Doing crazy things with CSS, including animations, has never been easier or more consistent between browsers, and yet creativity in web design has gone down practically to zero these days. I blame mobile, where nobody can seem to escape from the "responsive column of blandly styled content" paradigm.
Mischa's Cursed Webring
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some of these sites are just dope, like this 3d graphing software site https://cursed.llolo.lol/dpgraph.com/ But have hideous design :D
As it turns out, these are real sites that got scraped. http://www.dpgraph.com/index.html works, and it looks like the software is free to download now. I’m too much of a chicken to try though...
A lot of these sites don't support HTTPS, so they can't be iframed without being mirrored
Re: Mischa's Cursed Webring
#33All behold the latest in web design: https://www.cameronsworld.net/
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t see how any of these is cursed really. I think it is fair to assume that most of these websites are the product of work and passion from individuals having put some time and effort into it. One can perceive them as ugly, outdated, funny, or even pointless (I don’t, but it’s not the point). But using a domain like cursed.lol and a vocabulary like “twisted brain” or “fucked up shit” (OP’s comment) is a bit too…
Respectfully disagree. I take delight in observing these artifacts, it's unfortunate you cannot.
Sorry if my comment wasn’t clear, I actually do enjoy browsing these websites. My concern is about the mocking tone I perceive from OP and the webring curator (not sure it’s the same person).
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#35I'm not really sure what's so "cursed" about this website? http://www.hytechshotz.com/default.asp The website design is pretty bad but based off of the OP saying "most of them are really deep and demonstrate some sort of twisted brain that was behind each site" I'm not really sure why this one is on the list.
I don’t see how any of these is cursed really. I think it is fair to assume that most of these websites are the product of work and passion from individuals having put some time and effort into it. One can perceive them as ugly, outdated, funny, or even pointless (I don’t, but it’s not the point). But using a domain like cursed.lol and a vocabulary like “twisted brain” or “fucked up shit” (OP’s comment) is a bit too…
Exactly my feeling: this is the opposite of the hacker-in-the-best-sense appreciation for things done out of passion and personal dedication, even when they're strange or seemingly useless. This tears down without offering anything better.
Re: Mischa's Cursed Webring
#36Had to throw http://durgasoft.com/ 's hat into the ring too for the garish web design subset.
Bleach my eyes
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#37This is extremely well done. Academically, I look forward to any attempt at criticizing this project. It's a tricky thought experiment.
If 'cursed' is derogatory, then it seems unfair/mean to call sites cursed just for not keeping up with current web design trends. Shouldn't we be better than that?
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#38Doing crazy things with CSS, including animations, has never been easier or more consistent between browsers, and yet creativity in web design has gone down practically to zero these days. I blame mobile, where nobody can seem to escape from the "responsive column of blandly styled content" paradigm.
My theory for why this is is that in the past when the web was arcane and challenging to learn to develop, this actually acted as a filter for people who had a special sort of intellectual curiosity and passion to really push through and make what they wanted to make. It’s great now that the web is so broadly accessible, but now no such filter exists, so truly creative sites are fewer and further between.
Re: Mischa's Cursed Webring
#39Had to throw http://durgasoft.com/ 's hat into the ring too for the garish web design subset.
It's like the Ling's Cars [1] of Java and Python software development.
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#40Working in web hosting, I've hosted many sites like this and had to deal with some of the people who've made them. And I have to say that while it's fun to point and laugh at the websites, there are a few of these in the ring that are borderline troubling. It is clear that their authors are suffering from some serious mental illnesses and at the very least some major delusions.
I recall a case years ago where I hosted a site for someone who appeared to be a paranoid schizophrenic. They called in one day complaining that we'd moved one of their HTML tables to the left by a few pixels. Another one was a website by somebody who was "exposing" their local municipality for doing things like charging for water and "illegally incarcerating" the website owner, who viewed their stints in a mental hospital as an attack to their freedom.
On the other hand, Lings Cars made it on this webring, and it's well deserved. That site is awesome and horrible at the same time, and it's designed to make us gawk at it for fun.