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Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?
What are some of your favorite websites you've ever come across on the internet? And why?
List for whatever reason.. the most obscure, interesting design, the worst design, etc.
I'm waiting to see some exciting findings.
- deephdave 5y agohttps://readup.com https://readup.com It helps to read the articles/blogs clutter-free. Tracks the % of reading, you can share your thoughts only after finishing reading at 90%.
- denton-scratch 5y agoOuch: "most unique".
- oeieog 5y agohttps://www.lingscars.com/ https://www.lingscars.com/
- kandruszkow 5y agoWell, that one was a shock; I don't even have to ask why hahah
- dstick 5y agoThat was amazing! Love Ling!
- jzawodn 5y agoI came here to say the same. Best of the Internet.
- Nextgrid 5y agoNot sure if it's just me or if it's not as bad as I remember it back in the day? Maybe my ad-blocker is interfering or Safari simply can't keep up with this level of madness?
- theartfuldodger 5y agoLing has definitely updated the site but the source code still has it's great art.
- aasasd 5y agoAfaik there's a whole team working on the site. They gave talks about it, and videos of those are on YT.
- forinti 5y agoI loved the source code.
- ramesh31 5y agoLegitimately one of the best web sites ever made
- unnouinceput 5y agoQuote: "Made in the People's Republic of China (Ling, not the website... which was handcrafted by Ling, in the UK)" Definitely the guy has a great humor.
- dazc 5y agoLing is a woman :) I once asked her for advice about a website I was developing and she very kindly gave me some very detailed feedback. You can probably guess what her advice was and I will always regret not having the nerve to follow it.
- aasasd 5y agoPerhaps it's not too late to make another site.
- waterpowder 5y agoLing's a girl
- unnouinceput 5y agoNow that you mention it and taking a closer look, it does look like one, but when I first took the look at the site my brain said "it's a guy".
- jorgesborges 5y agoAh, a squeeze-brains section -- nice. <!-- <div class="squeeze-brains"> <img class="brain-head" src="https://images.lingscars.com/images/brains/ling-brain-head-index.png" alt="Ling top of her head" /> <img class="brain-body" src="https://images.lingscars.com/images/brains/ling-brain-body-index.png" alt="Ling wide open head with brains" /> <img class="brain-eyes" src="https://images.lingscars.com/images/brains/ling-eyes-detail.png" alt="Ling's crossed eyes detail" /> <img class="brain-splat" src="https://images.lingscars.com/images/brains/ling-brain-splat-index.png" alt="Ling's brain blood splat" /> <img class="brain-title-1" src="https://images.lingscars.com/images/brains/title-1.png" alt="Brains section title part 1" /> <img class="brain-title-2" src="https://images.lingscars.com/images/brains/title-2-index.png" alt="Brains section title part 2" /> <a href="/brains">Squeeze now!</a> </div> -->
- aasasd 5y agoNote: the site works quite differently on phones, without changing the address.
- moviewise 5y agohttps://moviewise.wordpress.com/ https://moviewise.wordpress.com/
- kandruszkow 5y agoIt is undoubtedly a very INTERESTING website
- porbelm 5y agohttps://zombo.com/ https://zombo.com/
- unfocussed_mike 5y agoQuite right. You can do anything at zombocom.
- fsflover 5y agohttps://wiby.me/ https://wiby.me/ Web search for pages which are "simple in design. Simple HTML, non-commerical sites are preferred. Pages should not use much scripts/css for cosmetic effect."
- faeyanpiraat 5y agoThe criteria of sharing a site is so lax, I’m kinda afraid of opening them.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- auslegung 5y agoPeace River Campground because as recently as 2020 it looked like a geocities site https://web.archive.org/web/20200125200754/https://peacerivercampground.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200125200754/https://peacerive.... The site map is a map of the campsite :D
- 0xedb 5y agohttps://bruno-simon.com/ https://bruno-simon.com/ A fun, interactive WebGL personal site
- artistminute 5y agoworked for me. Cool website!
- can16358p 5y agoI tap start, a rectangle with height with animated strips appear, and nothing else happens?
- bckr 5y agoI'm curious what browser you're using. This works for me on desktop and mobile chrome
- komain7 5y agoEpic!
- pmarreck 5y agowow, amazing
- drawfloat 5y agoSeems to be broken on iOS. Tap the button and a square appears, but nothing else.
- jrwr 5y agohttps://jrwr.io https://jrwr.io -- It's my personal website with a fun "fake" terminal with a custom command set with a set of challenges to solve to gain more access levels in the machine. Its been fun to watch the commands come in.
- fao_ 5y agoWould be nice if clicking the off button closed the tab
- jrwr 5y agoThat is kinda hard to do in modern browsers, My main want is to blink the HDD light when you are typing, just never got around to it.
- WesSouza 5y agoNice, I did that in 2014: https://wes.dev/archive/2014/ https://wes.dev/archive/2014/ (try typing dir)
- typest 5y agoIt’s well known, but https://slatestarcodex.com/ https://slatestarcodex.com/ was the best I ever found for just really interesting and thought provoking essays that changed my mind.
- bristleworm 5y agoyes, and concerning this we should also add it's successor: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ https://astralcodexten.substack.com/
- Thooms 5y agohttps://zen.ly https://zen.ly !
- fao_ 5y agohttps://zombo.com https://zombo.com
- acheron 5y agoThe only limit is yourself.
- pmarreck 5y agoTo this day, it's the only time I got over a minute of laughter out of someone (to the point that they cried) simply by showing them a thing they haven't seen before (this site, back when it was still new). Its absurdity can kill you, lol.
- warning26 5y agoThis is the correct answer
- satsuma 5y agobut did you sign up for the newzletter?
- nuclearsugar 5y agoThe unattainable is unknown!
- mrdobelina 5y agoI love this. I feel much more powerful with this in background.
- blueprint 5y agohttp://members.tripod.com/tathagata2000 http://members.tripod.com/tathagata2000
- fgkramer 5y agohttps://zoomquilt.org/ https://zoomquilt.org/
- kgran 5y agohttp://ninjaflex.com/ http://ninjaflex.com/
- tanbogy 5y ago[dead]
- elsombrero 5y agohttps://thebestmotherfucking.website/ https://thebestmotherfucking.website/
- fsflover 5y agohttps://ultimatemotherfuckingwebsite.com/ https://ultimatemotherfuckingwebsite.com/
- zeepzeep 5y agohttp://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
- ergonaught 5y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20150506055228/http://www.timecube.com/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20150506055228/http://www.timecu...
- fsloth 5y agonews.ycombinator.com For the reasons we come here year after year.
- G4E 5y agoI'm surprised TempleOs hasn't been mentionned yet ! https://templeos.org/ https://templeos.org/
- pluc 5y ago2advanced.net 15-20 years ago
- runlevel1 5y agoIt was flash, so here are a couple videos of what it looked like: 2Advanced v2 (2001): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWkNkQoQY_8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWkNkQoQY_8 2Advanced v4 (2003): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM_JNqFCvyo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM_JNqFCvyo For context on the time period, most people were on Windows 98 and IE6 was brand spanking new. This was truly mind blowing stuff.
- ryannevius 5y agohttp://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
- verelo 5y agoOr it’s crypto native friend: https://thousandetherhomepage.com/ https://thousandetherhomepage.com/
- worldmerge 5y agoWow, I didn't know you could load assets from a chain on the web. That's pretty cool. I really want to learn distributed systems stuff like that this year: Blockchain/ipfs/ p2p / etc.
- Nextgrid 5y ago> I didn't know you could load assets from a chain on the web Presumably it's just using a proxy? As far as I know there's still no way to have the browser interact with the blockchain directly unless you use a non-standard extension like MetaMask.
- verelo 5y agoJS can interact with an RPC endpoint directly, but the individual would have to provide one (either as you're suggesting via a proxy) or directly in code. This project is actually by a friend of mine, i should ask him...ive never bothered despite also working in the web3 space myself. All our work is done server side, so we just use our own RPC endpoints and nothing is shared with the public.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoI got you, fam https://dannarchy.com/ https://dannarchy.com/ https://dreamcult.xyz/ https://dreamcult.xyz/ https://stonepages.com/ https://stonepages.com/ http://spacekate.com/ http://spacekate.com/ https://wiki.xxiivv.com/ https://wiki.xxiivv.com/ http://sod.jodi.org/ http://sod.jodi.org/ http://www.lileks.com/ http://www.lileks.com/
- daniel-s 5y agoDo you keep a catalogue of these?
- marginalia_nu 5y agoYeah, gotta catch 'em all and all that. https://memex.marginalia.nu/links/bookmarks.gmi https://memex.marginalia.nu/links/bookmarks.gmi https://memex.marginalia.nu/links/fragments-old-web.gmi https://memex.marginalia.nu/links/fragments-old-web.gmi
- ecliptik 5y agoYour site design is really nice. Original and much different than the usual navigation patterns you see and I like it's on both http:// http:// and gemini://.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoThanks, it's a bit of an experiment. I do think the filesystem metaphor can be pretty powerful, and backlinks are also amazing.
- dublin 5y agoJust a warning that exploring James Lileks' site will suck you into spending a completely unreasonable number of hours marveling at his outstanding sense of humor (he wrote a great piece last week on the passing of P.J. O'Rourke) as well as the simultaneous wonderfulness and awfulness of mid-century American culture and life. The Gallery of Regrettable Food is a destination on its own, and the Matchbooks Collection will leave you amazed that they are so interesting...
- nycdatasci 5y agohttp://www.111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.com/ http://www.1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111...
- kandruszkow 5y agoLove the address already!
- kilroy123 5y agohttps://www.thebestpictureontheinternet.com/ https://www.thebestpictureontheinternet.com/
- moh_maya 5y agohttps://y-n10.com/ https://y-n10.com/ The website of the Nintendo founder's family office. It..is just beautifully designed, and a homage to the original game consoles and the entire art form of PC gaming when it started. Earlier thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26803201 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26803201
- asaph 5y agoWarning: If you click on the logo at the center of the screen, music plays, which may bother others around you.
- earthboundkid 5y agoYeah, but everyone has been WFH for two years now…
- ChrisRR 5y agoI don't know about other countries but in the UK it's been almost entirely back to work for months now.
- ectopod 5y agoI don't know anyone spending more than one day a week in an office in the UK. Trains are very under-utilised. Business owners in city centres are still grumbling about the lack of trade.
- MisterSandman 5y agoTheory: any conversation on Hacker News that can boil down to WFH discussion, will.
- earthboundkid 5y agoMisterSandman's Law.
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- kmt-lnh 5y agoThe giant book of whys: https://sites.google.com/site/shkrobius/table-of-lj-contents https://sites.google.com/site/shkrobius/table-of-lj-contents
- BLKNSLVR 5y agoHatshoe.org Sadly it no longer exists. It appeared to be some kind of augmented reality game leaving trails of (very) difficult clues to follow. The website itself used hand-written pages that appeared to have been scanned in and posted as images (some as image maps that linked to other pages depending on which hand-written words you click on). Some of it was very funny, some of it was quite spooky, and none of it made any kind of sense to me. It was great. "There is no terror but freedom from the illusion" There's a wiki that documents the various pages here: https://hat-shoe.fandom.com/wiki/Hatshoe_Wiki https://hat-shoe.fandom.com/wiki/Hatshoe_Wiki And here's the homepage from the 25th of August, 2011: https://web.archive.org/web/20110825015858/http://www.hatshoe.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110825015858/http://www.hatsho...
- lockescalation 5y ago
- enriquto 5y agoKevin Brown's mathpages [0] are really something else. I keep falling into them again and again when trying to solve very different technical problems. Each time, he surprises me with several crucial insights that were already there 20 years ago. The wonky math equations are a lovely plus. [0] https://www.mathpages.com/ https://www.mathpages.com/
- neoglow 5y agohttps://z0r.de https://z0r.de
- netsharc 5y agoHah, feels like Rick & Morty's Interdimensional Cable...
- RhysU 5y agohttps://gnossiennes.mousereeve.com/ https://gnossiennes.mousereeve.com/, discussed at Strange Loop (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ANYMii3Sypg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ANYMii3Sypg), is an homage to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Satie https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Satie The result is beautiful and the creator's love spillingly apparent. Workable on mobile but better on the desktop.
- marczellm 5y agoabsürd.org but it doesn't exist anymore.
- vidarh 5y agoWorst design: https://www.arngren.net/ https://www.arngren.net/ Though it's a pretty faithful rendition of their old paper catalogue...
- marginalia_nu 5y agoFlexbox design from 15 years before flex boxes were invented. I'd say it's very ahead of its time. This is how websites are starting to look today.
- Quai 5y agoThat page was often used at Opera Software as a example and benchmark for weird and wonderful things "web designers" throw against rendering engines :D
- yodon 5y agoI'll be that guy and point out that "Unique" is interesting because it falls in the same category of words as forever, infinite, dead, and pregnant, adjectives which do not take comparative qualifiers because they describe Boolean states. You don't get to be the most pregnant or most dead person in the room, or live more forever than your friend. You can have something that is Aleph-1 rather than Aleph-nought, but you don't get to have something that is more infinite that your neighbor. In a similar vein, your thing can not be more unique than your co-worker's thing though one of you may have the more unusual thing, just as you could live longer, be more injured, have been carrying more kids in your uterus for longer, or have something that is bigger, longer, or more expansive.
- leephillips 5y agoBut can we form a more perfect union?
- ryandvm 5y agoExcellent work, Colin Robinson. However, I think I'd disagree. The reality is we all knew what OP meant because the colloquial (non-CS) definition of unique is just "very unusual". It isn't often in meatspace that humans are trying to distinguish completely physically unique items, so such a constrained definition is understandably rare in normal conversation.
- cardy31 5y agoLol nice reference
- DamnInteresting 5y ago> I'll be that guy and point out that "Unique" is interesting because it falls in the same category of words as forever, infinite, dead, and pregnant, adjectives which do not take comparative qualifiers because they describe Boolean states. In common contexts "unique" just means "unusual." It's like how "theory" can just mean "hypothesis" in normal discussion, but in strictly scientific contexts it only applies to explanations that are supported by a large body of evidence. So if one is in a rare context that is sensitive to the strict boolean definition of "unique," then you are correct. All other times (i.e., most of the time) you are incorrect. When it comes to language, the most common usage is the correct usage. This may occasionally annoy us (see: "literally", "begging the question", etc.), but the fact is that languages are fluid and evolving, and there was no moment in history when the English language was frozen and declared perfect. Language is inherently democratic, and sometimes one is outvoted. Granted, it's fine to try to realign the language to match your preferences, but more often than not this is a fool's errand.
- dorianmariefr 5y agohttp://perdu.com http://perdu.com :)
- WesSouza 5y agohttp://www.pudim.com.br/ http://www.pudim.com.br/ The same flan since 2000: https://web.archive.org/web/20001206203700/http://www.pudim.com.br/ https://web.archive.org/web/20001206203700/http://www.pudim....
- notakio 5y agoIf it isn't broke, you don't need to fix it.
- michalu 5y ago(Restaurant) https://sketch.london https://sketch.london They used to have different website, weird and entertaining at the same time. This one somewhat follows on the tradition.
- huitzitziltzin 5y agoHow many hours are there in a day? (Not 24!) What is the shape of the earth? (Neither flat nor a sphere!) For 'answers' to these deep questions, see: https://timecube.2enp.com/ https://timecube.2enp.com/
- ntrz 5y agoDid whoever mirrored the site run s/kill/kiss? Really obscures Gene's true message I think.
- npteljes 5y agoLooks like it. How unfun. Here's a page where this change didn't happen: http://timecube.rubbermallet.org/ http://timecube.rubbermallet.org/
- idontknowifican 5y agoi’ve met this dude irl, he used to shop at the computer store i worked at. wore a timecube hat but i never asked for details because i can recognize mental health issues
- wly_cdgr 5y agoJust cos someone is missing an arm is no reason not to ask them to go for a walk
- imwillofficial 5y agoMental health issues can often be unpredictable and dangerous. A missing arm is almost never a sign of danger. A missing arm could be the result of many things, birth defect, boating accident, or dangerous behavior, but is not a commonly accept indication of danger to self or others. Mental illness is.
- MichaelMcG 5y agoIt's a sign they might have previously engaged in dangerous activities, maybe they learned from it and have an interesting story to boot.
- temp0826 5y agoMosh to Yanni. http://www.angelfire.com/ct/moshtoyanni/ http://www.angelfire.com/ct/moshtoyanni/
- defterade_ 5y agohttps://www.kickscondor.com/ https://www.kickscondor.com/
- ramesh31 5y agohttps://www.lingscars.com/ https://www.lingscars.com/ Absolutely legendary.
- Zhyl 5y agohttps://acko.net https://acko.net Clicking on the header launches a (simple) WebGL music video
- widjit 5y agocheck out the console/source, there's some fun things to find
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- cobbal 5y agohttps://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/
- hannyaharamita 5y agohttp://radio.garden/ http://radio.garden/ Map-based internet radio tuner.
- sdoering 5y agoI really loved it. I first stumbled upon it as it was presented in the 'made with' section of the Kirby CMS newsletter. As a user (and fan) of Kirby CMS [0] I really found it interesting to see this being shown. [0] https://getkirby.com https://getkirby.com
- viewfinderjs 5y agoI LOVE this guy: https://www.dethpsun.com/ https://www.dethpsun.com/ from his news section: I should update this website more often, but no one visits art websites so much these days. I think in 2010 I'd average 200 visits a day, and I think it's about 30 these days. So if you're here, thanks visiting my website. -- Not after HN meets you, mate. Ahahaha :P ;) xx;p
- monkey_monkey 5y agoNot sure if it's unique, but this was really nicely done – https://portfolio.zxh.io/ https://portfolio.zxh.io/ HN discussion about the site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27084995 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27084995
- baby-yoda 5y agopoolside.fm however upon visiting just now it appears there has been an upgrade to poolsuite.net
- tony-allan 5y agohttps://www.gnod.com/ https://www.gnod.com/ https://www.productchart.com/ https://www.productchart.com/
- lastofthemojito 5y agoI love https://www.luigicases.com https://www.luigicases.com - it's the web site for an Italian gentleman who makes leather cases and straps for Leica cameras. But the web design is straight out of the 90's, along with loads of extraneous text and even some family photos. And you can't actually buy anything via the website - you send the guy an email and a corresponding Paypal payment (https://www.luigicases.com/a000-PURCHASE-info.htm https://www.luigicases.com/a000-PURCHASE-info.htm). Basically, it's so bad, it's charmingly good.
- Nextgrid 5y agoIf the goods are handmade then the bad UX serves as a rate-limiter to constrain demand to supply. I'm assuming the system works well for him as otherwise he'd switch to a better solution.
- arkitaip 5y agoIt would be more profitable and professional to increase prices.
- imwillofficial 5y agoSome people have a price in mind that they feel their work is valued at, and see that as ethical. When I got my tattoo, the artist refused to accept more than His agreed to price, as an example.
- bsedlm 5y agosurprisingly (to some, specially hardcore capitalists) some people do not want it all. i.e. some of us reject the (roughly summed up as) "go big or go home" attitude
- waynesonfire 5y agoonce you get too greedy it can introduce competition.
- tomcam 5y ago
- plants 5y agoMy favorite restaurant. Lots of fun clip-art graphics :) https://www.thaidiner.com/ https://www.thaidiner.com/
- gnicholas 5y agoOffline Only — a website that can only be viewed when disconnected from the internet. https://chris.bolin.co/offline/ https://chris.bolin.co/offline/
- sdoering 5y agoWow. I think my mind just blew a fuse. I like the concept. I like that one took the ability to detect being offline as a awy to create not only a statement, but also exemplify it. I would have (if I would ever have had such an idea - unlikely) and added footnotes like in scientific writing instead of not linking out. But whom am I to judge.
- GnomeSaiyan 5y agoWow this is really neat. Simple yet effective.
- tejohnso 5y agoConclave Obscurum http://conclaveobscurum.ru/ http://conclaveobscurum.ru/ A private artistic project by Russian artist Oleg Paschenko. Very strange, creepy, interesting, and years ago, it was interactive (flash). Now it's just a walkthrough video that doesn't provide the same mystique. And it seems some of the creepier skeletal sections aren't shown. I think it might be a different version from the original. Back when I first stumbled upon the site (90s), it was like a curiosity amplification engine for my young mind. What is it? Why would someone spend time on something like this? And why wouldn't they provide information about what it is or who they are? Am I using it right? Are there easter eggs I'm missing out on? It was depressing, creepy, and intriguing. I wasn't able to find any writeup on it when I first found it (pre-google) and I was just so drawn in. I'd click in one place, and something weird would show up on the screen, then I'd click again and nothing would happen. I'd see random flashes of skeletal structures or a small child that appeared to be crying. And the sounds were just as disturbing as the visuals. I never forgot it. Here's a writeup in eyemagazine https://eyemagazine.com/feature/article/conclave-obscurum https://eyemagazine.com/feature/article/conclave-obscurum Here it is in the Web Design Museum https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-websites/conclave-obscurum-2005 https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-websites/conclave-obsc...
- khazhoux 5y agoSuch strong 1995 vibes here!
- aasasd 5y agoPaschenko is a pretty curious guy. IIRC he makes both digital art and physical works, and—again IIRC—they tend to be atmospheric like this site, if perhaps a bit less cryptic. He's big time into Orthodox Christianity—supposedly the dominant religion in the country, but most ‘believers’ here just have this checkbox in the back of their minds that they're Orthodox, and that's it. He was employed since '99 by Art. Lebedev Studio, one of the first web design companies here, known also for the Optimus keyboard. And he wrote some time later that it took him a while to realize that Lebedev, the company's owner, was just giving him money to let him continue making his art.
- Brajeshwar 5y agoI'm going to go through the interesting ones from the comments and bookmark them. Here are some of mine https://oinam.fyi/awesome/bookmarks/ https://oinam.fyi/awesome/bookmarks/
- spacechild1 5y agohttp://lhohq.info/ http://lhohq.info/ (NSFW + epilepsy warning)
- amisure 5y agoworrydream.com
- rudedogg 5y agohttp://worrydream.com http://worrydream.com Be sure to check out some of the other pages like http://worrydream.com/#!2/LadderOfAbstraction http://worrydream.com/#!2/LadderOfAbstraction, there are interactive parts.
- DanHulton 5y agohttps://ipaidthemost.com/ https://ipaidthemost.com/ (Disclaimer: I'm also the author of said site, but it answers the question really well.)
- pketh 5y agokudos on that great about page too
- DanHulton 5y agoThanks!
- lorepieri 5y agoThis was done on the blockchain back in the days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16329112 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16329112 https://etherscan.io/address/0x631c0D6f503C900e969C14d80A61D94e34cb0899 https://etherscan.io/address/0x631c0D6f503C900e969C14d80A61D...
- bluesroo 5y agoYou should have a timer for how long the existing payment has been there.
- ThePhysicist 5y agohttps://www.wearesuperorganism.com/ https://www.wearesuperorganism.com/
- BongoMcCat 5y agohttps://vecka.nu/ https://vecka.nu/ In Sweden, we use week-number quite often, but it is nowhere to be found in our calendar software, so, there is a webpage that just displays what week it is now, nothing else.. also: vecka = week nu = now
- shoo 5y ago(function(v,e,c,k,a,n,u){v['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=a;v[a]=v[a]||function() ... ha!
- msoad 5y agoI guess you don't need the "year progress" reminders as much!
- DoingIsLearning 5y agoI always feel cognitively impaired for a few seconds when I am discuss some planing aspect with product managers, they all keep using week numbers as if that provided any form of intuition to other mortals.
- NKosmatos 5y agohehe, came here to post the same page :-) I'm using it every week since in the software development project I'm in we're using week numbers for all planning. Fun fact for vecka.nu, the favicon is updated each week so as to show the number of the week.
- Markoff 5y agoWhat time is it? https://time.is https://time.is
- C4K3 5y agoalso https://ugenr.dk/ https://ugenr.dk/ if you ever wanted the number flying out at you.
- henhouse 5y agoFor those using macOS or iOS, week numbers can be toggled on in the calendar settings! Really useful if you need to frequently reference the week. Unsure about Windows and Android.
- h0p3 5y agohttps://philosopher.life https://philosopher.life
- FourHand451 5y agohttps://benklaas.com/jqmcbp/ https://benklaas.com/jqmcbp/ It's a comical March Madness bracket tournament. The winner gets a candy bar, and everyone gets some lovely funny email updates as the month goes on. In addition to human competitors, you compete against a 1000 chimpanzee army and their own predictions. Each page on the website has a velociraptor button.
- co1nm4ster 5y agohttps://zapread.com https://zapread.com A forum where you up and downvote with satoshi (BTC).
- seanman 5y agohttps://glassanimals.com/ https://glassanimals.com/ - I remember the first time I came across their site I was just having a blast and wanting to explore. It looks slightly different than I remember, but love the idea.
- stephenitis 5y agoWow. This was really something else! Thanks
- eklitzke 5y agohttps://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/ https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/
- TradingPlaces 5y agoLike The Onion, but for a total addressable market of a few hundred thousand people worldwide. https://www.jumboframeinternet.com https://www.jumboframeinternet.com
- bhargav 5y agohttp://example.com http://example.com
- fumblebee 5y agoComedian Peter Serafinowicz's website for his character Brian Butterfield takes web design to the next level[1] /s Sadly, the original website was taken down last year, but thanks to the Wayback Machine this masterpiece is still available to marvel at. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210330113905/http://www.peterserafinowicz.com/brian-butterfield/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210330113905/http://www.peters...
- HatchedLake721 5y agoBack from 2001, 2advanced.com Video only, since browsers can't easily run Flash these days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWkNkQoQY_8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWkNkQoQY_8
- wil421 5y agoWow that gave me Flashbacks of both Flash websites and Metal Gear Solid. Flash was great for a time but was not the way of the future and I’m glad it died.
- wil421 5y agoI edited this one and a duplicate appeared. Delete is missing.
- wil421 5y agoWow that gave me Flashbacks of both Flash websites and Metal Gear Solid. Flash was great for a time but was not the way of the future and I’m glad it died. I wonder what Steve Jobs would think of the new Flash, super bloated JavaScript websites.
- elamje 5y agohttps://kinopio.club/ https://kinopio.club/ A fun way to make a shareable board of notes, links, and content
- nonbirithm 5y agohttps://rc.retroyou.org/ https://rc.retroyou.org/ http://nostalg.kubasik.biz/ http://nostalg.kubasik.biz/ Art project based around several hacked copies of Re-Volt and a flight simulator. The artist also has some more recent work. https://retroyou.org/ https://retroyou.org/ https://www.retroyou.org/archive_2015-1994.html https://www.retroyou.org/archive_2015-1994.html https://www.retroyou.org/sr_blue-planet-bulkdown.html https://www.retroyou.org/sr_blue-planet-bulkdown.html https://www.retroyou.org/sr_beta-renders-01_beta-interpretation.html https://www.retroyou.org/sr_beta-renders-01_beta-interpretat...
- digitalsushi 5y agojodi.org back in like 1998 or so.
- er0k 5y agojodi.org is still active and pretty cool, IMO
- H1Supreme 5y agoMan, if it were the early 2000's, I could give you a seemingly endless list of sites. There was a a network of sites like designiskinky, k10k, praystation, and many others that existed to curate, and showcase interesting websites. A lot of that creativity was due to graphic designers learning Flash, and putting up their experiments. A really interesting period of time. Sadly, I don't really know of anything like that anymore. I'll run across a random Tumblr from time to time. Or, strike gold with a random Pintrest list. But, it's nothing like it used to be, in regards to out-of-the-box web design.
- alx__ 5y ago> k10k, praystation Ah yeah that's a nice hit of nostalgia. gmunk was a favorite of mine back then. Nice to see he's had a rad career: https://gmunk.com/ https://gmunk.com/
- vitaflo 5y agoYup the design scene around the turn of the century was a magical time. Really happy to have been a part of it. Wish it still existed but we went from being punk 20 year olds trying to prove ourselves to middle aged adults with families and careers. Not everything can last forever.
- anothermoron 5y agoYea that was an amazing time, there is a website that list a lot of those https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/category/Design%20&%20Art/open/category https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/category/Design%20&%... I used to go on k10k and deskmod all the time back then!
- gregschlom 5y agohttp://levitated.net http://levitated.net comes to mind. Looks like the site is still around, but with the awesome flash content replaced by pictures.
- pjmorris 5y agoTwenty years later, the halfbakery [0] still stands out to me. [0] https://www.halfbakery.com/ https://www.halfbakery.com/
- tyingq 5y agohttps://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ has to go on the list for contrast against expectations of the home page of a $700B company. It does load fast.
- jaywalk 5y agoIt's a shame that it uses Google Analytics. There's no JavaScript or even CSS otherwise.
- pmarreck 5y agoI think this has to do with it possibly being the most successful least technological (as in, the ratio of success to technology investment is nearly infinite) capitalist enterprise in existence. Warren Buffett is practically a Luddite.
- Ivoah 5y agoAcme Klein Bottle: https://www.kleinbottle.com/ https://www.kleinbottle.com/
- tzs 5y agoIn the worst design category, it is hard to top the website from a few years ago of Yvette's bridal and tux shop, archived here [1]. Archive.org also has it [2] but the p1r8.net archive seems to be a little more accurate. [1] https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/ https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/ [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20110718150425/http://yvettesbridalformal.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110718150425/http://yvettesbri...
- jdauriemma 5y agoI'll plug my digital trombone: https://jdauriemma.com/trombone.js https://jdauriemma.com/trombone.js (source: https://github.com/bignimbus/trombone.js https://github.com/bignimbus/trombone.js)
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- lubujackson 5y agoInteresting that so many of these "unique" sites are ones that are more about the unique person behind them or a vision of an older internet. One that I think is unique on it's own merits: http://nuggety.com/ http://nuggety.com/ A little confusing, but it allows advanced searching across multiple image search sites - set your filters then it shows you all the sites you can search with those settings and deep links to the search results for each one.
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- pmuw 5y agohttps://redpandafinder.com https://redpandafinder.com Its a family tree of zoo-born red pandas with almost 30,000 pictures (hand-tagged and searchable) and over 1300 animals. I'm proud of making it for many reasons, but this is the biggest one: if you pick an animal and swipe through a few dozen photos, you start seeing a little life, growing and changing, and eventually ending. It's a precious lens on the world.
- alanbernstein 5y agoAmazing use of CSS animations(?) that I've never seen elsewhere: https://a1decals.com/products-page/sci-fi-stuff-decals/alien-ufo-decals/alien-head-decal-sticker/ https://a1decals.com/products-page/sci-fi-stuff-decals/alien.... Also perhaps the most unexpected UX I've ever X'ed.
- jslakro 5y agohttps://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/ https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/
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- rsync 5y agocryptome came to mind immediately.[1] "No court order has ever been served; any order served will be published here -- or elsewhere if gagged by order. Bluffs will be published if comical but otherwise ignored." [1] https://cryptome.org/ https://cryptome.org/
- ratg13 5y agoAnyone remember a website in the 90s that taught stenography, and in order to progress in the lessons you had to crack various stenography challenges? The teacher had some sort of a Russian name, I believe but the site was in English.
- _nn25 5y agohttp://compudida.com http://compudida.com It is an endless journey of investigation, parody, mystery, and intrigue. Try to click around for at least 10 minutes and see where you end up.
- justusthane 5y agoThere's a great (and huge!) collection of personal homepages, many of which could meet this criteria, here: https://pinboard.in/u:mikael/t:homepages https://pinboard.in/u:mikael/t:homepages One just picked at random: https://paul-daunais.info/ https://paul-daunais.info/
- mikey_p 5y agohttps://www.classicboots.com/ https://www.classicboots.com/ Met the the guy who started this (now deceased) many years ago at a concert while I was in college. He owned the company that provided the PA and lighting, and was wondering around wearing the the most ridiculous motcross boots I had ever seen, struck up a conversation and he told me about this site, and I still think about it from time to time. I think that was about 20 years ago.
- disease 5y agoI wonder how many great websites we lost with the death of Flash. Off the top of my head, I remember visiting the website for the movie Donnie Darko back when the film was originally released and being blown away at the strangeness and creativity of it.
- carapace 5y agoI like Rex Research http://www.rexresearch.com/1index.htm http://www.rexresearch.com/1index.htm It's a huge compilation of weird technologies and inventions. Most of them are crackpot, of course, but some of them are legit and truly fascinating. Rex Research predates the Internet, you used to have to order from little ads in the back of Popular Mechanics. Back then this was pretty much the only way you could learn about this stuff. Nowadays some of the less crackpot tech is more widely known, and some of the inventions even have their own Wikipedia pages, e.g.: Rolamite "the only elementary machine discovered in the twentieth century" http://www.rexresearch.com/wilkes/1wilkes.htm http://www.rexresearch.com/wilkes/1wilkes.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolamite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolamite Aerosol Electrical Generator aka Vaneless ion wind generator "a device that generates electrical energy by using the wind to move charged particles across an electric field" http://www.rexresearch.com/marks/marks.htm http://www.rexresearch.com/marks/marks.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaneless_ion_wind_generator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaneless_ion_wind_generator Hilsch-Ranque vortex tube "a mechanical device that separates a compressed gas into hot and cold streams. The gas emerging from the hot end can reach temperatures of 200 °C (392 °F), and the gas emerging from the cold end can reach −50 °C (−58 °F).[1] It has no moving parts." http://www.rexresearch.com/ranque/ranque.htm http://www.rexresearch.com/ranque/ranque.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_tube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_tube Maxwell's Demon! Although it does not violate thermodynamics.
- fnordian_slip 5y agohttps://www.schnada.de/ https://www.schnada.de/ Rather simple design, just a couple of images and text. But the text is German dadaist poetry, and I'm not really sure if parts of it or the pictures aren't computer-generated, based on the sheer amount of content, supposedly created by a single person for fun. On the other hand, the creator is kind of a genius, so maybe he really did write it all himself
- newacc9 5y agoShortwave radio online. There's not much to listen to, but its a neat site. http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
- mailarchis 5y agohttps://root.vc/ https://root.vc/ - A website for Root Venture Capital with a very interesting take.
- 2bitencryption 5y agofamilysearch.com Iniital thought: "eh, might be a cool free version of Ancestry, with some huge limitations because 'free' means 'bad'". An hour later, I became convinced it was the most interesting website I've ever seen, both in what it provides and the technology behind it. It basically gameifies building your family tree. Plug in a name of your grandparent. The site goes: "Hey, here are three documents you might want to attach." The documents are indexed by all the information they provide: age, sex, birth location, etc. Adding one document gives the site higher confidence in finding other documents. It results in a cascading effect where the more info you add, the more family members it finds, all in real time as you continue building out the tree. Eventually, you add an ancestor that is the common ancestor of someone else, who already build out THEIR tree, and that tree becomes instantly available to you, and suddenly you see hundreds of relatives.
- lastofthemojito 5y agoTo me the most interesting part of Ancestry.com and familysearch.com is the Mormon connection: https://www.familysearch.org/en/home/sponsorship https://www.familysearch.org/en/home/sponsorship Oh, and why are Mormons so into genealogy? (obviously this isn't the only reason) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptism_for_the_dead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptism_for_the_dead
- HeckFeck 5y agohttps://wmw.thran.uk/ https://wmw.thran.uk/ This is a website I've built cataloguing high-effort and unique websites, if you don't mind the shameless self-promotion. One of the most distinctive websites I've found on my journeys is http://www.deuceofclubs.com/ http://www.deuceofclubs.com/ . I've visited many times and it is still impossible to categorise. https://neocities.org/browse https://neocities.org/browse Neocities also offers much of what you seek.
- jablongo 5y agosigidwiki.com Almanac of human made EM signals. The diversity of signals and how they sound and look on a spectrograph is engaging and informative.
- vvoid 5y agoThree extraordinary examples from the earlier days of the internet. taxi1010.com. A veteran taxi driver (?) organizes his thoughts around "verbal self defense," creating a highly crosslinked database of adversarial conversational openers, and possible ways to deflect them. Reasonable starting point: http://www.taxi1010.com/stargate01.htm#sitemap http://www.taxi1010.com/stargate01.htm#sitemap everything2.com: another free-form database mixing facts, fiction and personal notes written by an unusually literate subcommunity. Adjacent to slashdot and h2g2, even documents some early reactions to wikipedia. https://everything2.com/ https://everything2.com/ My Boyfriend Came Back From The War: net artist Olia Lialina crafts a poem in the browser by exploiting properties of the medium. Remixed dozens of times by other net artists. Archived by Rhizome with a simulated slow load over Netscape. https://sites.rhizome.org/anthology/lialina.html https://sites.rhizome.org/anthology/lialina.html
- nemanjaboric 5y agoThe old website for Gyros stand in Berlin: https://grandegyros.de/alt/standort.htm https://grandegyros.de/alt/standort.htm There's also a new one https://grandegyros.de/ https://grandegyros.de/
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- jdkee 5y agohttps://100r.co/site/home.html https://100r.co/site/home.html Seafaring nomads that code up their own software tools. Quite a story here. https://100r.co/site/about_us.html https://100r.co/site/about_us.html
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- nmpennypacker 5y agohttps://oopsallmarquees.com https://oopsallmarquees.com for obvious reasons :)
- harryvederci 5y agohttp://www.staggeringbeauty.com/ http://www.staggeringbeauty.com/ (not suitable for people with epilepsy)
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- Der_Einzige 5y agoThis guy's fansite for the anime Serial Experiments Lain is really really unique. https://fauux.neocities.org/ https://fauux.neocities.org/
- MPSimmons 5y agohttp://www.bradthegame.com/ http://www.bradthegame.com/
- pmoriarty 5y agoNot exactly what you're asking for, but see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles It's a giant rabbit hole.
- moneycantbuy 5y agohttps://trendytrendytrendy.com/ https://trendytrendytrendy.com/ Just magical
- retzkek 5y agohttp://www.mcgov.co.uk/riddles/level1.html http://www.mcgov.co.uk/riddles/level1.html A wonderful series of riddles, the answer of each being the filename of the next riddle.
- Iwan-Zotow 5y agoGoatse, of course
- sixbrx 5y agoI love this page about our Milky Way galaxy, with a lot of good information about what's currently known about it. http://www.handprint.com/ASTRO/galaxy.html http://www.handprint.com/ASTRO/galaxy.html
- ggerules 5y agohttps://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ A collective fiction website, kind of like X-Files, meets the internet.
- nuclearsugar 5y agoI've been reading through these for years when on public transit and just this week passed the 500th SCP. It's quite difficult to tell apart different writing styles, so it really does feel like one giant database of scary objects.
- davidlicause 5y agoRenaissance Technologies: https://www.rentec.com/ https://www.rentec.com/ One of the top quantitative hedge funds in the world, 90s era website. Wikipedia page for RT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies
- snicky 5y agoDamn, the internet suddenly starts to be fun again.
- 11001100 5y agohttps://www.kiz-neuruppin.de/ https://www.kiz-neuruppin.de/ (works only with flashplayer) It is the "first" interactive music video of a german rap crew. I was stunned when I saw it many years ago. A wonderful piece of work.
- facorreia 5y agoThat would be The Million Dollar Homepage, with Zombocom a close second.
- 8bitsrule 5y agoI still like to visit English Russia [https://englishrussia.com/ https://englishrussia.com/] now and then. Unique POV, much humor. Started in 2006 as a melange of photos, cleaned up at some point (less pictures per page, a frame). Looks like a lot of the early photos are in the history section now. [https://englishrussia.com/category/history/ https://englishrussia.com/category/history/] (e.g. first Russian mobile phone [https://englishrussia.com/2006/09/18/first-russian-mobile-phone/ https://englishrussia.com/2006/09/18/first-russian-mobile-ph...] ) Space section (Laika, Buranm Gregory Perelman).
- adamredwoods 5y agoThe secret life of photons, 2D ray-tracing through lenses playground: https://benedikt-bitterli.me/tantalum/tantalum.html https://benedikt-bitterli.me/tantalum/tantalum.html
- acomjean 5y agohttps://www.superbad.com/ https://www.superbad.com/ is a 20 year old web art thing. you have to click around. still works for the most part: I like the lotus page https://www.superbad.com/1/lotus/index.html https://www.superbad.com/1/lotus/index.html the old memepool.com site was great. https://web.archive.org/web/20050531235511/http://www.memepool.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20050531235511/http://www.memepo...
- marksimi 5y agohttps://zombo.com/ https://zombo.com/
- aghilmort 5y agolove this glitch live map, https://wakingandsleeping.glitch.me/ https://wakingandsleeping.glitch.me/ cross-ref - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30456611 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30456611 especially rn while the world is on fire
- foofoo4u 5y agohttps://nissan.com/ https://nissan.com/ . The owners of the domain are adamant on keeping it and not handing it over to the car company.
- eightturn 5y agohttp://www.domainnamedollarstore.com/ http://www.domainnamedollarstore.com/ because I love domain names, and I appreciate things on sale.
- turkishlurker 5y agoA former version of sandberg.nl from circa 2005. It was Flash based and if I recall correctly the work of Luna Maurer, a Dutch designer. I am not sure it is safe to admit it here but I am nostalgic for the heyday of Flash.
- ktjalve 5y agohttps://wilderness.land/ https://wilderness.land/ Which are my favourite 500+ unique websites hidden in a google spreadsheet looking like a pokemon map.
- BaudouinVH 5y agorotten.com (late 90's/early 2000's)
- le-hu 5y agohttps://pointerpointer.com/ https://pointerpointer.com/