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To me, the best "old internet" site is Wikipedia. Although they also partially succumbed to madness of breaking the web (opening images in JavaScript popups?? b

To me, the best "old internet" site is Wikipedia. Although they also partially succumbed to madness of breaking the web (opening images in JavaScript popups?? breaking the "Back" browser button??) it's mostly a well-done clean HMLL/CSS site which has everything you want. I even treat it as "slow news" source [1], instead of MSM. In a way, they have outperformed Google at Google's vision of organizing the world's information. That's why I try to donate as much as I can every year. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kincade_Fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kincade_Fire

zozbot234 7y ago
> ...organizing the world's information... Wikipedia is even pushing further forward on that vision with Wikidata, a general-purpose knowledge base that's perhaps the most successful example of such a thing, succeeding where many other efforts have failed dismally. (Already, Wikidata gets more edits per minute than Wikipedia, albeit much of the activity is performed by bots.) It's also a successful use of Linked-Open-Data and Semantic-Web technologies (the Wikidata site hosts a SPARQL endpoint, for general queries of all sorts), so while it might not be "Old Web" per se, it feels quite retro-futuristic in many ways. And of course, all the well-known personal assistant AI's rely on it quite a bit, although they're not eager to advertise that fact.
JohnFen 7y ago
> To me, the best "old internet" site is Wikipedia. Thanks for making me feel old. I really think of Wikipedia as part of the "new" internet, not the old one. Now, get off of my lawn, you whippersnappers!