I want to see if I can get a spark of the “old internet” back by making a starting page for myself with all kinds of cool websites. But not sure where to start because Google obviously will not work for this.
So… what are some of your favourite websites?
Got a few:
https://everynoise.com/ You can find A LOT of music genres here. Genres next to eachother resemble one another. Figure out what you like, and what genres are close to it. Clicking on the >> will take you to artists in this genre, or search for artists in the upper right corner and see what genre they fall under.
https://clickclickclick.click This one is about privacy, see what a browser can track. If you don’t know much about pixeltracking, this one is a fun way to learn (and a little creepy hehe)
https://suno.com/create Create your own songs with an AI, just throw in lyrics, a genre, and you are done. A fun way to troll a friend by throwing in an old conversation
https://darknetdiaries.com/ Haven’t looked into this one myself, but these are true stories on the darknet, recommended by a friend of mine.
Darknet Diaries is a podcast, rather than just a website. It’s not all about the darknet, he does tons of stories about internet security and penetration testing.
I have listened to every single episode. It’s EXCELLENT.
Thanks for the links, they’re interesting.
Came here to post EveryNoise. Absolutely incredible site that just fucking WORKS. Can’t believe I went as long as I did without knowing about it.
It’s interesting. Some seriously fragmented genre names. Not sure I agree with many of them, but I always like new music discovery tools.
Clickclickclick is such a great eye opener. And I’ll definately will spend some time searching artists I like on Everynoise. Other two also added to my bookmarks for later viewing. Great links!
Enjoy!
Here’s one of my long time favorites:
What a treasure trove! At first glance I love all the ASCII art. But some of the texts feel like you’re browsing some old Reddit/4chan posts. Will take me a while to get through all the gems!
I am really happy that you appreciate it. There is so much to explore there, be careful because it’s easy to lose a lot of time browsing the files. Lol
I love reading about all the old school hacking and shit. There’s some genuine ‘anarchist cookbook’ type of stuff in there. Probably don’t try any of that shit, but it’s fun to read about none the less.
Probably don’t try any of that shit,
Now you tell me, I just spent the last couple hours trying to get free CompuServe access.
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Vimm’s Lair
Z2
A bunch of webcomics
Whoa, Vimm’s lair is amazing! I especially like that they also have scans of manuals from old games. I’m still missing some in my collection.
Z2 is kind of hard to find with Google. Do you mean z2comics?
Thought it was z2.org but it’s actually http://zzt.org
https://rabbit-rabbit.quest/ selects a random location for you to visit every day within walking/cycling distance.
If you want an excuse to visit random coordinates around you geohashing.site is a interesting option. Each day everyone is given the same set of spots to go to, with optional challenges and badges one can do. Its quite surprising how strong the community has been going despite it’s age.
Futility Closet is a collection of entertaining curiosities in history, literature, language, art, philosophy, and mathematics, designed to help you waste time as enjoyably as possible.
It is far from lesser known, but my favorite standalone site is still Atlas Obscura.
So that’s how 27/100 performance feels like…
Are these effective load times? I’m not exactly sure what this is.
Edit to add: Am I misreading this, or is your connection throttled? I have 0 issues loading the site with Firefox + uBlock Origin, either desktop or mobile.
‘old internet’ ?
RUP is totally sweet.
Found two sound/music generating websites (before AI music was cool):
Patapap. This one also has some other interesting sites in it’s footer (on desktop)
Metafilter is a wonderful weblog, and I also read Canlii, which is a legal case website which is a wonderful rabbit hole to fall down to learn about how legal decisions are made.
Practical: ohmslaw.eu
Fun: murderousmaths.co.uk, htwins.netSomeone on Lemmy posted a link to https://corru.observer a week or two ago, and I’m really enjoying the game.
Since people are posting games, I’ll throw in Realms of Despair
do you know how the leveling gain works? do dwarves with thei less than one level slower than elves with more than one. im thinking its the opposite maybe as ones that are more than one seem to have more special things.
I never really paid attention to the level gain ratio. I’d look here for that kind of question.
hey sorry for all the bother and putting you on the spot but I find the thing sorta spams me with my location information. I asked in newbie chat on that and the other thing and there were some configs that mitigated it but some folks said its based on your client. I did not want to spam the chat with what clients people where using so I was wondering if you used anything special. im using putty.
I couldn’t think of many less visited sites I usually go to often, but coalregion(dot)com is an interesting site I found using this Wiby search engine a long time ago. It’s a site about a region in Pennsylvania. They have a section for recipes supposedly from that region along with a section for words/slang from that regions past. They got other things, but the dictionary and recipes interest me more than the other parts.
Used to be thefuckinghomepage but they recently stopped updating
