Mischa's Cursed Webring

Post by RGamma » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 11:03 PM UTC

nexthash wrote: post #60

RGamma wrote: post #59

Love this, there's so much personality in these. No JS cruft, no cosmetics, no filler, just cool (and in this case very weird) vibes. How far the web strayed from this, it's a shame really. The soul has left :/

I would disagree - the Web hasn't strayed, it's just gotten bigger. A lot more people on for a variety of reasons. If you look closely, you can still find creativity. For example, search up "digital gardens"

Post by jraines » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 11:28 PM UTC

Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #41

geocrasher wrote: post #40

Working 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 hoste…

At what point does appreciating content produced by the mental ill become exploitation of them? Gene Ray was clearly mentally ill, but few had any qualms about enjoying the WTF quality of the Time Cube website. Some of the classic twentieth-century art by outsider artists like Adolf Wölfli was in large part the consequence of their illness, and yet it is appreciated nevertheless, so couldn’t the same persist today fo…

Post by Hitton » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 11:37 PM UTC

simplecto wrote: post #49

sidpatil wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's like the Ling's Cars [1] of Java and Python software development. [1] https://www.lingscars.com/

I heard via LinkedIn she sold the business. I hope the character remains.

Post by imgabe » Sat, Mar 06, 2021, 1:21 AM UTC

emayljames wrote: post #33

All behold the latest in web design: https://www.cameronsworld.net/

Post by rlt » Sat, Mar 06, 2021, 3:50 AM UTC

johnfn wrote: post #38

analyte123 wrote: post #31

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.

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.