TIL Timecube is no longer up. That was my go to site for what the internet used to be like.
this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2024
178 points (97.3% liked)
Technology
58833 readers
4863 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
aw man that site was like Dr Bronner's took some digital mushrooms
They are trying to be 90s, but I love it. I thought they had a site counter at some point, but maybe I am misremembering and it was just the guest book.
https://everything2.com/node/e2node/An%20Introduction%20to%20Everything2 - massively interlinked information site
https://www.dieselsweeties.com/ - robots and people comic
https://realultimatepower.net/ - ninjas
Has Real Ultimate Power actually changed at all/added new content? I was reading that in elementary.
Nope, exact same html.
load more comments
(1 replies)
gradients, animated GIFs, "best browsed on", and a frame once you click enter. Only thing it's missing is an index page.
frame
Now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time.
Story time: In the super old days, I want to say 1996? 1997? I wrote a four or five line HTML that would split the screen into two horizontal frames, then split those each into vertical frames, then those horizontal -- ad infinitum.
I don't think there were any browsers that didn't fail that test. I'm sure I only checked IE3 or IE4 and Netscape. One of them locked the computer up and had to be killed via "close program." The other one locked the machine up and it became completely unresponsive, needing to be hard booted.
load more comments
(1 replies)
I get most of the stills for my Star Trek memes from trekcore.com which has a pretty old-web feel to it.
load more comments
(1 replies)
My healthcare services websites. Their website and mobile app require separate logins. The website logs in then redirects to a completely different website.
They have a tax-free “store” that feels like a completely different website.
Everything is laid out using what seems like the idea of middle management and not modern design philosophy.
TreasuryDirect also feels classic. If you're not familiar, it's a US government website to buy and sell certain types of treasury bonds. Some great features:
- an image so you know you didn't typo your username (haven't seen that in well over a decade)
- clicking a link is a new page, and clicking back breaks stuff and makes you login again
- until recently, you couldn't paste in the password field
It does do some modern-ish things with page layout, but not that modern, like maybe early 2000s modern. But it's perennially stuck about 20 years in the past.
No JavaScript sites on onionland
Sites that have old forums. There aren't many anymore, but ones I've seen that have been very helpful of late include car sites, a timeshare forum, and the Fantasy Grounds forum (my virtual tabletop of choice).
I'm sure there are others out there, but it's definitely more rare than it used to be. Is Something Awful still around?
I'm on a couple forum sites still (both phpbb I think). I still read fark.com but rarely if ever comment anymore.
telnet bbs.lunduke.com
Oh man, fuck Bryan Lunduke. He aged like milk.
neopets.com/neoboards/boardlist.phtml?board=55
fixed
They both look the same on mobile. 🤷🏻♀️
most private trackers
Wimp.com
Irregular webcomics
Dinosaur comics (qwantz.com)
Hubski