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Yeah the internets dead and social media has killed it, etc and so forth - but what if! What if there are still some decent websites kicking about that have not been entirely captured by the social media machine? This thread is for sharing websites off the beaten track, special interest, niche things, pointless endeavors, fool's errands or just whatever floats your goat. I'll start with some here I have, will post more if people like the thread, my bookmarks are ridiculously unorganised: https://rave.dj/ - This website makes cool mashups from YouTube links you feed it https://neocities.org/ - A cool Geocities revival project for tiny niche sites and whatnot! https://aeon.co/ - High quality online magazine focusing on "philosophy, science, psychology, society and culture" https://psyche.co/ - Like above but with more of a psychology, history and anthropology focus https://stilltasty.com/ - Useful website for looking up how long specific food keeps https://366weirdmovies.com/ - A celebration of weird, obscure and cult movies! https://lparchive.org/ - Probably most people here already knows about this but I had forgotten about it until today, it's the Let's Play Archive! https://3quarksdaily.com/ - High quality blog on "science, design, literature, current affairs, art, politics, philosophy" and more https://www.cathar.info/ - Interesting in-depth website about the syncretic 11th century religious movement the Cathars of Southern France https://www.themarginalian.org/ - Pop philosophy type beard stroking type articles https://ground.news/ - A news aggregator that shows the proportional coverage of issues by left and right wing outlets https://www.openculture.com/ - Endless free educational and cultural material https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/ - British PC gaming website, good source of indie game news https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/ - Idiosyncratic musings on psychiatry https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk/ - Directory for intentional communities in the UK Minotaurus Rex fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Apr 11, 2024 |
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http://www.somethingawful.com - Something Awful is a long-standing and often irreverent website that's a bit like a digital playground for humor, internet culture, and general weirdness. It features a mix of articles, forums, and user-generated content that can be both hilarious and offbeat. The site has a unique blend of satire, memes, and inside jokes that have influenced internet culture over the years. It's definitely not for everyone due to its sometimes edgy or off-color humor, but if you enjoy internet subcultures and enjoy poking fun at the absurdities of life online, you might find it a fascinating place to explore.
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spam.com, your home for news, recipes, community forums, and more featuring Spam, America's favorite potted meat product
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Hmm on reflection maybe this was a dumb idea
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Minotaurus Rex posted:Hmm on reflection maybe this was a dumb idea It's a good idea! Once the shitposts are out of the way I think some people will come in with some actual contributions.
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credburn posted:It's a good idea! Once the shitposts are out of the way I think some people will come in with some actual contributions. This - wade through the initial obligatory sometimes funny stuff and good contributions will show up.
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https://fark.com The only site with users as old as we are. https://ilovebacon.com/ has not posted in a few years but was one my of time-waster sites for the longest time. https://cloudhiker.net/ is a cool site that acts kinda like a Web Ring., or what you'd find with Googles old "I'm feeling lucky" button. All kinds of people running old school websites about their hobbies or cool projects they're working on. Totally reminds me of just clicking around poo poo on the early internet.
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http://rinkworks.com/ - I remember using it for its fantasy name generator 20 odd years ago.
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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:http://rinkworks.com/ - I remember using it for its fantasy name generator 20 odd years ago. Oh man that takes me back. Must've been about 20 years as well since I saw that site, thanks for the blast of nostalgia!
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I don't have much to add but I appreciate the op
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Why wouldn't you include the iconic https://www.spacejam.com/1996/ and https://zombo.com/ https://www.penisland.net/
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https://dosdeck.com/ - Play some classic DOS games from your browser https://wwoof.net/ - An excellent network of volunteering opportunities at ecologically friendly farming and similar projects https://www.gurumag.com/ - Online anti-cult magazine https://redsails.org/ - Large collection of essays on far-left politics https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/resources#all - Huge collection of resources aimed at helping people who wish to 'recover' from religious involvement, and associated issues people face. Includes info on leaving Buddhism which is somewhat more difficult to find than info on leaving the Western religions. Just loads of quality info on here https://my90stv.com/ - "Go back to the 1990's via this nostalgic TV simulator and relive the original ads, music videos, movie trailers, shows and more!".. Also links on there to simulators of other decades from the 1950s to the 2000s
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https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ basically a web-zine for solar punk style projects/ramblings with a focus on sustainability.
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And of course https://goontu.be/ - 24/7 rolling goon watch-party website 
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Chip Player JS
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I don't think escapist should be looked at, visited or supported due to it being sold to poo poo heels with the money to buy it.
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kntfkr posted:I don't think escapist should be looked at, visited or supported due to it being sold to poo poo heels with the money to buy it. Swapped it out for Rock Paper Shotgun
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http://www.com-www.com - one of the coolest URLs still held in the clutches of Web 1.0.
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https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/- Forum dedicated to creative fiction, mostly consisting of forum quests and grand strategy roleplay. https://forums.spacebattles.com/ - Another, similar website, though more focused on the creative writing aspect.
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cool threadd op. thanks
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midnight77 posted:https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/- Forum dedicated to creative fiction, mostly consisting of forum quests and grand strategy roleplay. holy poo poo this reminded me of a rpg forum that i used to post/creatively write on as a teenager, so i had to check if it still existed: https://althanas.com/ lo and behold, it does
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https://archiveofourown.org/ - Almost 13 million fanfictions in one site. Every fandom you could possibly think of (I saw, but did not read, an  -tagged Ellen Degeneres fic there once, for example). If not the birthplace of rule 34, certainly a MAJOR upholder of its principles.
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I want to contribute but this is pretty much the only "live" feed I can look at without getting mad. Two shops. It's a store so not a place to read or anything but I've been taking up drawing as a fun thing to do with my son and I really like the stationery, pens and brushes at https://www.jetpens.com/ Similar : https://www.1101.com/store/ is Itoi's (the earthbound guy) stationery company. I've been using their planners for about 4 years. I am ADHD brained but can't take pills. These planners have helped me a lot with staying on top of poo poo.
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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:http://rinkworks.com/ - I remember using it for its fantasy name generator 20 odd years ago. ohh poo poo forgot about this. I remember playing Murkons Refuge back in the day, just checked and my login is still saved too! I still have maps I made saved on my google drive from 06.
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i use neocities to host my website, it's cool. the age of webrings have returned
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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 Cubone fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Apr 12, 2024 |
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cumpantry posted:somethingawful.org nice phishing attempt
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drat, that site gives me super nostalgia. especially the pencil cases
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Will have to think about it, but archive.org has an Internet Arcade page that's pretty cool, if you want to play some old arcade games in your browser.Bonzo posted:https://cloudhiker.net/ is a cool site that acts kinda like a Web Ring., or what you'd find with Googles old "I'm feeling lucky" button. All kinds of people running old school websites about their hobbies or cool projects they're working on. Totally reminds me of just clicking around poo poo on the early internet. This one's pretty neat. kntfkr posted:I want to contribute but this is pretty much the only "live" feed I can look at without getting mad. Two shops. Whenever I see a stationery shop I get the urge to buy some pens that I don't actually need. Or some nice paper. Got a LAMY Joy just because it seemed like it'd be nice to twirl.
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https://music.ishkur.com/ Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
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Gonna second this one, if you like reading well-written articles about dumb stuff this is full of great material. I'd argue the paid stuff is worth the money, but there's still a ton of free content on there, with a free article a week and a ton of older articles eventually getting moved to free as well. Cubone posted: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 Do it.
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http://www.bonernoise.com/ boi-oi-oing https://unicodesnowmanforyou.com/ ☃
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http://chaoticshiny.com/ is just a bunch of random generators. Useful for tabletop games or story inspiration, plus there's some really dumb ones in there for fun too. https://mountainofink.com/ this is a blog that reviews fountain pen ink. Look at the pretty ink, some shimmers, some have multiple colours! Ooooooh~~
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