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This year I regained my love for the web. Not related to technology about how the Internet is built. My journey starts with writing my own RSS client, which re
by renegat0x0 2y ago
This year I regained my love for the web. Not related to technology about how the Internet is built.
My journey starts with writing my own RSS client, which required me to learn more about HTTP protocol. I had to find interesting RSS sources. So I did. I found some sources. When did you actively searched for a science blog? Science channel?
Then I transformed my program into web scraping machine. I captured domains from the web. Each domain can reference a other domain. Through references I captured new domains. Some are boring, some are not, but I live more outside of google bubble now. Since I use bookmarking in my software I can go back to interesting places. From time to time I check what new entered my program. Sometime websites from Singapore, sometimes a China state propaganda machine, sometimes some new 'reverse engineering' page blog, sometimes a blog that has been dead for several years, but contains funny articles.
Sometimes I test my database of links to check if it contains something new with 'hack', or 'reverse engineering'. My search as answer provides domain names, so I do not have to go through content farms.
I started checking Google results vs Yandex vs kagi, and other search engines. I used my curiosity to find many more search engines, like https://zarebin.ir https://zarebin.ir, or https://search.seznam.cz https://search.seznam.cz, or marginalia search.
I search for anything related to old stuff. Therefore I try to find old fan pages about "diablo 2", or "quake", or "tomb raider" to see if anything exists anymore. Some things exists, but they hide at 6th page of results, and I have been there many times in recent months.
I opened my mind about search. I test myself to invent new search terms to find new stuff.
I know there is a lot negativity, about "build tools", or the approach, that does not stop me from searching new things.
Domain repository: https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database