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Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

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Post by warning26 »

JJMcJ wrote: post #116
3cats-in-a-coat wrote: post #103

I actually love this, and I bookmarked it. Why? Not just because of nostalgia. Web 1.0 sites had a different set of UI idioms, which seem unintuitive to us, as we're too set in our new ways now. If you get past the fact they're ugly by modern standards, you'll see these sites accomplishing amazing results through startlingly simple means. It's an excellent source of inspiration, and if you combine those ideas with mo…

Once in a while you hit a really ancient site that is CSS free. Like the original CERN sites. They seem strange but navigation is usually absolutely clear and they are lightening fast.

Another interesting aspect of these classic sites is that they’re pretty much completely compatible with screen readers with zero additional effort.

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Post by Finnucane »

mulmen wrote: post #111
RGamma wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The MSM/MEM as population control vehicle/idiot honeypot is a salient angle though you quickly get into self-fulfilling prophecy stuff there. Perhaps it's me being overly pessimistic, but I too might have been captured by the mind-rot matrix if I had grown up with that shit, never knowing what was or could be.

The web isn’t going to help there. Crackpots made websites too. You aren’t responsible for what other people do. Just live your own life.

http://www.crank.net/

Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

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Post by mulmen »

RGamma wrote: post #132
mulmen wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The web isn’t going to help there. Crackpots made websites too. You aren’t responsible for what other people do. Just live your own life.

I'm not and yet the fate of a population is not arbitrary. MSM is society-level technology and it's clearly doing something to it that would not have happened in its absence. I'm seeing it in personal acquaintances, who get lost in the information garbage sphere and struggle to contextualize the places that unfavorably shape their belief system (not talking about niche crackpot sites, but trash media here). This is t…

What do you mean by MSM? To me that is “mainstream media”. I don’t understand how that is applicable here.

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Post by rhymeswithjazz »

dehue wrote: post #39

Wow, I was not expecting to be taken to such an interesting website on my first click: http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/ This site has an underground cave directory by state, cave virtual tours with photos, cave type descriptions, cave photography tips and much more. I may just use this website to plan my next road trip and explore some caves.

There are three links at the bottom of that page that all still work. I'm a little surprised that link rot hasn't caught up to them.

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Post by axpy906 »

data-ottawa wrote: post #129
yawnxyz wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That page / design looks oddly modern and relevant, despite it being 20+ years old...

I think the design has been updated, the LaTeX equations aren’t transparent gifs like the days of old.

Yes, if you look at the bottom it’s got updated citations from the 2010’s.

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Post by data-ottawa »

SeanAnderson wrote: post #34
rwky wrote: post #19

It took me here https://greem.co.uk/otherbits/jelly.html Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? Which I think is HN worthy in its own right. Also the author of that page and I have the same toaster.

> Further research into the area might involve the nailing to the wall of a stronger jelly mix. Alternatively, the "wall" could be placed, nails first, into the jelly while it's setting, to allow the jelly to set around the nails. Then in the morning the bowl can be removed, leaving the jelly nailed to the wall. Ahaha, but also, hmmm... thinking would it actually work if you allowed the jelly to set around the nails?

If you read further some commenters tried that and failed, along with setting straws into the jelly and nailing them and mixing solids into the jelly to improve the structural integrity. The results are only noted as mixed, so I assume they didn’t work out reliably.

I definitely have a few ideas: try smoother and surfaces to adhere to (does jelly suction to the surface?), set the jelly vertically in a box against the wall, try mixing cool whip into the jelly to thicken it…

Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

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Post by varjag »

mulmen wrote: post #88
petetnt wrote: post #42

It's awesome how you can stumble upon sites that are so funny or interesting (in multiple ways) that you just want to share them immediately forward. Everyone says it but it's true: something just got lost in translation when social media pages ate the whole internet.

They didn’t eat the entire Internet. They didn’t even eat the web. They set up parallel walled gardens. The web is still there. Personal websites just don’t scale to the masses. This is fine and probably for the best.

It's a nice theory if not for the fact that one never seem to run into things like these off Web searches.
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