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Vile_Nihlist666: Jan 15, 2009; I'm a special kind of asshole!

https://www.stupidvideos.com - I don't know about you guys, but before youtube, and around the time I discovered Something Awful, this was my go to video site. Looks like they're still up in a sort of archive format.

A topical sample:

https://www.stupidvideos.com/?VideoID=587

Vile_Nihlist666 fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Apr 13, 2024

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Vile_Nihlist666: Jan 15, 2009; I'm a special kind of asshole!

Cubone posted:

https://www.atlasobscura.com - you've probably heard of their coffee table book. just a big, constantly growing collection of interesting and unique locations from around the world. not clickbaity, they seem to actually do their research and even occasionally debunk persistent myths, as with the story of central park's lost dinosaur museum. they also have weekly puzzles, and sometimes it's just a mostly themed crossword puzzle, but other times they're stuff like logic puzzles about a place in brazil with 5 official languages or this obscure grid thingy from a japanese puzzle magazine

https://1900hotdog.com - the last daily destination comedy website in the world. new home of seanbaby and robert brockway for the last few years, and occasional safe harbor for refugees from sites like cracked and fanbyte that were developing cool teams of regular contributors before being bought over by business monsters and gutted. a lot of it is paywalled, which sucks, but is also kind of just a reality of the advertising apocalypse. maybe check out these free articles and see if it's for you: 101 hamburger jokes, twisted metal 2 endings, captain america vs the bullshit robot

https://news.ycombinator.com - might be kind of... specific, compared to the others here, but it's also an old web site that I like to check in on when I'm bored just like the old days. it's just people posting links to interesting poo poo on other websites, but it's people who are still interested in doing that, rather than like selling you things or converting you politically

http://wiby.me is absolutely amazing. it's a search engine that only indexes web 1.0 sites. like, meaning ones that use strictly pre-html5 html, I think. I have thought about making a thread just for wiby and posting cool things you find through wiby

and this isn't a recommendation exactly but god I miss io9
I mean, it still exists, but it's mostly just relentless pathetic shilling for comicbook bullshit. I don't even know how to describe what it used to be. the nerd jerkoffery was always there to get clicks, but it was also a curated hub of just interesting poo poo
"The remarkable story of a Russian family cut off from all human contact for 40 years"
"Tilt-shift effect photos of the universe make the vast cosmos look tiny"
"Why do birds fly in a V formation?"
they introduced me to so many cool little things. a digital version of an atlas from the 1930's, michaelangelo's grocery list, the art of uno moralez, they'd share random cool animated shorts and concept art that you'd otherwise probably never hear of, and write gushing articles about the increasing viability of spider silk in manufacturing. I miss them!
now the entire website is just 5000 articles a day like "top 19 avengers that were at the comic con star trek star wars" and it breaks my loving heart.
if there's anything like what io9 was 10-12 years ago, I am all ears

First site that Wimby took me to:

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buglord: Jul 31, 2010; Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!; Buglord

Vile_Nihlist666 posted:

https://www.stupidvideos.com - I don't know about you guys, but before youtube, and around the time I discovered Something Awful, this was my go to video site. Looks like they're still up in a sort of archive format.

but I havent thought of this website since like..elementary school.

# ? Apr 13, 2024 04:02

Secks Cauldron: Aug 26, 2006; I thought they closed that place down!

Cubone posted:

https://www.atlasobscura.com - you've probably heard of their coffee table book. just a big, constantly growing collection of interesting and unique locations from around the world. not clickbaity, they seem to actually do their research and even occasionally debunk persistent myths, as with the story of central park's lost dinosaur museum. they also have weekly puzzles, and sometimes it's just a mostly themed crossword puzzle, but other times they're stuff like logic puzzles about a place in brazil with 5 official languages or this obscure grid thingy from a japanese puzzle magazine

I love Atlas Obscura. I was going to post them if nobody else had :3:

# ? Apr 13, 2024 04:32

Minotaurus Rex: Feb 25, 2007; if this accounts a rockin'
don't come a knockin'

https://www.whosampled.com/ - Database of the tunes that hip-hop tunes sampled

# ? Apr 13, 2024 05:54

Pac and Cheese: Oct 29, 2010; gotta walk fast

Minotaurus Rex posted:

https://www.whosampled.com/ - Database of the tunes that hip-hop tunes sampled

good site https://www.whosampled.com/Method-Man/Mef-vs.-Chef-2/

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Squiggle: Sep 29, 2002; I don't think she likes the special sauce, Rick.

This isn't some old site but it is an extremely detailed and long description of how flight works, with interactive graphics that look like this:

Squiggle fucked around with this message at 06:12 on Apr 13, 2024

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les enfants Terrific!: Dec 12, 2008

http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm is a site that discusses various apocalypse scenarios. A lot of the images are now broken, but the main draw (the inspection of scenarios) is still there. Remember reading it a lot as a kid, revisit it occasionally and it's still great.

les enfants Terrific! fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Apr 14, 2024

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Spazzle: Jul 5, 2003

https://www.thistothat.com/

Glue two things together.

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