After clicking on the surprise me button 20 times or so, a few things popped out to me.
1) I remember this time, we had delightfully nerdy hobbies back then. Little side projects and no one really cared how it was presented. It reminds me of my Southpark website that I maintained with each episode a summary and some screenshots. I spend quite a bit time on it, with my little counter hitting 1,000 views at some point(maybe I was half of that).
2) the web was not created for mobile. Everything is pretty awful, and not accessible. Reader view is not functional and it hinders absorbing the knowledge from these pages.
But I do feel there was a larger diversity, maybe I’m too locked in to social media and Google.
While I do not dream of this man, I found it fascinating. I don’t know how I’d come across this now. Even more interesting to me is what happens when you get rid of the oldsite part of the url… the new site is so much worse! General blog like template, theoretically more mobile friendly except way less visually attractive and interesting.
Not sure about the technique wiby uses to filter garbage, but I could imagine a search index that contains only HTML4 pages could be quite resourceful.
One of my favorite finds through Wiby is: https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/test/index.html which I found through this article specifically: https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/test/articles/future-proof...
One just for news: https://littleberg.com
After clicking on the surprise me button 20 times or so, a few things popped out to me.
1) I remember this time, we had delightfully nerdy hobbies back then. Little side projects and no one really cared how it was presented. It reminds me of my Southpark website that I maintained with each episode a summary and some screenshots. I spend quite a bit time on it, with my little counter hitting 1,000 views at some point(maybe I was half of that).
2) the web was not created for mobile. Everything is pretty awful, and not accessible. Reader view is not functional and it hinders absorbing the knowledge from these pages.
But I do feel there was a larger diversity, maybe I’m too locked in to social media and Google.
I found this: https://www.thisman.org/oldsite/
While I do not dream of this man, I found it fascinating. I don’t know how I’d come across this now. Even more interesting to me is what happens when you get rid of the oldsite part of the url… the new site is so much worse! General blog like template, theoretically more mobile friendly except way less visually attractive and interesting.
Not sure about the technique wiby uses to filter garbage, but I could imagine a search index that contains only HTML4 pages could be quite resourceful.
Really cool project! How did you get rid of all the noise? (SEO optimized garbage, Ads masquerading as blogs etc)
Not hundred percent sure but it looks like pages are checked manually to some extent.
What a superb well of knowledge unlike modern day flashy, bland, advert filled websites.
I can happily read this all day long.
http://www.orwelltoday.com/
My favourite.
http://www.orwelltoday.com/drugpeace.shtml
http://toastytech.com/evil/billwanted.html