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It's so nice to see these little pockets of the old-style web still thriving in some places.
by apetresc 8y ago
It's so nice to see these little pockets of the old-style web still thriving in some places.
- jpm_sd 8y agoAgreed. I don't know why this made the front page, but I love it.
- 2trill2spill 8y agoA blog post is the "old web" now?
- ExBritNStuff 8y agoA forum dedicated to a single topic is certainly getting less common, yes. I remember the Good Old Days(tm) of finding the best forums for whatever topics you were interested in. These days it's just old.reddit.com/r/whatever. I guess it makes it easier to find things, but less interesting and exciting.
- 2trill2spill 8y agoWhat? I visit forms dedicated to one thing all the time, like g35 driver, Focus RS forms, or forms dedicated to spaceflight, or programming, or stock or option trading. Single topic sites are very much plentiful.
- subway 8y agoI'm not convinced they're getting less common. If anything, it feels like new online communities keep popping up for various hobbies. It's just really easy to miss the communities unless you have a reason to join them. Pinball is a personal hobby of mine, and there's no shortage of active forums -- Pinside, Tilt Forums, even rec.games.pinball still sees daily posts. /r/pinball exists, of course, but you'd be hard pressed to find many folks who treat it as a daily destination. You'll find a lot of similar spaces in other hobbies.
- trentlott 8y agoThe problem is finding them. Back in the day, if I typed in "Radiohead" or "guitar pedal schematics" I would find forums or personal sites about these topics. Now I will find (1.) Stores (2.) Content aggregators Those niche forums and websites likely still exist, but it isn't obvious how to find them. The ones I frequent are insulated from the wider internet. The fact that these places are absorbed into the structure of Reddit is a shame: while it's easier, the discussion is constrained by what is possible on the platform. Static content is difficult to maintain, like discussions of album errata or the history of some circuit. This is probably just bias for the late-90s.
- vanderZwan 8y agoSomeone should make a search engine just for forums. Hey DDG peeps, if you stumble upon this comment: make a forums-only filter!
- tempestn 8y agoI pretty often find myself searching <keywords> + forum. Seems to work reasonably well.
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- vanderZwan 8y ago... or I could just start doing that, yes. But seriously, thanks for saving me from my own idiocy.
- fucking_tragedy 8y agoI've been using this pattern for over a decade. It's less useful now than it was in the past. I really miss Google's "Discussion" search filter.
- mkup 8y agoTry inurl:forum search operator in Google. Works suprisingly good.
- gnulinux 8y agoWait what? Do you know reddit.com? It's like one of the top 5 most popular websites and some subs are definitely nothing but old phpBB forums.
- hockeybias 8y agoI can loan you a clue if you need one...
- derekp7 8y agoIf you like old style web pages, that are packed with tons of information, check out http://www.quadibloc.com/ http://www.quadibloc.com/ which is some guy's "home page", overflowing with all kinds of topics that interest him. I personally like the sections on keyboard scan codes and slide rules. I wonder if anyone's published a good collection of pages like this?
- acqq 8y agoTo be fair, he has a newer main page: http://www.quadibloc.com/main.htm http://www.quadibloc.com/main.htm and there are really some nice articles. And he has an even older site: http://friedo.szm.com/krypto/JS/home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/frhome.htm http://friedo.szm.com/krypto/JS/home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/frho...
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- maxxxxx 8y agoNo up or downvotes!
- black-tea 8y agoBut this is not the original Web nor indeed what the Web was designed for at all. But it is cool and better than newsgroups I suppose.
- Zhenya 8y agoMy favorite personal site: http://www.otherhand.org/ http://www.otherhand.org/ And the best part: search for the death valley Germans. http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/ http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hun... Warning: you're about to spend a few hours of your life.