cozy 90s BBS forums, obscure blogs, etc.
Aw i miss when website tracking was only “xxxx users have visited this page” and it was just a simple counter that counted up.
Submitted 3 days ago by _number8_@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
cozy 90s BBS forums, obscure blogs, etc.
Aw i miss when website tracking was only “xxxx users have visited this page” and it was just a simple counter that counted up.
Don’t forget signing the guest list.
I remember being so proud when I implemented that on my first website.
THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!
Yep! I did it for a final project, called DANK WEB. We implemented an airhorn counter. We found out the day before that it just stored the value it saw +1 to the DB so a bad actor could reset the count. Then we easily figured out that we could just reference the DB so we fixed the bad actor part.
We got a 98 on the final. It was the most fun I had on a project in all of college.
Zombo.com
Came looking for zombo.com. Was not disappointed.
But then, zombo.com is the old Internet.
How is it that 2 days after this posted no one has said “Craigslist.”
people often say they can find this kind of thing via my employer, Mojeek: www.mojeek.com
I haven’t visited in a long time – but I can’t imagine Craigslist has changed much.
It has not, though there really isn’t much posted there anymore. Facebook marketplace has replaced it for most stuff. :(
This was mentioned on another post a few months ago, but it depends on your locale. In some places, it’s Craigslist. Others, FB Marketplace.
What about craigslist casual encounters? I’d love to see facebook’s attempt at that.
Depends where you live.
Craigslist is slightly cleaner looking that it used to be but the functionality and button placement is identical. I much prefer it to Facebook marketplace or OfferUp.
https://www.spacejam.com/1996/jam.html
I’m pretty sure spacejam.com showed that page up until the sequel supplanted it.
From a time when websites used <table>
or position: absolute
to place elements on the screen. That website is just one big table.
I feel that right in the MySpace.
Kernel.org, home of the Linux kernel, hasn’t changed much.
Kernel.org today:
Kernel.org in 1998:
Along the same lines,
slackware.org today:
slackware.org in 2001:
Pretty much all of the FSF and GNU websites.
wow nobody mentioned www.lingscars.com
All of them, is you browse with Links.
For better experience I recommend elinks
.
Still in active development.
pretty sure links is just a link to elinks now in most distros.
Florida’s unemployment website
Ebay
I imagine their source code is such an unmaintainable mess that it’s impossible to modernize
it was written in FORTRAN
Not a website, but since you mention BBSes…one thing that would look pretty familiar to a 1990s Internet user would be most of the text-based MUDs that are around.
The MUD Connector is still around, and still has a list.
While I suspect that dedicated MUDders use dedicated clients, the base protocol is still normally telnet, a protocol that predates Internet Protocol itself.
I still mud on occasion. I used TinyFugue back when i started mudding in 88 or 89 (maybe lot was 89/90). I then used zMUD and later cMUD for years. Now I use MUDlet.
www.Zombo.com
That is probably the best website on the internet!
https://wwww.badgerbadgerbadger.com
Except my browser blocked the audio by default, wtf.
Your link seems to be incorrectly formatted.
Whoops, thanks, fixed it!
If you want one that isn’t actually from that time, just feels like it, I’d say tildes.net
I have the suprise page set as start page in my browser, so i get a surprise website, when i open a browser window.
Not the original, but…
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.
Debian’s website….
hey, thats not fair, they redid it a few years back /s
search.marginalia.nu is a search engine for non-commercial content and is pretty great regarding the old-school factor :-)
TIL Timecube is no longer up. That was my go to site for what the internet used to be like.
aw man that site was like Dr Bronner’s took some digital mushrooms
voluble@lemmy.ca 2 days 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.