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.
What websites still feel like the old internet?
Submitted 4 weeks ago by _number8_@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I remember being so proud when I implemented that on my first website.
masterbaexunn@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!
flames5123@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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.
Broken@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Don’t forget signing the guest list.
voluble@lemmy.ca 4 weeks 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.
etchinghillside@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
I haven’t visited in a long time – but I can’t imagine Craigslist has changed much.
astanix@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It has not, though there really isn’t much posted there anymore. Facebook marketplace has replaced it for most stuff. :(
Telorand@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
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.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
What about craigslist casual encounters? I’d love to see facebook’s attempt at that.
ABCDE@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Depends where you live.
olympicyes@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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.
Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
tal@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Kernel.org, home of the Linux kernel, hasn’t changed much.
Kernel.org today:
Kernel.org in 1998:
toddestan@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Along the same lines,
slackware.org today:
slackware.org in 2001:
Synthuir@lemmy.ml 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
I feel that right in the MySpace.
foster@lemmy.fosterhangdaan.com 4 weeks ago
Pretty much all of the FSF and GNU websites.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
superkret@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
All of them, is you browse with Links.
lnxtx@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
For better experience I recommend
elinks.
Still in active development.superkret@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
pretty sure links is just a link to elinks now in most distros.
JDPoZ@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
How is it that 2 days after this posted no one has said “Craigslist.”
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Florida’s unemployment website
tal@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
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.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
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.
davidgro@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If you want one that isn’t actually from that time, just feels like it, I’d say tildes.net
DrunkenPirate@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
django@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
I have the suprise page set as start page in my browser, so i get a surprise website, when i open a browser window.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
https://wwww.badgerbadgerbadger.com
Except my browser blocked the audio by default, wtf.
Valmond@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Your link seems to be incorrectly formatted.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Whoops, thanks, fixed it!
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Not the original, but…
jaxiiruff@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
wow nobody mentioned www.lingscars.com
Akinzekeel@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Ebay
I imagine their source code is such an unmaintainable mess that it’s impossible to modernize
mPony@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
it was written in FORTRAN
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 weeks ago
www.Zombo.com
Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That is probably the best website on the internet!
lnxtx@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
marlowe221@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Debian’s website….
mr_pip@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
hey, thats not fair, they redid it a few years back /s
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
search.marginalia.nu is a search engine for non-commercial content and is pretty great regarding the old-school factor :-)
HidingUnderHats@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They are trying to be 90s, but I love it. I thought they had a site counter at some point, but maybe I am misremembering and it was just the guest book.
MadBob@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
surfrock66@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Fark.com
Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
TIL Timecube is no longer up. That was my go to site for what the internet used to be like.
mPony@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
aw man that site was like Dr Bronner’s took some digital mushrooms
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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.
Telorand@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
Zombo.com
AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Came looking for zombo.com. Was not disappointed.
But then, zombo.com is the old Internet.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Image