cozy 90s BBS forums, obscure blogs, etc.
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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.
https://www.spacejam.com/1996/jam.html
I’m pretty sure spacejam.com showed that page up until the sequel supplanted it.
Really awesome old school sites. Crazy gifs, web rings, etc.
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If you want one that isn’t actually from that time, just feels like it, I’d say https://tildes.net/
How is it that 2 days after this posted no one has said “Craigslist.”
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Debian’s website….
Not the original, but…
Ebay
I imagine their source code is such an unmaintainable mess that it’s impossible to modernize
it was written in FORTRAN
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.
TIL Timecube is no longer up. That was my go to site for what the internet used to be like.
aw man that site was like Dr Bronner’s took some digital mushrooms
