publish their own content and even comment on others'. The amount of good content on reddit is no larger than the amount of good content that existed before. The difference is now it's drowned out by all the Trump supporters.

Please don't bring politics into a thread that has nothing to do with politics

Besides, there's very little politics in niche subreddits. I'm subscribed to /r/pic (not /r/pics!), /r/flute, /r/stonerrock, /r/chess, /r/boardgames, /foreignmovies, /r/vermiculture and /r/japanlife and the latter is the only one where American politics sometimes creeps up.

Re: Does anyone remember websites?

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Post by [deleted] »

cocktailpeanuts wrote: post #10
alphaalpha101 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>There is still ton of content and much more than what I would've dreamt on the 90s. Platforms like Reddit allow everyone, whether they know HTML or not, to publish their own content and even comment on others'. The amount of good content on reddit is no larger than the amount of good content that existed before. The difference is now it's drowned out by all the Trump supporters.

Please don't bring politics into a thread that has nothing to do with politics

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Re: Does anyone remember websites?

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Post by tonyarkles »

Last night I ended up, for some weird nostalgic reason, installing a Gopher client, just to see if there was anything still around. Amazingly, there's a bunch of blogs (called phlogs in Gopherspace) that people are updating regularly! Pretty amazing!
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