cozy 90s BBS forums, obscure blogs, etc.
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I was there, Gandalf, when we named hosts after your horse and didn’t pronounce the “dot” in “.com”
Aw i miss when website tracking was only “xxxx users have visited this page” and it was just a simple counter that counted up.
I remember being so proud when I implemented that on my first website.
THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!
Yep! I did it for a final project, called DANK WEB. We implemented an airhorn counter. We found out the day before that it just stored the value it saw +1 to the DB so a bad actor could reset the count. Then we easily figured out that we could just reference the DB so we fixed the bad actor part.
We got a 98 on the final. It was the most fun I had on a project in all of college.
Don’t forget signing the guest list.
I haven’t visited in a long time – but I can’t imagine Craigslist has changed much.
It has not, though there really isn’t much posted there anymore. Facebook marketplace has replaced it for most stuff. :(
This was mentioned on another post a few months ago, but it depends on your locale. In some places, it’s Craigslist. Others, FB Marketplace.
What about craigslist casual encounters? I’d love to see facebook’s attempt at that.
Facebook dating? Lol
Facebook one night stands.
Depends where you live.
Craigslist is slightly cleaner looking that it used to be but the functionality and button placement is identical. I much prefer it to Facebook marketplace or OfferUp.
It’s not obscure, but, for me, Wikipedia is the ultimate example of the old internet that still persists today.
Free to use, no account required, ad free, non-corporate, multilingual, heavily biased toward text, simple and utilitarian design. Hyperlinks concatenate relevant pieces of information, which serve as the means to navigate the site. The code is very simple (seriously, view the page source of a wikipiedia article). It’s based on the human desire to learn and share knowledge with others, and has remained resilient to corruption by commercial interests that pervert that desire for monetary gain. It’s a beautiful thing.
Really awesome old school sites. Crazy gifs, web rings, etc.
https://www.spacejam.com/1996/jam.html
I’m pretty sure spacejam.com showed that page up until the sequel supplanted it.
From a time when websites used
<table>orposition: absolute;to place elements on the screen. That website is just one big table.I feel that right in the MySpace.
Kernel.org, home of the Linux kernel, hasn’t changed much.
Kernel.org today:
Kernel.org in 1998:
https://web.archive.org/web/19980130085039/https://kernel.org/
Along the same lines,
slackware.com today:
slackware.com in 2001:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010404232132/http://www.slackware.com/
Florida’s unemployment website
And pretty much the rest of the FSF and GNU websites.
All of them, if you browse with Links.
LYNX v2.9.2 released in May 2024.
For better experience I recommend
elinks.
Still in active development.pretty sure links is just a link to elinks now in most distros.
Not a website, but since you mention BBSes…one thing that would look pretty familiar to a 1990s Internet user would be most of the text-based MUDs, the ancestor of MMORPGs, that are around.
The MUD Connector is still around, and still has a list of active MUDs.
While I suspect that most dedicated MUDders use dedicated clients, the base protocol is still normally telnet, and you can use a plain old telnet client to play…a protocol that predates Internet Protocol itself.
I still mud on occasion. I used TinyFugue back when i started mudding in 88 or 89 (maybe lot was 89/90). I then used zMUD and later cMUD for years. Now I use MUDlet.
Your way back search engine https://wiby.me It even comes a surprise me button
I have the suprise page set as start page in my browser, so i get a surprise website, when i open a browser window.
If you want one that isn’t actually from that time, just feels like it, I’d say https://tildes.net/
