wtf
It’s been running since 1999
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
You can do anything at zombo.com
Whaat?! 🤣🤣 So random!
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’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”
Blogs. It’s amazing how many gems and great content are buried in countless blogs, maintained or abandoned.
Usenet and IRC. Roam the realms of your ancestors.
It has always been about the personal, non-blog (or not-just-blog) websites.
well, that and horserentals.com
I’m not sure what I expected from horserentals.com…
I feel like this is a parody but having seen the early days of the world wide web I know I’m mistaken.
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.
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.
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.
And here’s an example page about a moth with mind control powers
I’ve spent so much time reading and listening to SCPs. Love that shit
TV Tropes
Wow I forgot about that
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
I tried curating some on a sublemmy
if that doesn’t work it’s !coolwebsites@lemmy.ca C:
I tried curating some on a
sublemmycommunitySemantics, I know, but important to learn a new platform’s terminology.
An old favourite of mine http://muffinfilms.com/
I didn’t know this was the same person who made the Making Fiends animations until I clicked on the giftshop link.
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/