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IDK why, but this reminds me of earlier days of internet, when it was full of random, non-usable but funny content like this. Best things often don't make that
by latedog 2y ago
IDK why, but this reminds me of earlier days of internet, when it was full of random, non-usable but funny content like this. Best things often don't make that much sense.
- jraph 2y agoA form of art :-)
- cprecioso 2y agoI miss StumbleUpon
- arrowsmith 2y agoWait, StumbleUpon shut down? I had no idea. That's sad, that site was great.
- Tijdreiziger 2y agoThere’s this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42938061 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42938061 (no affiliation)
- 1121redblackgo 2y agoAnd this: https://cloudhiker.net/ https://cloudhiker.net/ (also no affiliation)
- lippihom 2y agoAhhh - golden age of internet fun. Looks like they sold the domain and/or pivoted a bit. Feel like a modern version would be relatively easy to monetize if someone were to ramp it up again.
- matteason 2y agoI've noticed https://clicktheredbutton.com https://clicktheredbutton.com quite a lot in my referrer analytics. I don't know if it's as featureful as StumbleUpon was (I never used it) but it seems to have some fun sites
- reverendsteveii 2y agostumble was the algo sweet spot. an endless feed of things that are slightly better than being alone with my thoughts, but no parasocial "community" with concomitant toxicity.
- ilrwbwrkhv 2y agoYeah I think what killed the web was Google and Facebook. The former brought massive amounts of spam and the latter brought real identies which broke the freedom of the internet. Or in other words, both brought the Internet and made it real and connected with the real world. And I think that's not a good thing. The Internet was supposed to be a virtual space for exploration, learning, fun, and it should have had no bearing on our actual day-to-day living experience. But now here we are where Google is a spam filled search engine which hardly returns any products and Facebook is a dystopian wasteland and its founder is walking around like a teenage pimp.
- herval 2y agoI don't think real identities broke the internet... what really did it was the perfecting of the addiction formula, by multiple companies (from facebook to king). It turned it into an Opium den
- ilrwbwrkhv 2y agoI think companies would have had a much harder time in perfecting the addiction formula if things were anonymous.
- herval 2y agoTiktok is entirely anonymous (well other than you showing your face if you post). So is Reddit. So is Candy Crush...
- SiempreViernes 2y agoWe all still had defined identities back then, the nicks, even if we didn't use real names. And those are enough for targeting.
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- cosmotron 2y agoKagi Small Web has been fun to explore and reminds me a bit of the StumbleUpon of yore: https://kagi.com/smallweb https://kagi.com/smallweb If you'd like to read more: https://blog.kagi.com/small-web https://blog.kagi.com/small-web
- Apocryphon 2y agoAlso Wiby! https://wiby.me https://wiby.me
- dnlzro 2y agoHappy to hear that — it’s what I was going for :)
- Cthulhu_ 2y agoIf it was horrible and had music, it'd be like YTMND
- executesorder66 2y agoWhat do you mean non-usable? You could totally spam the work slack channel with these.
- hnaccount_rng 2y agoI don't think you are meaning quite the same "early internet" if you are referring to Slack channels xD
- Ensorceled 2y agoPretty sure they were addressing the "non-usuable" part and not the "early " part.
- devmor 2y agos/slack/irc
- executesorder66 2y agoAs sibling comments have correctly guessed, I was only responding to the "non-usable" part of the parent comment. But yeah, replace slack with IRC, email, or whatever you were using at work back in the day.
- ghayes 2y agoThough, sadly it's not a true image; it's composed as an SVG in HTML. So you can't copy-paste the image into chats.
- executesorder66 2y agoI noticed that after the fact as well. You could always manually take a screenshot to turn it into a jpg. Or just send the link.
- eterpstra 2y agoWelcome to ZOMBOCOM
- dylan604 2y agoTo this day, I still can't figure out how to do anything
- xtiansimon 2y agoMore clicking, please. OP mentions different versions, but you can’t get to them from one another (at least on mobile). The hyperlink is the aesthetic of www. If you don’t have them, then it should be evident why not. Leaves me scratching me head.
- dnlzro 2y agoI did that intentionally because the only thing I wanted on the page was the comic panel. I may reconsider and add a small info button in the corner of the page with links to other timescales and the source code. But I'm also trying not to overthink this too much... It's just a silly little website I made in an evening.
- whstl 2y agoI like the minimalism myself.
- skeeter2020 2y agoif you are going for a "classic" internet aesthetic, remember we loved wonky, quirky (and annoying) UX! If it's not grey background with blue and purple links (and a server timestamp in italics!) it's got to be completely custom & non-standard. My request is image maps please!
- xtiansimon 2y agoWhy not just make the comic panel itself a link? Click to cycle through the different messages…? I’m asking. Do you feel this changes the aesthetic significantly?
- fckgw 2y ago"Single-serving site" is the term you're looking for. The best part of the early, mass-appeal internet IMO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-serving_site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-serving_site
- dhosek 2y agodancing hamster
- waonderer 2y agoYou are telling me that my cosmic clock is not usable? https://cosmic-clock.vercel.app https://cosmic-clock.vercel.app PS. I made it for myself just for fun. Haven't checked issues such as time for other countries. Just checked, time still stays local (Indian) for me even if I use VPN to change my location. I am using p5 and JS for the two times.
- yencabulator 2y ago> non-usable https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/day https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/day would be easy to make into a very much usable clock. I'm actually a little disappointed it didn't already update as a minute passed ;-)