I run a personal blog at https://chadneu.com that has a pretty unique look and feel. It's a wordpress blog with a terminal style theme.
I prefer OG style websites – what are yours?
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#12I still maintain the Chronicles of George, which went live in Feb 2001 and whose design has more or less stayed exactly the same ever since:
https://chroniclesofgeorge.com
I eventually added proper css, bolted on https, and updated the html to something a little more modern and standards-compliant, but the site is still hand-coded, and looks pretty much the same as it has for a quarter-century.
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#13https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
https://www.vannattabros.com/dozer.html -- A detail page from the site, not well organized but so much great info about heavy equipment and logging.
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#14The most OG style website I actively use on a regular basis is https://www.rockauto.com
It's fast to navigate and order parts from, works on every browser I've ever tried it in, and loads very fast because there's minimal unnecessary components to the entire site. I hope they never change it :)
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#15I would be careful with calling that kind of design function over style. Modern UI design has its merits. But yes, good designs are not flashy, e.g. I love the design of Astro Starlight ( https://starlight.astro.build/ ), a starter kit for documentation pages. So I also took inspiration from "simple designs" for my personal site: https://bryanhogan.com/
> I would be careful with calling that kind of design function over style. Why?
For one, it is awful on mobile.
We can have bare, simple sites while still making them accessible.
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#17Where's that solar-powered website where the images are dithered
I guess it's this one https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
Also like the style of Japanese websites where they seem broken/don't expand to fit available screen but cool aesthetic still
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#18The most OG style website I actively use on a regular basis is https://www.rockauto.com It's fast to navigate and order parts from, works on every browser I've ever tried it in, and loads very fast because there's minimal unnecessary components to the entire site. I hope they never change it :)
Love rockauto, in the same vein, but not used daily is https://www.mcmaster.com/
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#19cybernetic culture research unit
I doubt it's currently maintained, but these esoteric sites are fun
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#20https://sfbay.craigslist.org/
My last use case for it was selling a car and giving away some free stuff. Sadly, those have been replaced by fb marketplace.