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Here's a site I like to link whenever this discussion comes up (not associated): https://wiby.me https://wiby.me I love hopping in and hitting the "surprise m

by hbn 4y ago

Here's a site I like to link whenever this discussion comes up (not associated): https://wiby.me https://wiby.me I love hopping in and hitting the "surprise me" every once in a while, and reading some obscure webpage written by an actual person with a passion for a subject. In the past I've seen a site dedicated to the soundtrack for a film series (I can't remember which), not even necessarily streaming the soundtrack or something, but just a bunch of articles about every facet of these soundtracks. Just now I got linked to a page about Kodak Photo CDs http://www.tedfelix.com/PhotoCD/ http://www.tedfelix.com/PhotoCD/

BbzzbB 4y ago
In a similar vein, I like Marginala's discover/site hopping mode. The little cards make it easier to get the vibe of more than one site at a time too. https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random
ConstantVigil 4y ago
Got this link: https://mebious.neocities.org/Layer/Wierd.html https://mebious.neocities.org/Layer/Wierd.html It's a Thought Experiments Lain website P.S. There absolutely is definitely going to be sound coming through speakers. Fair heads up.
- skyyler 4y ago
  I really enjoy that the Lain fans are not slowing down in the slightest with their love for Lain.
  - ConstantVigil 4y ago
    I'm fairly certain this is a really old site...
quartz 4y ago
Wow this is fantastic! Landed on some HAM radio operator's personal text-only site and then a site about birds in some far off place in Nova Scotia: http://www.capebretonbirds.ca/ http://www.capebretonbirds.ca/.
- themaninthedark 4y ago
  Serendipity, I am in Nova Scotia right now and heading out to Cape Brenton tomorrow! I will keep an eye out for some of those birds!
Stratoscope 4y ago
Oh my gosh, the "surprise me" link took me here: http://www.rechenmaschinen-illustrated.com/ http://www.rechenmaschinen-illustrated.com/ It's a site full of photos and descriptions of antique calculators!
barbs 4y ago
Awesome site. For those looking for a summary: In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were personally interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded everything else. All the personalized websites are hidden among a pile of commercial pages. Google isn't great at finding them, its focus is on finding answers to technical questions, and it works well; but finding things you didn't know you wanted to know, which was the real joy of web surfing, no longer happens. In addition, many pages today are created using bloated scripts that add slick cosmetic features in order to mask the lack of content available on them. Those pages contribute to the blandness of today's web. The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet. In addition, Wiby helps vintage computers to continue browsing the web, as pages indexed are more suitable for their performance. https://wiby.me/about/ https://wiby.me/about/
hudsonhs 4y ago
I clicked "surprise me" and found a page that has a picture of astronauts on the ISS with SPHERES: http://www.madsci.org/ http://www.madsci.org/ In high school my friends and I were on a team for a robotics/programming competition run by NASA and MIT that involved programming 3d models of these SPHERES to do some action in a virtual space against an opponent. But if you made it to the final round, you got to watch your code get executed by ACTUAL SPHERES on the INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. We won 2 years in a row, and made it to the final round 3 times (while I was on the team, I think they made it to the final round once the year before I joined). I doubt I'll ever do anything nearly that cool ever again in my actual career now.
- anthk 4y ago
  Perfect page for Links+ on my OBSD powered crappy Atom N270 netbook :).
caller9 4y ago
* Got a crappy knock-off Dustin Diamond page that wasn't official and looked like it was the result of a 12 year old and a copy of MS Frontpage and a case of Jolt Cola. * A "furniture porn" site that was horrific. Not the modern usage where it's a lot of photos of nice furniture, the other interpretation. No humans, just weird ass pictures of chairs. * Then something actually good: http://marc.merlins.org/linux/refundday/ http://marc.merlins.org/linux/refundday/ Apparently there was a Windows Refund day in 1999 where *nix users could get a refund for the copy of Windows that came in their PC.
alliao 4y ago
I got this http://nothings.org/writing/websucks.html http://nothings.org/writing/websucks.html so fascinating in 2004 the web already suck
anoncow 4y ago
I got https://www.stroustrup.com/ https://www.stroustrup.com/
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deepdmistry 4y ago
This is awesome, i found a very simple dutch oven bread recipe. Cant wait to try it.
spaceprison 4y ago
This is so great. I was just telling my son about the wonder of the old internet and how great stumbleupon was. Thanks for this.

by hbn 4y ago

BbzzbB 4y ago

In a similar vein, I like Marginala's discover/site hopping mode. The little cards make it easier to get the vibe of more than one site at a time too. https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random

ConstantVigil 4y ago

Got this link: https://mebious.neocities.org/Layer/Wierd.html https://mebious.neocities.org/Layer/Wierd.html It's a Thought Experiments Lain website P.S. There absolutely is definitely going to be sound coming through speakers. Fair heads up.

skyyler 4y ago
I really enjoy that the Lain fans are not slowing down in the slightest with their love for Lain.
- ConstantVigil 4y ago
  I'm fairly certain this is a really old site...

quartz 4y ago

Wow this is fantastic! Landed on some HAM radio operator's personal text-only site and then a site about birds in some far off place in Nova Scotia: http://www.capebretonbirds.ca/ http://www.capebretonbirds.ca/.

themaninthedark 4y ago
Serendipity, I am in Nova Scotia right now and heading out to Cape Brenton tomorrow! I will keep an eye out for some of those birds!

Stratoscope 4y ago

Oh my gosh, the "surprise me" link took me here: http://www.rechenmaschinen-illustrated.com/ http://www.rechenmaschinen-illustrated.com/ It's a site full of photos and descriptions of antique calculators!

barbs 4y ago

Awesome site. For those looking for a summary: In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were personally interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded everything else. All the personalized websites are hidden among a pile of commercial pages. Google isn't great at finding them, its focus is on finding answers to technical questions, and it works well; but finding things you didn't know you wanted to know, which was the real joy of web surfing, no longer happens. In addition, many pages today are created using bloated scripts that add slick cosmetic features in order to mask the lack of content available on them. Those pages contribute to the blandness of today's web. The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet. In addition, Wiby helps vintage computers to continue browsing the web, as pages indexed are more suitable for their performance. https://wiby.me/about/ https://wiby.me/about/

hudsonhs 4y ago

I clicked "surprise me" and found a page that has a picture of astronauts on the ISS with SPHERES: http://www.madsci.org/ http://www.madsci.org/ In high school my friends and I were on a team for a robotics/programming competition run by NASA and MIT that involved programming 3d models of these SPHERES to do some action in a virtual space against an opponent. But if you made it to the final round, you got to watch your code get executed by ACTUAL SPHERES on the INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. We won 2 years in a row, and made it to the final round 3 times (while I was on the team, I think they made it to the final round once the year before I joined). I doubt I'll ever do anything nearly that cool ever again in my actual career now.

anthk 4y ago
Perfect page for Links+ on my OBSD powered crappy Atom N270 netbook :).

caller9 4y ago

* Got a crappy knock-off Dustin Diamond page that wasn't official and looked like it was the result of a 12 year old and a copy of MS Frontpage and a case of Jolt Cola. * A "furniture porn" site that was horrific. Not the modern usage where it's a lot of photos of nice furniture, the other interpretation. No humans, just weird ass pictures of chairs. * Then something actually good: http://marc.merlins.org/linux/refundday/ http://marc.merlins.org/linux/refundday/ Apparently there was a Windows Refund day in 1999 where *nix users could get a refund for the copy of Windows that came in their PC.

alliao 4y ago

I got this http://nothings.org/writing/websucks.html http://nothings.org/writing/websucks.html so fascinating in 2004 the web already suck

anoncow 4y ago

I got https://www.stroustrup.com/ https://www.stroustrup.com/

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deepdmistry 4y ago

This is awesome, i found a very simple dutch oven bread recipe. Cant wait to try it.

spaceprison 4y ago

This is so great. I was just telling my son about the wonder of the old internet and how great stumbleupon was. Thanks for this.