cozy 90s BBS forums, obscure blogs, etc.
Pretty much all of the FSF and GNU websites.
What websites still feel like the old internet?
Submitted 1 year ago by _number8_@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Aw i miss when website tracking was only “xxxx users have visited this page” and it was just a simple counter that counted up.
Broken@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Don’t forget signing the guest list.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I remember being so proud when I implemented that on my first website.
flames5123@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
masterbaexunn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!
lnxtx@feddit.nl 1 year ago
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not the original, but…
Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
davidgro@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you want one that isn’t actually from that time, just feels like it, I’d say tildes.net
HidingUnderHats@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
minibyte@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
bobistheoilguy.com and the oil forums.
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Florida’s unemployment website
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wimp.com
Irregular webcomics
Dinosaur comics (qwantz.com)
Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Anything they use at my work lol
njordomir@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I love the old simple powerful websites at companies I’ve worked for. It’s when they add a bunch of whitespace and a chatbot that they really start to go to hell.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Yeah nah, this is old late 00s web sites that’s have to load whenever you change something.
Toes@ani.social 1 year ago
ccp@lemy.lol 1 year ago
neopets.com/neoboards/boardlist.phtml?board=55
fixed
Toes@ani.social 1 year ago
They both look the same on mobile. 🤷🏻♀️
hperrin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh man, fuck Bryan Lunduke. He aged like milk.
4z01235@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s pretty niche, but alternativess.com (sport archery retailer)
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 year ago
DrunkenPirate@feddit.org 1 year ago
django@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year 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.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hubski
surfrock66@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fark.com
Peffse@lemmy.world 1 year ago
gradients, animated GIFs, “best browsed on”, and a frame once you click enter. Only thing it’s missing is an index page.
ABCDE@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Excellent example.
tal@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Kernel.org, home of the Linux kernel, hasn’t changed much.
Kernel.org today:
Kernel.org in 1998:
toddestan@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Along the same lines,
slackware.org today:
slackware.org in 2001:
tal@lemmy.today 1 year 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 1 year 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.
etchinghillside@reddthat.com 1 year ago
I haven’t visited in a long time – but I can’t imagine Craigslist has changed much.
olympicyes@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
astanix@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It has not, though there really isn’t much posted there anymore. Facebook marketplace has replaced it for most stuff. :(
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What about craigslist casual encounters? I’d love to see facebook’s attempt at that.
ABCDE@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Depends where you live.
Telorand@reddthat.com 1 year 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.
Telorand@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Zombo.com
AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Came looking for zombo.com. Was not disappointed.
But then, zombo.com is the old Internet.
superkret@feddit.org 1 year ago
All of them, is you browse with Links.
lnxtx@feddit.nl 1 year ago
For better experience I recommend
elinks.
Still in active development.superkret@feddit.org 1 year ago
pretty sure links is just a link to elinks now in most distros.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 year ago
https://wwww.badgerbadgerbadger.com
Except my browser blocked the audio by default, wtf.
Valmond@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Your link seems to be incorrectly formatted.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Whoops, thanks, fixed it!