wtf
It’s been running since 1999
You gotta wonder who’s been hosting, paying for said hosting, and maintaining (they moved to HTML5 a few years back) it all of these years. It is one of the longest running pieces of internet history and I love it
You can do anything at zombo.com
Whaat?! 🤣🤣 So random!
Hacker News is great because there a lots of interesting discussions and articles especually on Ask HN. It feels like a high quality tech/programming subreddit but without the disadvantages of reddit. https://news.ycombinator.com/
I’m conflicted on if I want to upvote this because I like HN or downvote it because I don’t want more people posting worse content there
The thing I love about HN is that it’s perfectly acceptable to browse at work since I would classify it as “industry news”
Blogs. It’s amazing how many gems and great content are buried in countless blogs, maintained or abandoned.
It has always been about the personal, non-blog (or not-just-blog) websites.
well, that and horserentals.com
I’m not sure what I expected from horserentals.com…
I feel like this is a parody but having seen the early days of the world wide web I know I’m mistaken.
Usenet and IRC. Roam the realms of your ancestors.
https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random is a good place to discover personal websites, or less popular sites in general
Interesting, thanks.
I used to be a mod on Nonsensopedia. https://nonsa.pl/wiki/Strona_głó It was a wikipedia-like thing, but with humorous stuff. I think it is abandonned now. There were a lot of garbage, but also some really well-written satires, that took a lot of writing skill of many authors to make. It is in polish, so most of you probabbly won’t be able to read it. Reading it through a translator is not a good idea, because it contains A LOT of language humor and references to polish culture/memes/politics
There was also a similar project in english (Uncyclopedia), but Nonsensopedia was way better https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Main_Page
The SCP wiki is always a fun place to lose a couple of hours. Here’s how they describe themselves:
The SCP Wiki is a collaborative speculative fiction website about the SCP Foundation, a secretive organization that contains anomalous or supernatural items and entities away from the eyes of the public.
And here’s an example page about a moth with mind control powers
I’ve spent so much time reading and listening to SCPs. Love that shit
Gopherspace, Gemini, and the smallweb/smolweb in general.
TV Tropes
I tried curating some on a sublemmy
if that doesn’t work it’s !coolwebsites@lemmy.ca C:
I tried curating some on a
sublemmycommunitySemantics, I know, but important to learn a new platform’s terminology.
Neocities. Hobbiest forums but they’re mostly moved to Facebook.
Wow I forgot about that
An old favourite of mine http://muffinfilms.com/
I didn’t know this was the same person who made the Making Fiends animations until I clicked on the giftshop link.
Neocities! It’s a spiritual successor to Geocities from ye olde internet, and it rocks. Poke through the directory of sites, there’s some wild stuff on there.
It’s a great place to go if you are learning web design and want to practice what you’ve learned without having to pay an arm and a leg for a site.
