Damn, Zombocom. I remember taking a Photoshop class in highschool, probably 2004 or so, and we were able to sync up all like 35 computers to play Zombocom at the same time. It was a really wonderful thing to hear, Zombocom in 70.0, crappy computer speaker quality.
The thing that people wouldn't get today is that zombocom was a spoof site of other stuff that was out there that was actually kind of like this. People - usually someone trying to ride the emerging .com wave - would barf up these incomplete early web sites with promises that absolutely would never be delivered.
The thing that people wouldn't get today is that zombocom was a spoof site of other stuff that was out there that was actually kind of like this. People - usually someone trying to ride the emerging .com wave - would barf up these incomplete early web sites with promises that absolutely would never be delivered.
This is absolutely amazing! I do hope the absolute best for Jannine, she sounds wonderful. I've never been so invested in a restaurant employee on the other side of the planet.
There definitely are ones. Back when I worked at a smaller tech company, I had an old co-worker who was solely responsible for running our internal DNS. They periodically created new internal URLs that redirected to Rickrolls and shared hid them in random internal docs.
My favorite was one he gave to our CEO who put it in a PowerPoint without checking it first and he clicked it during a presentation! Everyone was a good sport about it.
I made it because I found the filesize limitation of catbox to be too small, and I want to host other stuff than pictures and videos too.
It requires a login to upload stuff, as I don't want to deal with the headache of accepting anonymous uploads, and I might make it into something "proper" one day.
I can set you up with an account if you want. If so, DM me your chosen username and an email address (the latter doesn't have to be valid, but I do intend to have a password reset function at some point)
Thanks!
I discovered you don't need to build a transformer to be openai compatible. This operates more as a slot machine so I didn't waste energy training a model to be a duck and its more lightweight.
There's 70ish possible responses with varying rarities and just a simple rule not to repeat the same one twice.
If you use the website or API there is a slight chance your "data" will be captured by your ISP or HF, but it's open source and super lightweight so you can run it locally.
If you are super security minded you might notice there are 3 things obfuscated in the source code. They are just fun Easter eggs obfuscated like a spoiler tag, but it's just base64 so you can easily audit to verify my claim that it's humor not vulnerability.
Once upon a time, there was a site called StumbleUpon which was a glorified search engine, except you basically only picked a category/topic and their service would redirect you to some random page on the net that was under the category.
The site went down eventually and they took off their extension. They eventually turned into Mix, but now you can actually still find StumbleUpon out there. They've closed off their actual capability for some reason.
The closest thing we have now maybe that doesn't exactly match but for giggles, is the useless web:
I mean, I still consider this page cool. It seems to have originated in 2016, and IMO it's not quite the 90s ‘dancing baby’ design or Myspace, but instead has a definite whiff of Tumblr art circa early-mid 2010s. I liked psychedelic-ish Tumblr art, it gave a whimsical perspective on life.
My “silly little website” isn’t really that silly — it’s about exploring clean, alternative power like aluminum–air and saltwater systems.
I’m genuinely interested in how such chemistry-based power could support resilience in remote or disaster-prone areas.
That’s what I’ve been building at www.wehometool.com
.
Not really a website with custom domain, but Anuken's Personal Website is kinda funny, even more so when you realize this cat is the developer of the famous open-source game Mindustry
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Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works · 54 pts · 284d
http://www.staggeringbeauty.com/ is an oldie but a goodie
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 284d
This is a masterpiece.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 284d
I just get a dead website.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 284d
Same. I checked on PC and developed epilepsy at 38. Great website.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 284d
Like, did you actually get a site...?
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 284d
I did. It was silly and flashy.
randombullet@programming.dev · 3 pts · 284d
The website only uses http so you'll need to disable https mode if you want
aarRJaay@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 284d
I nearly dropped my phone you a-hole 🤪
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 284d
Oh... this seizure of a site. Good thing I turned bluetooth off so I wouldn't throw my headphones at the wall.
Flying_Dutch_Rudder@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 284d
Wow
thenextguy@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 284d
zombo.com
http://drawafish.com/
The Really Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 284d
Damn, Zombocom. I remember taking a Photoshop class in highschool, probably 2004 or so, and we were able to sync up all like 35 computers to play Zombocom at the same time. It was a really wonderful thing to hear, Zombocom in 70.0, crappy computer speaker quality.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 284d
The thing that people wouldn't get today is that zombocom was a spoof site of other stuff that was out there that was actually kind of like this. People - usually someone trying to ride the emerging .com wave - would barf up these incomplete early web sites with promises that absolutely would never be delivered.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 284d
It was truly a time where anything was possible.
airbornestar@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 283d
Would the modern version of this be a parody AI? Because honestly between this and AI there's quite a parallel.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 284d
The thing that people wouldn't get today is that zombocom was a spoof site of other stuff that was out there that was actually kind of like this. People - usually someone trying to ride the emerging .com wave - would barf up these incomplete early web sites with promises that absolutely would never be delivered.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 284d
Damn, that button is almost as old as me.
Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 280d
Right as I pushed the button, my partner turned off the lights. It was freaky.
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 30 pts · 284d
I like the community !coolwebsites@lemmy.ca there's a ton there.
Neocities.org have some awesome sites as well.
Blaze@piefed.zip · 7 pts · 284d
!internetisbeautiful@piefed.social
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 3 pts · 284d
https://piefed.social/f/smallweb
If we are doing more piefed links :D
Blaze@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 284d
The one with ! works for all instances
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 2 pts · 284d
Does it work for aggregate /f/ links? !smallweb@piefed.social
Nope. Makes sense.
Blaze@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 284d
Oh sorry, didn't notice you linked a feed above
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 2 pts · 284d
Its all good!
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 284d
Instant sub lol I love these things.
regdog@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 284d
https://haveadandyday.com/
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 284d
This is exactly what this world needs more of.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 284d
I've actually used HTTP cats at work. You can call it inside your own error messages with
https://http.cat/[status_code]renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net · 8 pts · 284d
Saving this.
They even have my favorite: https://http.cat/418
shalafi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 284d
405 and 431 get me giggling! So many more to love.
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net · 3 pts · 283d
Haha 405 really dates lolcats, eh?
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 284d
The only limit is yourself at https://zombo.com/
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 284d
Hey that's twice I've been linked there!
TootSweet@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 284d
https://zombo.com/
paurix@discuss.tchncs.de · 17 pts · 284d
https://xn--bruzzelhtte-0hb.de/ Local Currywurst place has this legendary website
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 284d
This is absolutely amazing! I do hope the absolute best for Jannine, she sounds wonderful. I've never been so invested in a restaurant employee on the other side of the planet.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 284d
Oh my God it murders my laptop. Love the website though, it's fantastic.
TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 284d
That's incredible
DrDystopia@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 283d
Oh wow I wished the entire web was like this. Not only a single würstjoint in Germany but world wide. Like a world wide web.
tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz · 16 pts · 284d
https://clocks.brianmoore.com/
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 283d
I know hating ai is the style of the times, but I love watching them do things like this. Honestly, ai as a goofy little toy would be so much better.
Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 283d
Amazing!
Secret_Music@piefed.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 284d
https://www.penisland.net/
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net · 5 pts · 284d
This is great.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 284d
I'm so disappointed that the official pens are unavailable, I need pens for my office.
testfactor@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 284d
https://isitchristmas.com/
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 284d
This was incredibly informative, thank you.
DrDystopia@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 283d
Thanks, I will check in regularly.
n4ch1sm0@piefed.social · 13 pts · 284d
OMFG DOGS
nafzib@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 284d
This is peak Internet. Thank you for sharing!
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 284d
Imagine my surprise and amusement to discover that https://www.realultimatepower.net/ is still online.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 284d
That and theBestPageInTheUniverse were formative
(I say, realizing that I remember nearly none of them besides vibes)
Zikeji@programming.dev · 12 pts · 284d
https://mind.blowing.science/
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 284d
The idea of posting the URL to a stand alone meme gif instead of actually posting the gif feels like the highest tier of memeing.
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net · 2 pts · 284d
That is how the rickroll came to be…
I actually shocked no one did that in this thread (yet).
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 283d
Honestly, I'm shocked there isn't a small site that's just a rickroll to get around everyone that's memorized the YouTube URL.
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net · 3 pts · 283d
There definitely are ones. Back when I worked at a smaller tech company, I had an old co-worker who was solely responsible for running our internal DNS. They periodically created new internal URLs that redirected to Rickrolls and shared hid them in random internal docs.
My favorite was one he gave to our CEO who put it in a PowerPoint without checking it first and he clicked it during a presentation! Everyone was a good sport about it.
Those were good times…
patrick@lemmy.bestiver.se · 11 pts · 284d
https://faxyourballs.com/
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 284d
Lucy pic on the balls list made my entire day.
cRazi_man@europe.pub · 9 pts · 284d
Shout out to how much I miss Stumble Upon from the earlier days of the internet.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 283d
I never got to experience it and I mourn the loss all the same.
oascany@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 284d
https://www.pictureofhotdog.com/
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 283d
Truely a masterpiece.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 284d
dreifir.com
I made it because I found the filesize limitation of catbox to be too small, and I want to host other stuff than pictures and videos too.
It requires a login to upload stuff, as I don't want to deal with the headache of accepting anonymous uploads, and I might make it into something "proper" one day.
EDIT: Catbox, not carbon. Ducking autocorrect.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 284d
Oooo like a response pics folder but on the internet!
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 284d
I can set you up with an account if you want. If so, DM me your chosen username and an email address (the latter doesn't have to be valid, but I do intend to have a password reset function at some point)
tamiya_tt02@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 284d
https://bosshobbies.neocities.org/ I made a website to help score Beyblade X games, and turned it into a watchapp for the Pebble watchapp https://apps.rebble.io/en_US/application/68efa55f5bf09a0009eac172
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 283d
I absolutely love nieche hobby things like this!
AnthropomorphicCat@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 284d
https://cat-bounce.com/
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 284d
This was amazing, thank you
Unlearned9545@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 284d
https://bearjcc-quack-language-model.hf.space/ Chat with a rubber duck
smiletolerantly@awful.systems · 6 pts · 284d
Fantastic. Best use of language models I've seen.
Unlearned9545@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 283d
Thanks! I discovered you don't need to build a transformer to be openai compatible. This operates more as a slot machine so I didn't waste energy training a model to be a duck and its more lightweight. There's 70ish possible responses with varying rarities and just a simple rule not to repeat the same one twice. If you use the website or API there is a slight chance your "data" will be captured by your ISP or HF, but it's open source and super lightweight so you can run it locally. If you are super security minded you might notice there are 3 things obfuscated in the source code. They are just fun Easter eggs obfuscated like a spoiler tag, but it's just base64 so you can easily audit to verify my claim that it's humor not vulnerability.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 283d
https://boringboringboring.com/
Once upon a time, there was a site called StumbleUpon which was a glorified search engine, except you basically only picked a category/topic and their service would redirect you to some random page on the net that was under the category.
The site went down eventually and they took off their extension. They eventually turned into Mix, but now you can actually still find StumbleUpon out there. They've closed off their actual capability for some reason.
The closest thing we have now maybe that doesn't exactly match but for giggles, is the useless web:
https://theuselessweb.com/
thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 283d
This one is also kinda cool for those that are interested:
https://whathappenedinmybirthyear.com/
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 283d
Dotlink — just someone's personal page with a peculiar design.
It seems to be partly inspired by r/Ooer (you need to have custom subreddit css allowed on this link, or open it in an incognito tab).
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 283d
Oh man, I miss that brief moment when people who had sites like this were cool and interesting. There was so much more life in the internet.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 283d
I mean, I still consider this page cool. It seems to have originated in 2016, and IMO it's not quite the 90s ‘dancing baby’ design or Myspace, but instead has a definite whiff of Tumblr art circa early-mid 2010s. I liked psychedelic-ish Tumblr art, it gave a whimsical perspective on life.
48954246@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 283d
https://madeupandprobablydoesnotexist.com/taskbar/
And the parent site
https://madeupandprobablydoesnotexist.com/
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 283d
Where did they get this video of me dancing?
TanteTarantel@feddit.org · 5 pts · 284d
https://purrli.com/
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 284d
Omg I'm going to go out at my cat!
Amanda527@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 284d
My “silly little website” isn’t really that silly — it’s about exploring clean, alternative power like aluminum–air and saltwater systems. I’m genuinely interested in how such chemistry-based power could support resilience in remote or disaster-prone areas. That’s what I’ve been building at www.wehometool.com .
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 283d
This is actually amazing and will probably be this weeks deep dive.
q1p_@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 283d
remon@ani.social · 5 pts · 284d
Lemmy.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 284d
I don't know, I hear only absolute dinguses post things there...
remon@ani.social · 10 pts · 284d
airbornestar@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 283d
Not really a website with custom domain, but Anuken's Personal Website is kinda funny, even more so when you realize this cat is the developer of the famous open-source game Mindustry
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 284d
Is YTMND.com out of favor? I can't remember if something happened at some point and people started to hate it.
I have Captain Jean-Luc Picard, USS Enterprise, burned into my head.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 284d
It's not popular anymore, but it is still alive with new stuff being made on it all the time.
bhamlin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 284d
https://broclock.appspot.com/
TheBat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 284d
bazzett@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 282d
https://sandspiel.club/
I've wasted so many hours playing there.
gajahmada@awful.systems · 3 pts · 282d
https://theuselessweb.site/nooooooooooooooo/
I put it in my homescreen, very useful.
alt_xa_23@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 282d
Here's a few:
https://www.bruno-simon.com/
https://www.hmpg.net/
https://qntm.org/hatetris
other_cat@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 282d
https://brutal.io/
The Orb Must Grow
ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org · 1 pts · 283d
Pink Trombone
Doesn't wirk on mobile, I'm afraid.