yo. where do you like to go on the internet?
name your favorite websites (better if niche), your favorite communities (again, better if niche), interesting instagram pages, interesting profiles to follow on any social media, podcasts, web forums, discord server, strange exotic communities, tumblr, horny stuff, videos, whatever. Don’t self censor yourself please!
(cross-posted: https://hexbear.net/post/415928)
One of my favorite sites: https://www.windows93.net/
There is also this one; it’s an actual genuine Windows 95 running on WASM in your browser
Running Win95 on a cell phone.
Damn thats wild! I remember I wished I could run Windows on a phone back in 00-ish instead of those crappy, brand-specific phone OS’s. What else was I gonna use a phone for, its not like I had anyone to call. Now I can.
Still nobody to call, though…
ok this is cool
I had to find the author: http://jankenpopp.com/ and he is so creative and skilled. wonderful stuff, and great link, thanks!
This blog is incredible:
https://ciechanow.ski/archives/
There aren’t many articles, but the ones that exist have been crafted with EXTREME attention to detail and DELIGHTFULLY interactive animations. I would recommend the mechanical watch and internal combustion engine posts specifically to start. If you like knowing how things work, this guys blog scratches that itch better than like, anything else I have found for the specific things he makes posts about. Have fun, be prepared to kill a few hours.
This is amazing stuff!
https://cari.institute/aesthetics
Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute, it’s a neat website showing design trends in advertising, packaging, print, etc throughout the years.
Yeah, this is dope. Thanks
this is incredibly cool omg!!! thank you!
I love blogs, specially from people with niche interests and experiences. I follow them via RSS. So that’s what I read outside of Lemmy / Reddit / Mastodon.
Recently I’ve been following the blog written by an IT guy working in a research station in Antarctica (also has a great domain name).
ahah wow thanks! how did you find it? the post about south pole signage is kinda hilarious https://brr.fyi/posts/south-pole-signage
I subscribe to the top submissions on hacker news via RSS: https://hnrss.github.io/
It’s 99% tech, but every once in a while you get an interesting post from a blog about something else. I then subscribe directly to the blogs I want to keep reading.
I’ve just been slowly curating my RSS feed for years. I like the high signal-to-noise ratio it provides me.
Thanks for posting this! You’ve given me a new rabbit hole to go down
you can do everything!
I might be boring here, but outside of Lemmy, none of the websites I frequent are niche.
YouTube, Wikipedia, Fanfiction.net, Archive of Our Own, MAL, sci-hub, eBay, TV Tropes, Reddit (though I only read now, I don’t participate in the discussions since July).
fuck yeah fanfiction.net and Tv Tropes! Loved those back in the day.
What do you like to watch on youtube?
A wide variety of content. I really like watching cooking related channels like Food Wishes, Alex (French Guy Cooking), Ethan Chlebowski, Jun’s Kitchen, Italia Squisita, ETC.
For tech I like Level1Techs and related channels, Serve the Home, MKBHD, Der8auer, Jeff Geerling, Gamer’s Nexus, Northwest Repair, Louis Rossmann, maker.moekoe.
For science I like Huygens Optics, The Thought Emporium, Veritasium, Dr. Becky, AlphaPhoenix, Steve Mould, and many others.
For music, I like Polyphia, Ichika Nito, BERNTH, CharlesBerthoud, BAND-MAID, Paolo Gans, Ado, Syudou, ELFENSJóN, ETC…
For fountain pens I like Flexperiments (the channel has 237 subbs, but really deserves more), and Doodlebud.
Others: Not Just Bikes, GxAce, Tom Scott, Inheritance Machining, The Bioneer.
awesome! i am going to check those, I just knew few of them (Veritasium, CharlesBerthoud, Louis Rossmann, Italia Squisita, etc)
Let me know which categories interest you, I may have more recommendations.
Someone posted a link to this site the other day and now I’m hooked https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/
I love websites with some real curatorial effort. Thank you for the link!
Simon Tatham’s Puzzle Collection. Just a bunch of cool puzzles for wasting time. No ads or bells and whistles.
You can download them or just play in the browser. Someone also made the collection into an Android app, which I usually use.
It’s German but this guy has been blogging since the beginning of time http://blog.fefe.de/
https://gurushots.com/ photography challenges, quite fun.
https://flickr.com/ photography community
I translated some stuff in that German blog. It’s kinda wild, vaccination damage and the KGB mixed with more far right conspiracy theories and then just general normal stuff.
It can be amusing, I used to read there regularly too, but taking it too seriously is a bad idea.
I guess from a quick look and with the translation the nuances of the conspiracy theories mentioned might not quite be obvious. But when you read it in German it’s more obvious that he’s making fun of (let’s say) most of them.
That guy is a security auditor of software as his main job and this blog is just his pet project on the side.
[edit] but yeah it’s quite a wild ride, that’s what is the appeal for many people like me.
I still use Reddit, just not on my phone since their app suck and is full of ads.
free-mp3-download.net for stealing FLACs from Deezer. frogfind.com - search engine (or rather proxy) for vintage computers gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/world is a cool directory of gopher links. There’s also Veronica-2 search engine. You’ll need a browser that supports gopher protocol, from the top of my head I can name bombadillo, lynx and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or lower. WWW Images starter packs:
https://www.tau.ac.il/images/Images.html
http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/images/Images.html
http://www.it.uu.se/pics/ Meteor M-N2-3 satellite LRPT operational status rtl-sdr.com - RTL-SDR blog. I just found they released RTL-SDRv4 😲 and it’s even cheaper than previous model!Direct audio stream list of my favorite internet radios
Radio rock:
http://stream.bauermedia.sk/rock-hi.mp3
http://stream.bauermedia.sk/rock-lo.mp3Radio1:
http://play.global.audio/radio1.aac 48kbps
http://play.global.audio/radio1.ogg
http://play.global.audio/radio1.opus
http://play.global.audio/radio1128 128kbps
http://play.global.audio/radio164 48kbps
http://play.global.audio/radio1_low.ogg
http://play.global.audio/radio1hi.aac 128kbps
https://playerservices.streamtheworld.com/api/livestream-redirect/RADIO_1AAC_L.aac
https://playerservices.streamtheworld.com/api/livestream-redirect/RADIO_1AAC_H.aacaNONradio:
http://anonradio.net:8000/anonradio telnet telehack.com- There’seliza, an early AI chatbot made in 1966. AI chatbots aren’t such a new thing.Love those radio rock stations, thanks for sharing those!
this is a wonderful list! i will take the time to go thru it; so far i loved the WWW Images, so old school. I want to use them on my website. free-mp3-download also seems awesome. thank you for sharing!
Every mon/wed/fri I open tabs of some webcomics I follow:
I’ve followed a lot of other comics, but these have been updated VERY damn reliably for a long time.
I never heard of them! thank you!
btw, you might be interested in this little discussion that we had about webcomics at the other place https://hexbear.net/comment/3811311
Hackaday.com is my favourite blog on the Internet and I’ve been reading it for over a decade, it never gets boring.
