You're welcome! I was an older teenager when the worldwide web started taking off in '94 — is that what you mean? A lot of people associate the Internet and the WWW, but IIRC the first email was sent in the 1960s. I'm getting old. Sometimes I feel old, sometimes I feel young. As a gamer, I try to stay current with tech, but while I like some modern games, I'm having so much fun catching up on 360/PS3 and 3ds era gaming. Like my wife got Animal Crossing for the Switch, but I'm enjoying the 3ds version more. It's a bit older, a bit uglier, my girl has hair like Claire/Molly Ringwald in Breakfast Club, but it's okay, I'll unlock the hair salon eventually.
I think there's a guide. I follow them on Telegram and they post whenever they add something (with a direct link to the coordinates). Lately he's been working on the flea market area with Link and Zelda.
I’m not saying it’s the coolest, but I made a thing to scratch an itch that others may enjoy. I modeled it after something I found a few decades back that I never found again.
I tried it but the game is kind of confusing cause it uses relays instead of transistors. I think it's more frustrating and would only discourage potential learners.
A better way to get a solid grasp on low-level hardware logic is to just build an eight-bit breadboard computer. Here's a tutorial: https://eater.net/8bit
I'm working on it now. I've only done the first module so far and I've already learned so much.
I just tried it and it's so much harder to understand than just playing around with transistors on a breadboard.
Like, I can easily make a nand gate with a couple NPNs and a PNP. But I couldn't figure out what they wanted me to do with those relays, so I didn't get past the first task.
Sure, building your own breadboard computer is much better than playing with some website... However transistors and relays are kind of similar in function, they both gate whether current flows.
If you are already familiar with transistors, then I agree those are a simpler introduction, however most regular people don't know anything about a transistor, and they seem a little bit magical.
A relay however can be grasped by most people just by looking at it in operation. Magnet attracts... Electromagnets only attracts when powered... wire doesn't conduct when not connected... Wire does conduct when connected... Electromagnet can pull or push wire to either connect or disconnect...
If you want the solution for the first task (building a nand gate with relays), you can see my solution here:
::: spoiler spoiler
:::
I went through all the units. They were interesting, and I definitely learned a bunch. I probably won't remember it all right away, but I at least have a better idea of the overall picture. It'll be reinforced as I continue my breadboard project, but also supports my theoretical understanding of that project. So I'd say it was worth it.
Imagine my surprise when I got to the end and realized there are multiple paths that branch off from there into new units 😱
IIRC, they'll add new books every year, as older books slowly become Public Domain, so classics like a bunch of Tarzan books (though not all of them, yet) have become available.
Also, for those that don't get the name: Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press that was much better than existing presses (and pretty new to Europe).
Project Gutenberg predates the internet. I still remember how their goal was to give away one trillion ebooks.
Project Gutenberg is still around, so I won't say this is an example of the internet getting worse. But I loathe how it's come to focus on damnable social media like there's nothing else of worth out there. Social media, among other things, filled the air with noise that starved many worthwhile projects of attention.
It's the weirdest shit I've ever seen. Before I get into it, I want to point out that I've been using this site for years, since before LLMs were a thing, so this is definitely not generated by AI.
It's just like, generic outline drawings of things. Objects, people, places, everything.
So sometimes I like to draw, and I need a model to work from for the pose and the proportions, and this site has a ton of them. Child kicking a ball? Yes. Adult man sitting on a bench? Several options to choose from. Woman carrying a box? Three different poses.
Pointing, pushing, protesting, thinking, vacuuming, raising one's hand to summon a waiter in a restaurant, it's all there.
I'm sure there's some kind of industrial use for it, like for diagrams or blueprints or something, but then we get to the descriptions. Like on the page for people carrying boxes, it says:
People lift boxes either in their personal lives or at work. People lift boxes to move residences. Mailmen or delivery truck drivers lift boxes everyday as part of their job. Some jobs may require their applicants to be able to lift a certain weight of box. When lifting boxes, it is important to lift with your knees instead of your back to prevent back injury.
Then there's always three questions, which they provide answers to. For carrying, those questions are:
What is a carry on bag?
What is carrying capacity?
How much can a horse carry?
Why? Whom is that for?
Under the pictures of elderly people it asks things like "What are the best exercises for maintaining mobility in seniors?" and "How can seniors adapt their homes for safety and accessibility?"
Is this for dolphins? Did a dolphin learn to read English, and they want to understand human society?
I'm struggling to find the weirdest examples, because honestly it's the breadth as well as the depth. Someone clearly put a ton of work into this, and I love it, but I don't understand it.
But they'd have written it in alienese. That's why I say dolphins - without a formal writing system of their own, they'd naturally default to a human one for the purpose of studying humans.
Why do architects and designers need a description of what carrying boxes is?
Say you work for a firm that mostly does office buildings. This firm hasn't done a building with a mail room in decades, but now has a project with a mail room for whatever reason. There is no one at the office that would know this info, so you need to look it up. For safety and liability, you have to design for ergonomics. You use the 2d drawings for your details and elevations that explain it.
Why do they need tips on senior mobility?
Similar, the firm does hospitals, but was asked to do a senior living home. There are very specific requirements for elderly living. There are classes on this alone for architects and designers. If you are an older designer, you might need to know new info and studies out there. You use these for elevations so you can design heights and materials and finishes for the elderly. For example, if all of the colors are the same for the hallway, the elderly won't be able to distinguish between the floor and the walls.
It sounds like you've never known an architect or designer before. There is a lot of information going on in their heads, especially for healthcare or anywhere there needs to be repetitive work done. Architects and designers are liable for what goes into their drawings. They're contracts.
Fair enough. Those were bad examples. Explain this one, under "thinking":
How do you stop thinking about someone?
To stop thinking about someone look for closure. Other methods may include finding someone else to think about, thinking of their negative traits, staying busy, and most importantly, respecting yourself. In the end, remember that it will all pass, and while there might not be a short term plan, patience and initiative will go a long way.
I've never met an architect before, so maybe you can give me a plausible reason they'd need to know about closure.
Here's an entry from "looking":
What does “Here’s looking at you, kid” mean?
The phrase “Here’s looking at you, kid” is fondly remembered from Rick’s famous line from the film Casablanca. The phrase means that he/she is happy the other person is there, and that the other person looks attractive.
Or how about this one under "comic books & video games"?
Are comic books better than movies?
Comic books are typically better than movies due to a variety of reasons that include cost and time, the personal vision of the author and artists, as well as their experimental and bold nature. Comics also deeply care about their viewers as well as create an engaging and active process.
I just can't imagine how a designer would use this.
Those are the first examples you've given that don't make sense. All of the other ones were straight out of our reference books. II have no idea about the others. Is it open sourced info where people didn't get the memo on how to add to it?
Kingdom is the first one, actually. It's got a surprising amount of content, it's designed to be played over and over again continuously.
West and Shadows are both designed to be standalone games, you don't need to have played Kingdom to understand them, but they've got fun nods to players that have.
Thanks for this. It seems to have something for everyone, and the idea of punch lists sounds like what's sometimes missing to get from concerned / informed to actually effective.
Don't know if it's still around and can't remember the domain, but there was a site called World Radio Network that rebroadcast shortwave radio from around the world. Also great for language learning. The Polish Radio Service and Vatican Radio even had programs in Esperanto. A Finnish station had a Latin program, and of course so did Vatican Radio.
Ive loved radio garden for a few years now. Its so fun to just click a random city in the world and just listen to whatever they are doing. I remember randomly listening to a music station from some island above scotland for an entire day and came out of it with like 10 bands i had never heard of before that are now a part of my rotation.
It's still the same same as it was almost 30 years ago and is an example of both how websites used to look and also shows how much more functional things used to be when implemented well, inspite of modern aesthetic evolutions
Yeah I love that it had a certain amount of credibility when released, mainly from the professional look of the page. But actually the implementability has increased over time with tech.
Yet it hasn't really lead to a cybersex revolution yet. My prediction at the time that something like this would definitely materialize in the next 25 years.
I've been using it as my homepage. It allows you to search Google and other engines without AI summaries, it gives you your IP address and just enough weather info without being obtuse, it loads quickly, and has a timer, stopwatch, scratchpad and conversion table for imperial to metric ect.
Ayyy it is so awesome to see how much Australians are contributing to the cyber space, I have lost count of the amount of times I have seen Aussies being mentioned in just this past week
At the Nine Inch Nails concert in Lisbon, Portugal on February 12, 2007. a plain-looking USB flash drive was found in a bathroom stall. It was found to hold a single MP3 file with the title "My Violent Heart." In the ID3 tags of that file, a URL, anotherversionofthetruth.com, was found
That's cool as fuck. Never been a huge fan of their music, but I have grown to really respect Trent Reznor
It was pretty much the only way to find stuff online before search sites started indexing everything. You either knew the site directly or you followed links from other sites to get there.
I loved webrings!! I spent too much time on a Star Wars one. Learned how to meditate, but couldn't quite lift a pencil with my mind. Also learned way too many Ewok and Wookie family lineages that still take up too much space in my brain.
Ferry Halim made Orisinal, a website full of simple and relaxing Flash games that lives again now through various means, I think a combination of HTML5 conversion and Ruffle: https://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/
https://posthog.com/
Its best on desktop or in desktop mode
Its basically a recreation of a desktop with icons in the browser. Its super cool to just navigate around in.
Back in the late '90s there was a very early Flash-based website for a company called Eye4U. Looking at it today it's nothing special and even a little corny, but at the time it was mind-blowing. It was like nothing else on the web.
despite being promoted on reddit quite a few times, nobody knows about lemmy. early on when reddit was banning on the explicit subs, some of us fled to an international forum that looks reddit, its relatively unknown, but it was discusisng "illicit stuff" i think it was an obscure canadia/EU sites, so the US cant force it to close down, sadly most of the people dispersed from that community long time ago.
another one as of recently is because of reddit bans, people fled to a forum that discuss how to evade it, and how they were banned from reddit.
It's a neat piece of satire. Turning the humans into AI. There's this saying that AI really means “actually Indians”. As many AI companies have been caught using humans, mostly outsourced offshore daily workers, to cover up for incomplete AI models, and agentic AI. So as to hide the fact that the tech is not actually all the way to what's promised, and actually depends on human labor to keep up the façade of advanced technology. This webpage drops the pretense altogether, to mock the state of the LLM bubble.
I wouldn't say unknown, as it's a staple of the shortwave and ham radio communities, but websdr.org is a place where people stream software defined radio feeds from around the world. It's not like a traditional internet radio station where you have an audio stream of a single station. You pick an SDR server hosted by a volunteer, and then you're given a frequency input, modulation selection, and waterfall display as though you were listening to an actual shortwave radio.
I know it's well-known because Eastern European stations were swamped during Russia's initial invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
This page on how mechanical watches work with really snappy interactive 3d bits that let you "feel" how the parts do their thing. And the dozens of other articles on other topics also on the site
It had some amazing things going on for a long while. I heard a lot of it fell apart around 2014 when the gold finally hit true hyperinflation and they tried to introduce a 3rd currency.
I honestly don't know. I always used the website as a start site. But not for a year or two. And whenever i looked at it it was like one or two. Which kinda made it even funnier
(don't mind the URL, I don't know, I can't tell you why, but it leads to the game)
PARAPLÜSCH! The psyciatry ward for abused cuddlytoys!! It's such a sweet and at the same time disturbing game (I recommend playing on PC, not smartphone)
(You can select a number of languages, though it is originally german)
If you're a Tool fan, there is 20+ years of blog about them, he recently "stopped updating" it, but it's a treasure trove of history on the band: https://toolshed.down.net/
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler
I don't recommend it now because it feels like a bunch of genAI stories are getting posted without seemingly any push back, but I used to enjoy finding some high quality stories on a site called ARArchive ( ararchive.com ).
The current modern site is a boring blue and white website. Replace the "www" with "old" and you get their old site/forums which was so much more lovely looking. Also, because of the forum type part of the site, alongside other features, was a bigger website.
The site itself, modern and old, contain stories centered around physical and/or mental age regression. Stories like "Boomerang" from OldStories, which is like a 4 chapter story about the misfortunes of a high schooler who gets physically regressed to 2 years old in a scenario where one day all 14-18 year olds in North America suddenly regress between 2-4 years old.
Or another favorite of mine: The Family by sumner. Follows a journalist who gets lost and has cat troubles but ends up in a town with a dark secret. Won't spoil anything past the description and very beginning of the story. 5 chapters and an interesting enough premise once you read more into it.
:::
Its an LLM trained exclusively on the Epstein files, 9/11 archive and publicly available FBI documents. Every answer comes with like 10-20 Epstein filer links to prove or disprove a theory. Their free option is shit, but for like 20$ a month, it helps me make sense of all the videos out there.
I wanted to check who worked on what World of Warcraft game, so I've vibe-coded this together, over the years. Not the data though - I didn't want hallucinated data.
Anyway, turns that one person worked on all the games: Glenn Stafford - the absolutely musical legend!
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cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 170 pts · 111d
Floor 796 — https://floor796.com/
cb900f_bodhi@fedinsfw.app · 21 pts · 111d
I'm old. I was an adult when the internet first started. And this is the coolest thing I've ever seen online. Thanks for sharing!
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 111d
You're welcome! I was an older teenager when the worldwide web started taking off in '94 — is that what you mean? A lot of people associate the Internet and the WWW, but IIRC the first email was sent in the 1960s. I'm getting old. Sometimes I feel old, sometimes I feel young. As a gamer, I try to stay current with tech, but while I like some modern games, I'm having so much fun catching up on 360/PS3 and 3ds era gaming. Like my wife got Animal Crossing for the Switch, but I'm enjoying the 3ds version more. It's a bit older, a bit uglier, my girl has hair like Claire/Molly Ringwald in Breakfast Club, but it's okay, I'll unlock the hair salon eventually.
9point6@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 111d
This is triggering habbo hotel nostalgia for me
bright_side_@piefed.world · 8 pts · 111d
right? had the same thought immediately. the whole page is art.
blueamigafan@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 111d
I didn't recognise the name but when I clicked I recognised it instantly, I'm astounded but happy this is still around
muxika@piefed.muxika.org · 12 pts · 111d
This wins the internet for today.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 111d
Did you throw popcorn into the black hole?
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 111d
Of course!
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 6 pts · 111d
Haha, that's so bizarre but wild and fascinating.
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 110d
Noooo don’t look at the NSFW camera in the shower!!!
DevastatedBungHole@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 111d
Book marked 😘
shadshack@feddit.online · 3 pts · 111d
Thanks for this. That site's dope.
theherk@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 111d
Yo that techno Viking is spot on. Nailed the point and the moves.
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social · 2 pts · 111d
Found Marvin, inspector gadget, r2d2, Wall-e, and many more.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 111d
I think there's a guide. I follow them on Telegram and they post whenever they add something (with a direct link to the coordinates). Lately he's been working on the flea market area with Link and Zelda.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 111d
Neat!
chunes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 111d
Thanks for reminding me about this -- such an astounding work of art.
vanitasvanitatum@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 110d
Poor Gimli…
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 111d
Found Waldo!!
iByteABit@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 109d
this is so cool
Agent641@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 109d
This is amazing!
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 92 pts · 111d
Other than everyone reading this, nobody really knows about Lemmy.
dhruv3006@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 111d
lemmy is really really cool.
U7826391786239@piefed.zip · 10 pts · 111d
X@piefed.world · 5 pts · 111d
piefed? never heard of it
Stefan_S_from_H@piefed.zip · 6 pts · 111d
It's just a PieFed clone. 🙃
theherk@lemmy.world · 86 pts · 111d
I’m not saying it’s the coolest, but I made a thing to scratch an itch that others may enjoy. I modeled it after something I found a few decades back that I never found again.
https://rhuidean.studio/
Forgot to mention it is available as a tui too.
cargo install rhuidean-studioPostmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 111d
I have absolutely no idea what this is or what it's supposed to do but it's incredibly fun to poke at
MrLLM@ani.social · 8 pts · 111d
Kinda reminds me of strudel repl
It’s like a completely different way to create music (even though, idk if OP intended it to be for that)
determinist@kbin.earth · 9 pts · 111d
yo, i know nothing about music but this is cool as fuck
anon6789@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 111d
That was fun! 😁
Perfect 4th with linear velocity starts to cascade before they all reconverge with a big bleep. That was my favorite.
theherk@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 111d
The craving of that big bleep is what got me to finally do this. It is so satisfying when they all converge. With multiple subdivisions and the convergence lines on, it is even better.
anon6789@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 111d
Oh that is cool! It makes stars and trippy fan blade patterns. It's neat you can share the link like that to share the patterns too.
It's like a kaleidoscope that also works for the ears. 😁
X@piefed.world · 6 pts · 111d
Okay that’s ridiculously cool lol
Hasherm0n@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 111d
This is fun!
ShotDonkey@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 111d
Amazing, thanks 🙏🙏🙏
iByteABit@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 109d
nice! gave you a star on gh :)
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 110d
That's so cool! The name is a nice reference, too
m_f@discuss.online · 67 pts · 111d
https://windows93.net/ - Some mad lad implemented a custom parody version of Windows 95 that has a bunch of working applications and emulators. Also, check out !internetisawesome@sh.itjust.works for a lot of similar sites.
FluorideMind@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 111d
This used to have an integrated Myspace clone. It was so cool and I miss it dearly. My page
Clbull@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 111d
I have loads of questions, like why does this exist, and why is there a fucking karaoke player with licensed tracks on this parody?
Psythik@lemmy.world · -12 pts · 111d
Did you not see the "that no one knows about" part of the question?
Usernamealreadyinuse@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 111d
I didn't know this one...
FrederikNJS@piefed.zip · 58 pts · 111d
https://www.nandgame.com/
Learn how a computer works by building your own from scratch.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 111d
Saving this for later! As someone who knows more about software than hardware, this sounds interesting!
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 110d
I tried it but the game is kind of confusing cause it uses relays instead of transistors. I think it's more frustrating and would only discourage potential learners.
A better way to get a solid grasp on low-level hardware logic is to just build an eight-bit breadboard computer. Here's a tutorial: https://eater.net/8bit
I'm working on it now. I've only done the first module so far and I've already learned so much.
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 109d
That is only the very first level. Afterwards it switches to gates.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 109d
Good to know. I think once I learn how the relays compare to transistors, I can probably figure out the first level.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 111d
Considerably more user friendly than Escape from Robotropolis was for me.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 110d
I just tried it and it's so much harder to understand than just playing around with transistors on a breadboard.
Like, I can easily make a nand gate with a couple NPNs and a PNP. But I couldn't figure out what they wanted me to do with those relays, so I didn't get past the first task.
FrederikNJS@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 110d
Sure, building your own breadboard computer is much better than playing with some website... However transistors and relays are kind of similar in function, they both gate whether current flows.
If you are already familiar with transistors, then I agree those are a simpler introduction, however most regular people don't know anything about a transistor, and they seem a little bit magical.
A relay however can be grasped by most people just by looking at it in operation. Magnet attracts... Electromagnets only attracts when powered... wire doesn't conduct when not connected... Wire does conduct when connected... Electromagnet can pull or push wire to either connect or disconnect...
If you want the solution for the first task (building a nand gate with relays), you can see my solution here: ::: spoiler spoiler
:::
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 109d
Okay, without reading the spoiler:
Does the inductor lead function like the switch on the transistor?
And the two relays: default (on) and default (off): is default (on) like the PNP transistor and default (off) like the NPN?
I think with those two bits of information, I can figure it out. But last night I didn't have the patience to figure it out by trial and error.
FrederikNJS@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 109d
You got it 😉
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 109d
I went through all the units. They were interesting, and I definitely learned a bunch. I probably won't remember it all right away, but I at least have a better idea of the overall picture. It'll be reinforced as I continue my breadboard project, but also supports my theoretical understanding of that project. So I'd say it was worth it.
Imagine my surprise when I got to the end and realized there are multiple paths that branch off from there into new units 😱
It seems the learning shall continue...
FrederikNJS@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 109d
Good luck with all the learning 😉 sounds like a fun journey!
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 111d
https://www.gutenberg.org/
It's been around for half a century and nobody knows about it. It's like a world wonder, a modern Library of Alexandria.
rethnor@lemmy.zip · 31 pts · 111d
Not sure how known these are, but it's similar.
https://librivox.org/ public domain audio books
https://freemusicarchive.org/ free access to open licensed music
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 109d
Librevox! My love!
NostraDavid@programming.dev · 12 pts · 111d
IIRC, they'll add new books every year, as older books slowly become Public Domain, so classics like a bunch of Tarzan books (though not all of them, yet) have become available.
Also, for those that don't get the name: Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press that was much better than existing presses (and pretty new to Europe).
rodneylives@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 110d
Project Gutenberg predates the internet. I still remember how their goal was to give away one trillion ebooks.
Project Gutenberg is still around, so I won't say this is an example of the internet getting worse. But I loathe how it's come to focus on damnable social media like there's nothing else of worth out there. Social media, among other things, filled the air with noise that starved many worthwhile projects of attention.
redsand@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 109d
Amd you can download them all as a ZIM
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 110d
There is a modern Library of Alexandria, just fyi, it's pretty fucking dope.
mlg@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 111d
https://www.thistothat.com/
To figure out what type of adhesive/glue you need to attach x material to y material
moakley@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 110d
dimensions.com
It's the weirdest shit I've ever seen. Before I get into it, I want to point out that I've been using this site for years, since before LLMs were a thing, so this is definitely not generated by AI.
It's just like, generic outline drawings of things. Objects, people, places, everything.
So sometimes I like to draw, and I need a model to work from for the pose and the proportions, and this site has a ton of them. Child kicking a ball? Yes. Adult man sitting on a bench? Several options to choose from. Woman carrying a box? Three different poses.
Pointing, pushing, protesting, thinking, vacuuming, raising one's hand to summon a waiter in a restaurant, it's all there.
I'm sure there's some kind of industrial use for it, like for diagrams or blueprints or something, but then we get to the descriptions. Like on the page for people carrying boxes, it says:
Then there's always three questions, which they provide answers to. For carrying, those questions are:
Why? Whom is that for?
Under the pictures of elderly people it asks things like "What are the best exercises for maintaining mobility in seniors?" and "How can seniors adapt their homes for safety and accessibility?"
Is this for dolphins? Did a dolphin learn to read English, and they want to understand human society?
I'm struggling to find the weirdest examples, because honestly it's the breadth as well as the depth. Someone clearly put a ton of work into this, and I love it, but I don't understand it.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 110d
Alright. I figured it out. This is for aliens trying to understand us.
moakley@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 110d
But they'd have written it in alienese. That's why I say dolphins - without a formal writing system of their own, they'd naturally default to a human one for the purpose of studying humans.
just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 110d
What if they wrote it in english cuz ofcourse aliens have english to alienese translator.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 109d
I think it's for n-dimensional beings trying to understand lower dimensional existence
tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 110d
Super cool! Clickable URL: https://www.dimensions.com/
moakley@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 109d
Was my link not clickable? It looks clickable on my browser.
tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 109d
It's not on the app I'm using, I assume the browser just generates a link for every URL-like string while the app doesn't necessarily
eah@programming.dev · 3 pts · 109d
Hide this from Skynet.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 110d
This is for architects and designers. There used to be books that had these dimensions and stats that were ungodly expensive at the time.
moakley@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 107d
Why do architects and designers need a description of what carrying boxes is? Why do they need tips on senior mobility? It's weird.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 107d
Say you work for a firm that mostly does office buildings. This firm hasn't done a building with a mail room in decades, but now has a project with a mail room for whatever reason. There is no one at the office that would know this info, so you need to look it up. For safety and liability, you have to design for ergonomics. You use the 2d drawings for your details and elevations that explain it.
Similar, the firm does hospitals, but was asked to do a senior living home. There are very specific requirements for elderly living. There are classes on this alone for architects and designers. If you are an older designer, you might need to know new info and studies out there. You use these for elevations so you can design heights and materials and finishes for the elderly. For example, if all of the colors are the same for the hallway, the elderly won't be able to distinguish between the floor and the walls.
It sounds like you've never known an architect or designer before. There is a lot of information going on in their heads, especially for healthcare or anywhere there needs to be repetitive work done. Architects and designers are liable for what goes into their drawings. They're contracts.
moakley@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 107d
Fair enough. Those were bad examples. Explain this one, under "thinking":
I've never met an architect before, so maybe you can give me a plausible reason they'd need to know about closure.
Here's an entry from "looking":
Or how about this one under "comic books & video games"?
I just can't imagine how a designer would use this.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 107d
Those are the first examples you've given that don't make sense. All of the other ones were straight out of our reference books. II have no idea about the others. Is it open sourced info where people didn't get the memo on how to add to it?
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 109d
Are these downloadable as stp files?
moakley@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 109d
I think they're only 2D.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 109d
Ah yes I see that now.
U7826391786239@piefed.zip · 37 pts · 111d
X@piefed.world · 5 pts · 111d
It’s always fun to scroll, scroll, scroll, and then tap the light speed button in the lower right corner.
lath@piefed.social · 28 pts · 111d
https://www.nooooooooooooooooooooooooo.com/
charonn0@startrek.website · 24 pts · 111d
https://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
A free text-based RPG browser game with a unique sense of absurdist humor.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 110d
Came here to post this, it's probably my favorite game
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus · 1 pts · 110d
cool, i love the other 2 "Loathing" games, but didn't know there was a third one and it's free too!
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 110d
Kingdom is the first one, actually. It's got a surprising amount of content, it's designed to be played over and over again continuously.
West and Shadows are both designed to be standalone games, you don't need to have played Kingdom to understand them, but they've got fun nods to players that have.
monotremata@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 110d
Don't forget Mr. Card Game!
(it's actually pretty okay to forget Mr. Card Game, it's not great)
desra@slrpnk.net · 24 pts · 111d
this is my favorite regeneration.org a bunch of issues our world faces with all sorts of different solutions
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 110d
Thanks for this. It seems to have something for everyone, and the idea of punch lists sounds like what's sometimes missing to get from concerned / informed to actually effective.
pirate2377@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 111d
http.cat
python@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 111d
Been working in software engineering for 5 years now, I still look this site up basically any time I don't remember what an http code means
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 110d
Ooh, I used to use
httpstat.usfor this, but they sold the domainLetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 111d
My new favorite 405 image
gramie@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 110d
Streaming radio from around the world: Radio Garden
Best language lessons short of full immersion: Language Transfer
early_riser@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 109d
Don't know if it's still around and can't remember the domain, but there was a site called World Radio Network that rebroadcast shortwave radio from around the world. Also great for language learning. The Polish Radio Service and Vatican Radio even had programs in Esperanto. A Finnish station had a Latin program, and of course so did Vatican Radio.
Shindo66@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 109d
Ive loved radio garden for a few years now. Its so fun to just click a random city in the world and just listen to whatever they are doing. I remember randomly listening to a music station from some island above scotland for an entire day and came out of it with like 10 bands i had never heard of before that are now a part of my rotation.
Jarix@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 111d
www.webtender.com
It's still the same same as it was almost 30 years ago and is an example of both how websites used to look and also shows how much more functional things used to be when implemented well, inspite of modern aesthetic evolutions
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 111d
http://www.easylife.org/fufme/
ace_garp@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 111d
Lol. I haven't seen this since '98.
AFAIK there was a company producing a similar real product about 5-10 years ago.
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 111d
Yeah I love that it had a certain amount of credibility when released, mainly from the professional look of the page. But actually the implementability has increased over time with tech.
Yet it hasn't really lead to a cybersex revolution yet. My prediction at the time that something like this would definitely materialize in the next 25 years.
night_petal@piefed.social · 8 pts · 111d
What do you mean? Teledildonics is very real. There's a lot of integration with SecondLife, but I certainly wouldn't know anything about that.
reksas@sopuli.xyz · 17 pts · 109d
https://p2r3.github.io/convert/
convert anything to anything, make excel file into pdf, 3d print the bee movie. no more rules
hansolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 109d
Finally, I can 3D print a PDF of an insurance form!
kmcrhsm@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 109d
ikr !!! some youtuber guy made it and made a video too
Comrade_Squid@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 110d
http://192.186.0.168/
Agent641@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 109d
mediaplate.au
I've been using it as my homepage. It allows you to search Google and other engines without AI summaries, it gives you your IP address and just enough weather info without being obtuse, it loads quickly, and has a timer, stopwatch, scratchpad and conversion table for imperial to metric ect.
S4m_S3p1l@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 109d
Ayyy it is so awesome to see how much Australians are contributing to the cyber space, I have lost count of the amount of times I have seen Aussies being mentioned in just this past week
muxika@piefed.muxika.org · 11 pts · 111d
Another Version of the Truth ARG by Nine Inch Nails
It's extremely fucking relevant right now.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 110d
That's cool as fuck. Never been a huge fan of their music, but I have grown to really respect Trent Reznor
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 109d
https://wiby.me/surprise/
It takes you to a random web 1.0 site that has somehow survived all this time.
And it led me to this site, a public voice-mail:
https://afterthebeep.tel/#3EXp
Shindo66@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 109d
This is amazing, it took me to a US battleship website and then enrons website
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 109d
A good chuck of these sites are autism special interest sites.
Hey, would you like every single schematic of Chernobyl with a through explanation? Sites like that are floating around in there.
Shindo66@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 109d
And then a website about proving the existence of sea monsters...
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 109d
Does Lemmy count?
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 109d
I mean not in this thread, but generally yeah
Zetta@mander.xyz · 10 pts · 111d
http://r.stardata.us/
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 110d
omnicalculator.com
If they are missing one, I haven't needed it yet.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 111d
Webrings:
https://baccyflap.com/rsp/
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 111d
So it's like co-op web indexing?
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 111d
It was pretty much the only way to find stuff online before search sites started indexing everything. You either knew the site directly or you followed links from other sites to get there.
soar160@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 111d
I loved webrings!! I spent too much time on a Star Wars one. Learned how to meditate, but couldn't quite lift a pencil with my mind. Also learned way too many Ewok and Wookie family lineages that still take up too much space in my brain.
rodneylives@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 110d
Ferry Halim made Orisinal, a website full of simple and relaxing Flash games that lives again now through various means, I think a combination of HTML5 conversion and Ruffle: https://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/
CordialCephalopod@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 110d
Duuuuuuude, I haven't seen these games in around two decades. Thanks for posting this!
Ageroth@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 110d
Oh shit I used to play these games all the time in school, thanks for the hit of nostalgia
core@leminal.space · 8 pts · 110d
https://posthog.com/ Its best on desktop or in desktop mode Its basically a recreation of a desktop with icons in the browser. Its super cool to just navigate around in.
UninvestedCuriosity@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 110d
https://internet.nl/ that tests a bunch of security related things and gives your server a score. Great for checking a few more boxes.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 111d
https://deathgenerator.com/
HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 110d
Cool! Thanks for sharing
rodneylives@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 111d
The venerable and unexplainable Superbad: https://www.superbad.com/
Ancient wiki-style writing site Everything, older than Wikipedia: https://everything2.com/
The "Earth Edition" of the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: https://h2g2.com/
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org · 6 pts · 110d
turnmeintoagirl.com is a greatwebsite for all those transfems that still dont know they are trans.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 109d
Oh fuck oh shit I clicked it as a joke but it's legit how do I go back my knob and bollocks went inside and won't come back out!
Jackcooper@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 111d
Lemmy
rodneylives@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 110d
On of Eyezmaze made the Grow games, which are currently still playable here: https://www.eyezmaze.com/
Davel23@fedia.io · 6 pts · 111d
Back in the late '90s there was a very early Flash-based website for a company called Eye4U. Looking at it today it's nothing special and even a little corny, but at the time it was mind-blowing. It was like nothing else on the web.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOUw2tF7agM
ace_garp@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 111d
http://levitated.net/
It was a bunch of GPL interactive Flash Animations.
Very creative/organic for the time. Pre DotCom crash.
bright_side_@piefed.world · 6 pts · 111d
not the coolest but makes me laugh https://eelslap.com/
prti@szmer.info · 2 pts · 111d
I needed it again
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 110d
despite being promoted on reddit quite a few times, nobody knows about lemmy. early on when reddit was banning on the explicit subs, some of us fled to an international forum that looks reddit, its relatively unknown, but it was discusisng "illicit stuff" i think it was an obscure canadia/EU sites, so the US cant force it to close down, sadly most of the people dispersed from that community long time ago.
another one as of recently is because of reddit bans, people fled to a forum that discuss how to evade it, and how they were banned from reddit.
Sightline@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 109d
voat?
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 110d
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/20018103
Probably the same response I put when someone else asked this 2 weeks ago:
katze@lemmy.4d2.org · 3 pts · 110d
I don't get it.
dustyData@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 110d
It's a neat piece of satire. Turning the humans into AI. There's this saying that AI really means “actually Indians”. As many AI companies have been caught using humans, mostly outsourced offshore daily workers, to cover up for incomplete AI models, and agentic AI. So as to hide the fact that the tech is not actually all the way to what's promised, and actually depends on human labor to keep up the façade of advanced technology. This webpage drops the pretense altogether, to mock the state of the LLM bubble.
katze@lemmy.4d2.org · 2 pts · 110d
Thank you!
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 109d
Also, it's just funny to LARP as AI
fum@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 109d
According to the people in my office nobody knows about archive.org and I think it's pretty cool.
Bilbo@hobbit.world · 5 pts · 110d
http://mymindblewup.com/ for all your cow stacking needs.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 110d
cool websites !coolwebsites@lemmy.ca has quite a lot of them
prti@szmer.info · 4 pts · 111d
In case any of you needed it today.
http://eelslap.com/
ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 111d
Never seen b3ta mentioned in the wild. The Question Of The Week archive has some belters
over_clox@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 111d
https://acko.net/
Hackery, Math & Design - Steven Wittens
childOfMagenta@jlai.lu · 4 pts · 109d
Every noise at once - https://everynoise.com/
Wikipedia article.
It's still usable, and the Spotify playlists are still there. If you like exploring music styles, this is for you. Warning, time will disappear.
early_riser@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 109d
I wouldn't say unknown, as it's a staple of the shortwave and ham radio communities, but websdr.org is a place where people stream software defined radio feeds from around the world. It's not like a traditional internet radio station where you have an audio stream of a single station. You pick an SDR server hosted by a volunteer, and then you're given a frequency input, modulation selection, and waterfall display as though you were listening to an actual shortwave radio.
I know it's well-known because Eastern European stations were swamped during Russia's initial invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
noxypaws@pawb.social · 4 pts · 109d
This page on how mechanical watches work with really snappy interactive 3d bits that let you "feel" how the parts do their thing. And the dozens of other articles on other topics also on the site
https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
Tiral@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 111d
If I tell you, then people will know about it, which is why I like it.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 111d
So tell us, then, so that you can like it even more!
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 111d
gaiaonline.com is still up and running. That was my jam way back in 2011.
early_riser@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 109d
I was on there in 2003 I think. Was on the forums a fair bit but haven't been back since 2005 or so.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 108d
It had some amazing things going on for a long while. I heard a lot of it fell apart around 2014 when the gold finally hit true hyperinflation and they tried to introduce a 3rd currency.
Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 111d
localhost:8000
FatVegan@leminal.space · 4 pts · 109d
https://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 109d
Seems like they don't update often? It's still showing the Artemis II crew.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 1 pts · 109d
I honestly don't know. I always used the website as a start site. But not for a year or two. And whenever i looked at it it was like one or two. Which kinda made it even funnier
Kazel@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 109d
192.168.0.4
Enkrod@feddit.org · 3 pts · 109d
https://www.parapluesch.de/whiskystore/test.htm
(don't mind the URL, I don't know, I can't tell you why, but it leads to the game)
PARAPLÜSCH! The psyciatry ward for abused cuddlytoys!! It's such a sweet and at the same time disturbing game (I recommend playing on PC, not smartphone)
(You can select a number of languages, though it is originally german)
waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 109d
This one's is pretty fun for breaking news when you want all the sources
beholder.news
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 111d
tane.us
wieson@feddit.org · 3 pts · 109d
edupad.ch
Write collaboratively without account or registration. Just start a pad and send the link to your collaborators.
greasewizard@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 109d
This is actually an instance of etherpad, which you can self host. Still cool
rodneylives@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 111d
26-year-old image blog Everlasting Blort: https://blort.meepzorp.com/
AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 109d
https://donandmikewebsite.com/
Paint Your Bald Spot
...back when the radio was cool
klymilark@walsh.fallcounty.omg.lol · 2 pts · 111d
@dhruv3006 koalastothemax.com/
It's basically a koala scratch-off, neat site!
uenticx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 109d
If you're a Tool fan, there is 20+ years of blog about them, he recently "stopped updating" it, but it's a treasure trove of history on the band: https://toolshed.down.net/
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 109d
Best I can do is https://piclog.blue/
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 111d
http://www.themostamazingwebsiteontheinternet.com/
passenger@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 97d
https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_3.html?m=1
CRPG addict, writes reviews / let's plays for CRPGs. A great resource to learn about lesser known games and it's fun to read.
Especially recommend the spirit of excalibur review where they show off their knowledge on Arthurian legends
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 109d
https://www.merzo.net/main.htm
A Museum of Speculative Fiction inspired Spaceships
Sadly it is no longer being updated.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 111d
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 110d
https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
17776 is a work of speculative fiction that will make your soul ache, if you've still got one.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 111d
Weird Stuff/Age Regression
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler I don't recommend it now because it feels like a bunch of genAI stories are getting posted without seemingly any push back, but I used to enjoy finding some high quality stories on a site called ARArchive ( ararchive.com ).
The current modern site is a boring blue and white website. Replace the "www" with "old" and you get their old site/forums which was so much more lovely looking. Also, because of the forum type part of the site, alongside other features, was a bigger website.
The site itself, modern and old, contain stories centered around physical and/or mental age regression. Stories like "Boomerang" from OldStories, which is like a 4 chapter story about the misfortunes of a high schooler who gets physically regressed to 2 years old in a scenario where one day all 14-18 year olds in North America suddenly regress between 2-4 years old.
Or another favorite of mine: The Family by sumner. Follows a journalist who gets lost and has cat troubles but ends up in a town with a dark secret. Won't spoil anything past the description and very beginning of the story. 5 chapters and an interesting enough premise once you read more into it. :::
BogeyTheSwear@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 109d
https://thewebb.io/
Its an LLM trained exclusively on the Epstein files, 9/11 archive and publicly available FBI documents. Every answer comes with like 10-20 Epstein filer links to prove or disprove a theory. Their free option is shit, but for like 20$ a month, it helps me make sense of all the videos out there.
hoagecko@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 110d
Japanese Recordstore Database "Recoya"
https://recoya.net/en/
Browse Items · Inquire Capitalism: A Database of Company Archives
Japanese Meme Music Culture "Oto-mad" Database
https://otodb.net/
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 111d
rotten.com
NostraDavid@programming.dev · 0 pts · 111d
NostraDavid's Warcraft Credit Visualizer
I wanted to check who worked on what World of Warcraft game, so I've vibe-coded this together, over the years. Not the data though - I didn't want hallucinated data.
Anyway, turns that one person worked on all the games: Glenn Stafford - the absolutely musical legend!
nixukty@lemmy.zip · -18 pts · 111d
https://google.com/, search for almost ANY website with just a keyword!
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 110d
I gave it a try, and the first page was sponsored posts, then there was a AI summary
Looks like a scam site, wouldn't trust it
everett@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 111d
Sounds too complicated for just about anyone.
newton@feddit.online · -20 pts · 111d
I can't make it public—then everyone will know about it. The server is small and can't handle the influx of requests.
Gloomy@mander.xyz · 18 pts · 111d
This is Lemmy, mate. There will be 10 people looking at it max
Doom@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 111d
Now, now there are a dozen of us. A dozen!
finalarbiter@piefed.social · 17 pts · 111d
Then why bother commenting?
bright_side_@piefed.world · 2 pts · 111d
now I'm curious. would a pm be okay?
newton@feddit.online · -15 pts · 111d
Nope
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 111d
Then screw you
newton@feddit.online · -4 pts · 111d
Dilligas
MrRazamataz@lemmy.razbot.xyz · 2 pts · 110d
why did you comment then?