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”
Usenet and IRC. Roam the realms of your ancestors.
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.
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
Gopherspace, Gemini, and the smallweb/smolweb in general.
TV Tropes
Blogs. It’s amazing how many gems and great content are buried in countless blogs, maintained or abandoned.
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
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.
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.
https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random is a good place to discover personal websites, or less popular sites in general
Neocities. Hobbiest forums but they’re mostly moved to Facebook.
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.
