cozy 90s BBS forums, obscure blogs, etc.
Lookup brutalist websites or the gemini protocol.
What websites still feel like the old internet?
Submitted 1 year ago by _number8_@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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0x0@programming.dev 1 year ago
EwonRael@lemmy.world 1 year ago
fanzel@lemm.ee 1 year ago
textfiles.com still looks like the 90s. It has stories, jokes, essays, and generally interesting stuff.
JDPoZ@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How is it that 2 days after this posted no one has said “Craigslist.”
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
voluble@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It’s not obscure, but, for me, Wikipedia is the ultimate example of the old internet that still persists today.
Free to use, no account required, ad free, non-corporate, multilingual, heavily biased toward text, simple and utilitarian design. Hyperlinks concatenate relevant pieces of information, which serve as the means to navigate the site. The code is very simple (seriously, view the page source of a wikipiedia article). It’s based on the human desire to learn and share knowledge with others, and has remained resilient to corruption by commercial interests that pervert that desire for monetary gain. It’s a beautiful thing.
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
4-ch.net (not to be confused with 4chan) is a 90s BBS that is still online and occasionally active. It’s neat to see posts from the 90s still on the front page.
WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Sites that have old forums. There aren’t many anymore, but ones I’ve seen that have been very helpful of late include car sites, a timeshare forum, and the Fantasy Grounds forum (my virtual tabletop of choice).
I’m sure there are others out there, but it’s definitely more rare than it used to be. Is Something Awful still around?
ThatKomputerKat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
jaxiiruff@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
wow nobody mentioned www.lingscars.com
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
kmartburrito@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ace_garp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
everything2.com/…/An Introduction to Everything2 - massively interlinked information site
www.dieselsweeties.com - robots and people comic
realultimatepower.net - ninjas
uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Has Real Ultimate Power actually changed at all/added new content? I was reading that in elementary.
ace_garp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nope, exact same html.
brandocorp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I see YouTube videos linked, and I remember being on this site before YouTube existed. I don’t think it has changed all that much, though.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
www.Zombo.com
Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That is probably the best website on the internet!
Decipher0771@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Dot@feddit.org 1 year ago
MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Akinzekeel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ebay
I imagine their source code is such an unmaintainable mess that it’s impossible to modernize
mPony@lemmy.world 1 year ago
it was written in FORTRAN
marlowe221@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Debian’s website….
mr_pip@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
hey, thats not fair, they redid it a few years back /s
Wildly_Utilize@infosec.pub 1 year ago
No JavaScript sites on onionland
spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Extremely useful website for collectors of dead media formats (LD, D-VHS, HD-DVD, CED, VHD, etc.) Still has an old style interface with priority given to function and utility over styling. Also has a storefront where you can buy and sell discs.
Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
TIL Timecube is no longer up. That was my go to site for what the internet used to be like.
mPony@lemmy.world 1 year ago
aw man that site was like Dr Bronner’s took some digital mushrooms
perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Synthuir@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
https://www.spacejam.com/1996/jam.html
I’m pretty sure spacejam.com showed that page up until the sequel supplanted it.
foster@lemmy.fosterhangdaan.com 1 year ago
From a time when websites used
<table>orposition: absoluteto place elements on the screen. That website is just one big table.sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I feel that right in the MySpace.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My healthcare services websites. Their website and mobile app require separate logins. The website logs in then redirects to a completely different website.
They have a tax-free “store” that feels like a completely different website.
Everything is laid out using what seems like the idea of middle management and not modern design philosophy.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
TreasuryDirect also feels classic. If you’re not familiar, it’s a US government website to buy and sell certain types of treasury bonds. Some great features:
- an image so you know you didn’t typo your username (haven’t seen that in well over a decade)
- clicking a link is a new page, and clicking back breaks stuff and makes you login again
- until recently, you couldn’t paste in the password field
It does do some modern-ish things with page layout, but not that modern, like maybe early 2000s modern. But it’s perennially stuck about 20 years in the past.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
search.marginalia.nu is a search engine for non-commercial content and is pretty great regarding the old-school factor :-)
LucidBoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
most private trackers
PrivacyDingus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
people often say they can find this kind of thing via my employer, Mojeek: www.mojeek.com