You gotta wonder who's been hosting, paying for said hosting, and maintaining (they moved to HTML5 a few years back) it all of these years. It is one of the longest running pieces of internet history and I love it
Hacker News is great because there a lots of interesting discussions and articles especually on Ask HN. It feels like a high quality tech/programming subreddit but without the disadvantages of reddit.
https://news.ycombinator.com/
I used to be a mod on Nonsensopedia.
https://nonsa.pl/wiki/Strona_g%C5%82%C3%B3
It was a wikipedia-like thing, but with humorous stuff. I think it is abandonned now. There were a lot of garbage, but also some really well-written satires, that took a lot of writing skill of many authors to make. It is in polish, so most of you probabbly won't be able to read it. Reading it through a translator is not a good idea, because it contains A LOT of language humor and references to polish culture/memes/politics
Neocities! It's a spiritual successor to Geocities from ye olde internet, and it rocks. Poke through the directory of sites, there's some wild stuff on there.
The SCP wiki is always a fun place to lose a couple of hours. Here’s how they describe themselves:
The SCP Wiki is a collaborative speculative fiction website about the SCP Foundation, a secretive organization that contains anomalous or supernatural items and entities away from the eyes of the public.
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RankWeis@sh.itjust.works · 56 pts · 3y
http://www.zombo.com
blazarious@mylem.me · 10 pts · 3y
wtf
christophski@feddit.uk · 13 pts · 3y
It's been running since 1999
ThatGuyFromWork@lemm.ee · 17 pts · 3y
You gotta wonder who's been hosting, paying for said hosting, and maintaining (they moved to HTML5 a few years back) it all of these years. It is one of the longest running pieces of internet history and I love it
argentcorvid@midwest.social · 7 pts · 3y
You can do anything at zombo.com
randomaccount43543@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Whaat?! 🤣🤣 So random!
257m@lemmy.ml · 28 pts · 3y
Hacker News is great because there a lots of interesting discussions and articles especually on Ask HN. It feels like a high quality tech/programming subreddit but without the disadvantages of reddit. https://news.ycombinator.com/
residentmarchant@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 3y
I'm conflicted on if I want to upvote this because I like HN or downvote it because I don't want more people posting worse content there
The thing I love about HN is that it's perfectly acceptable to browse at work since I would classify it as "industry news"
substill@vlemmy.net · 14 pts · 3y
http://www.ytmnd.com
greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 3y
Wow I forgot about that
VirginChad@reddthat.com · 13 pts · 3y
I used to be a mod on Nonsensopedia. https://nonsa.pl/wiki/Strona_g%C5%82%C3%B3 It was a wikipedia-like thing, but with humorous stuff. I think it is abandonned now. There were a lot of garbage, but also some really well-written satires, that took a lot of writing skill of many authors to make. It is in polish, so most of you probabbly won't be able to read it. Reading it through a translator is not a good idea, because it contains A LOT of language humor and references to polish culture/memes/politics
There was also a similar project in english (Uncyclopedia), but Nonsensopedia was way better https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Main_Page
MxRemy@lemmy.one · 12 pts · 3y
Neocities! It's a spiritual successor to Geocities from ye olde internet, and it rocks. Poke through the directory of sites, there's some wild stuff on there.
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 3y
It's a great place to go if you are learning web design and want to practice what you've learned without having to pay an arm and a leg for a site.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 3y
Usenet and IRC. Roam the realms of your ancestors.
amoroso@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 3y
Blogs. It's amazing how many gems and great content are buried in countless blogs, maintained or abandoned.
curryandbeans@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y
TV Tropes
plenipotentprotogod@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
The SCP wiki is always a fun place to lose a couple of hours. Here’s how they describe themselves:
And here’s an example page about a moth with mind control powers
WildlyCanadian@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 3y
I've spent so much time reading and listening to SCPs. Love that shit
Nemo@midwest.social · 10 pts · 3y
It has always been about the personal, non-blog (or not-just-blog) websites.
well, that and horserentals.com
Derpmandurr@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 3y
I'm not sure what I expected from horserentals.com....
Quill0@lemmy.digitalfall.net · 6 pts · 3y
I feel like this is a parody but having seen the early days of the world wide web I know I'm mistaken.
EthernalExplorer@reddthat.com · 10 pts · 3y
https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random is a good place to discover personal websites, or less popular sites in general
blazarious@mylem.me · 2 pts · 3y
Interesting, thanks.
FippleStone@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 3y
This site lives in my psyche https://www.lingscars.com/ And I think https://www.windows93.net is pretty fun
kuneho@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
long live Ling
blazarious@mylem.me · 3 pts · 3y
Oh, yes, totally forgot about windows93! 😃
nueonetwo@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 3y
What the hell even is that. It's like what they thought the internet was going to be in the 90s.
mnrockclimber@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 3y
Gopherspace, Gemini, and the smallweb/smolweb in general.
argentcorvid@midwest.social · 1 pts · 3y
You got any good sites for those? Especially gemini?
tomasz@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 3y
https://readsomethingwonderful.com/p/
popemichael@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Fark.com is one of the oldest link agitator sites out there.
I found it during September 11th when all the other news sites went down due to traffic. It's still going just as strong, if not stronger, today.
It's for sure a lemmy alternative / supplement
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 3y
Neocities. Hobbiest forums but they're mostly moved to Facebook.
Slothmonger@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
An old favourite of mine http://muffinfilms.com/
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y
I didn't know this was the same person who made the Making Fiends animations until I clicked on the giftshop link.
BendyLemmy@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 3y
https://digg.com/ still fun. https://cat-gpt.com/chat - the BEST instance of GPT by far. https://driveandlisten.herokuapp.com/home https://window-swap.com/
esty@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 3y
I tried curating some on a sublemmy
if that doesn’t work it’s !coolwebsites@lemmy.ca C:
baduhai@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 3y
Semantics, I know, but important to learn a new platform's terminology.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y
tomasz@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y
https://indieblog.page/
fugepe@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y
If you ever played tibia: http://www.nightmareknights.com/
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
jajareded@discuss.online · 1 pts · 3y
Ian's shoelace site is the best resource for everything regarding shoe tying and lacing. If you need to tie your shoe better, this is the place.
jajareded@discuss.online · 1 pts · 3y
ToS;DR (Full name: Terms of Service; Didn't Read) actually makes terms of service agreements understandable.
meiti@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
https://radioparadise.com/
257m@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
tomasz@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 3y
https://mood.surf/
Tsouintsouin@lemmy.sdf.org · -1 pts · 3y
Reddit is pretty dope I heard
adistantmirror@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Laughing and tears