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One Million Screenshots
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- LorenDB 1y agoCloudflare Family DNS seems to be blocking this site.
- rakete 1y agoI saw at least one uncensored porn site in there.
- dathery 1y agoThis is a neat visualization. It makes me want to build something like this with actual screenshots (scraping from places like old forums, image hosting sites, etc.) rather than web page renderings. One of my most prized possessions is my collection of personal screenshots -- I've managed to save basically every screenshot I've taken over the past ~20 years. It's very nostalgic to put them on shuffle and see how my desktop has changed over time, remember what random thing I was working on, etc. Could be cool to extend the concept beyond one user.
- mockingloris 1y agoI screenshot all new sites I visit. A UI interaction catches my attention, I screenshot. My files system is 60% images. It's an habit. As a self-taught software dev; it helped me hone good design skills and also off topic - I poke around a lot when I visit certain websites to see which technologies they are built with. Maybe it was me testing js scripts or verifying the API/Object properties of certain functions - the habit stuck haha. Dey well
- stavros 1y agoPlease publish those screenshots somewhere, guys. They're a part of history, and we don't have enough of them.
- jasonfarnon 1y agoSame here. It sounds like you even started when I did, ca. 2006. Starting from the blackberry era to my current pixel I've tried to do something similar with my cell phones, but I never usually program in that environment so I never got it off the ground. When LLMs got good a couple years ago getting a screenshot task up and running on my android was one of the first things I tried, but it's been a pain. Apparently Android has been putting in guards against that type of application for security/privacy reasons.
- sandspar 1y agoI have an Android, and use the free Tasker app to automatically take a screenshot of my active phone screen every 19 minutes. It takes only a few minutes to set up the Tasker script. I have vague plans to do something with these one day. But until then, I hoard!
- jasonfarnon 1y agoDid tasker do it for you? I tried about 10 yrs ago but with no success. I'll give it another go, thanks. I don't have any future plans for these but similar to OP I see them on a "pictures screensaver", sometimes on chromecast to a TV. I certainly regret not having done this in the 90s, particularly the BBS era, so that is justification enough for me to continue doing it.
- sandspar 1y agoThe Tasker developers have spent a lot of effort making it easier to use. I used GPT-4o to advise me on mine. I'm sure any modern AI could handle it.
- SebasTAB 1y agojust started my collection 3 years ago. it feels more nostalgic and personal than my phone's photo collection ;)
- Insanity 1y agoI kind of wish I had that. The closest thing I have to this is my Steam screenshot library, which is just memories of games - or social interactions. on games. I just checked and the oldest one is back from 2011. Prior to Steam they would have been on Xfire, but as that service died, all of those are lost. Rarely any get added these days, and they're all on private. But it's fun to look back at which games I've played over the past ~14 years.
- keysdev 1y agoSeems like a lot bootstrap like templat sites. Not a lot melonking sites.
- game_the0ry 1y agoSometimes simple UI gets the job done well enough.
- mariocesar 1y agoEvery website looks so similar in design to one another that it feels eerie
- awb 1y agoFun fact: It would take ~278 hours to take a look at 1M websites for 1s each.
- r33b33 1y agoMeh... [big number] + [thing] meta seems overplayed by now
- doctorhandshake 1y agoOne of my art axioms: one thing is boring; one thousand of that thing is an installation
- dylan604 1y agoaxioms of large numbers. steal one person's money, go to jail. steal a lot of people's money, you're a bank. or some such.
- mockingloris 1y agoSomeone might use this in a Ted Talk! My younger bro makes music, my older bro (a dev like me) critiqued his new vocal track just this evening. I said it’s fire; he called it cliché. We exchanged looks, and my younger bro quipped, “Perspective is all it’s about.” We laughed. As they say, One man’s trash… Dey well
- r33b33 1y agoCritique is good. Only through BRUTAL critique can you polish perfection.
- mariocesar 1y agoClicking on the website to view the details appears to be broken
- esseph 1y agoMight have been a temporary glitch? Just tried and it's working here in the US.
- Unearned5161 1y agoI like the ones that are greyed out because they have some infernal popup about to appear
- wewewedxfgdf 1y agoWhy is this so fast
- Zealotux 1y agoIt's pretty clever optimization, it actually only shows a few dozens images at all times and only update the groups as you zoom in, for example https://tiles.onemillionscreenshots.com/2024-05-01/tiles/-1/-3/0.jpg https://tiles.onemillionscreenshots.com/2024-05-01/tiles/-1/... You don't even need something fancy like WebGPU/WebGL, just the CSS transition property will do the job there.
- Kiro 1y agoIt's "just" Leaflet but that's how all map libraries work. Super easy to implement and it can be used for much more than just maps.
- pan69 1y agoI assume that they are using some form of mipmapping, a technique by which you have several images at different sizes to represent different levels of detail. It is used a lot in 3D environments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mipmap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mipmap
- cloud-oak 1y agoIt is implemented using web maps technology (https://leafletjs.com/ https://leafletjs.com/), similar to e.g. the Google Maps satellite view. The screenshots are then served pre-assembled into quadratic map tiles at different zoom levels. This way the client only ever has to load and display a hand ful of relevant tiles.
- latchkey 1y agoI asked them to add my site and got spammed with some service they offer.
- internetter 1y agoIts as simple as your site not being one of the 1 million most trafficed
- blendaddict 1y agoWow, I‘m impressed. This is a really cool tool to get some inspiration as web dev. Although I have to say it‘s a bit scary how similar all the websites look nowadays…
- hn-user-42 1y agozoomed out image looks interesting https://i.postimg.cc/SK0CMnPt/ss.png https://i.postimg.cc/SK0CMnPt/ss.png
- dylan604 1y agoSomething is weird with some of the gray areas where it'll say "this screenshot appears broken", but I thought it was just my machine. Your image looks very similar in the the broken in the same pattern. So I guess it wasn't just my connection and caching issues.
- lelandfe 1y agoLike a sonar sweep straight outta SSN-21 Seawolf
- starchild3001 1y agoGlad to see "dead internet theory" not holding up! PS: As someone who worked on internet search, I can assure you that at least half of most popular web pages change in about 6 months time. And the change is in no way something that can be done by bots.
- bookofjoe 1y agoMine is far from popular and hasn't changed at all in 21 years.
- AuthAuth 1y agoThis is dead internet theory though. Instead of seeing personal websites we see its mostly business fronts. Internet has gone from a place where every can have their own space to a business catalog.
- AuthAuth 1y agoThis is dead internet theory though. Instead of seeing personal websites we see its mostly business fronts.
- MrVandemar 1y agoA million websites is not even close to touching “the long tail”.
- Fade_Dance 1y agoVery cool. Would be interesting for a more niche filter criteria, since you aren't exactly finding many hidden gems in the top million mostly corporate sites. Maybe AI could provide that filter (top 1 million "niche" sites, or smaller sites that have been around since the late 90s).
- karpour 1y agoThis really makes clear how boring web design has become. 99% of websites use the same standard layout, there's almost nothing distinct or exciting about any of the designs. I remember web design being an art form, with books being printed with the best designs... I'd visit brand websites just to look at the design itself, even if I wasn't interested in what they were selling. Of course not all is bad, but I'd love to see some creativity again, it seems like almost no one dares to break the norm anymore.
- esseph 1y agoThere was some F1 website posted on here the other day and it was absolutely beautiful, but a bit quirky to use in practice. Ton of people complained, they hated it! That's why everything is fucking boring, because everybody tries to cater to the average.
- bookofjoe 1y agoI tried really hard to like that F1 website but just couldn't do it: terrible experience.
- verdverm 1y agoFrom the well aged book "Don't Make Me Think", people read the web differently than books. Almost always they are there to find information or get something accomplished, not for aesthetics or pleasure (though social media has likely skewed this since it's penning) This is why consistent UX beats out cleaver design (churn)
- esseph 1y agoBring back those crazy flash websites from the early 2000s
- appreciatorBus 1y agoPls no. Like if someone wants to do crazy stuff, that’s fine, do it as an art project, whatever. But IMO the only people who benefit when businesses and institutions are required to turn their websites into works of art, are artists. Everyone else is worse off.
- awb 1y agoIt would be interesting to analyze this dataset in terms of colors, layout, features, fonts, photos, etc. to be able to statistically measure the uniqueness or creativity of a given web design.
- milancurcic 1y agoThis site breaks the browser's back button.
- gurjeet 1y agoAnd it does it in an unusual way. After browsing around on the website and then noticing that the back button history is just the same site name repeated many times, I worried about my history needlessly polluted by this website. But when I opened my browser history, it was just a handful of URLs in there, each representing the screenshot I had actually clicked on. So, yes, it does break the back button, but it doesn't pollute the actual history.
- KyleBerezin 1y agoThis is so odd. How is the entire history stack populated with 1 entry?
- netsharc 1y agoBarely related despite their names: Damn, http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com is 20 years old... What a story: https://thehustle.co/million-dollar-homepage-alex-tew https://thehustle.co/million-dollar-homepage-alex-tew
- Brajeshwar 1y agoCool. Thanks for including my website.
- kachapopopow 1y agoThis just makes me realize that entirety of the internet has just become a gateway to sell you something.
- captainkrtek 1y agoIt’s been a continual evolution of making everything commercialized.
- armchairhacker 1y agoSomeone could make: one million screenshots of indie homepages, e.g. from https://explore.marginalia.nu/view https://explore.marginalia.nu/view EDIT: I just realized, there are weird sites even on onemillionscreenshots.com. Type in obscure, older-style URLs via the search bar until you find one, then go to its screenshot. If you're lucky the surrounding sites will be more older-style and weird, less store pages. Example: https://onemillionscreenshots.com/?q=red-lang.org https://onemillionscreenshots.com/?q=red-lang.org, https://onemillionscreenshots.com/?q=gunnerkrigg.com https://onemillionscreenshots.com/?q=gunnerkrigg.com
- speerer 1y agoTake heart: I checked this by taking a random screenshot, and browsing down to see how long it took me to find a commercial page. A quick sense of my trail was really encouraging: - Open source wasm runtime - Science transparency campaign - Netherlands gov anti-climate change program - open thesaurus - GNOME conference - France's portal of towns and cities - Scientific measurement standardistion page - Scientific journal - free eBook library - parked domain - Linux community - Open source graphics library - placeholder/template blog - A book publisher (selling books!) It took quite a while to find a commercial site,and that itself (a bookseller) is a positive thing itself.
- hulium 1y agoIt seems like the screenshots are clustered in some way. That is especially visible when you zoom out.
- 4gotunameagain 1y ago
- socalgal2 1y agoneat but not actually screenshots. Screenshots would show windows, menus, etc.....
- tzahifadida 1y agoRarely I save something like this. Addicting. Saved it in my daily news. It is interesting to get new ideas by just clicking on the zoom button.
- jot 1y agoHi HN, I’m one of the makers of this - thank you for posting! We built it in early 2024 and it’s due an update. While the main visualisation is currently out of date we’ve been grabbing screenshots monthly for the last 18 months. There’s a a free (no key required) API to all the data at https://ScreenshotOf.com https://ScreenshotOf.com I’d love to hear any ideas you have for improving it.
- rcpt 1y agoYou can embed the images and then organize them like this https://ryancompton.net/2017/08/18/one-thousand-captcha-photos-organized-with-a-neural-network.html https://ryancompton.net/2017/08/18/one-thousand-captcha-phot...
- jot 1y agoThank you! This is exactly what I want to do with this. I have embeddings for all the images but hadn’t figured out the last step to getting them onto a grid like that. Can’t wait to try this.
- fxtentacle 1y agoT-stochastic neighbour embedding
- willvarfar 1y agoVery cool! A long time ago I used to make mosaics of game-making competition screenshots https://williame.github.io/post/143376853353.html https://williame.github.io/post/143376853353.html https://williame.github.io/post/127137593983.html https://williame.github.io/post/127137593983.html The algorithm for doing so is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_algorithm It might be fun to offer some mosaic layouts as well as the embedding-based layouts?
- joduplessis 1y agoNice! Only suggestion would be to not snap the zoom (when using the keyboard) - but very cool!
- washmyelbows 1y agoNot much yellow on the web
- tjosten 1y agoFinding my app's website on this made me giggle :)
- Bengalilol 1y agoThis gave me anxiety. First time I experience doom scrolling without scrolling nor even spending more than 1 minute on a page. Great work !
- Fornax96 1y agoNeat, my personal site pixeldrain.com is in there
- jstanley 1y agoI'm getting: > Secure Connection Failed > An error occurred during a connection to onemillionscreenshots.com. Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s). > Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP Firefox 130 from Snap on Ubuntu. And I don't recall customising any SSL configuration to restrict the set of available ciphers or similar.
- mustaphah 1y agoSuper cool idea… but the "similar title" feature seems broken - the whole similarity thing I guess. Tried apple.com[1] and got rolandd.com as #1. Not gonna lie, I was expecting at least an orchard or some other fruit. [1] https://onemillionscreenshots.com/apple.com/similar/title https://onemillionscreenshots.com/apple.com/similar/title
- araes 1y agoSeemed like the WWW was kind of focused on only using certain colors in webpages, so I checked with a histogram. Not quite as pronounced as it seemed at first, yet definite spikes around 0.7, or 178. https://imgur.com/a/1hpqlp3 https://imgur.com/a/1hpqlp3