cozy 90s BBS forums, obscure blogs, etc.
How is it that 2 days after this posted no one has said “Craigslist.”
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.
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.
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.
THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!
I was there, Gandalf, when we named hosts after your horse and didn’t pronounce the “dot” in “.com”
Florida’s unemployment website
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. :(
Depends where you live.
What about craigslist casual encounters? I’d love to see facebook’s attempt at that.
Facebook dating? Lol
Facebook one night stands.
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.
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.
people often say they can find this kind of thing via my employer, Mojeek: https://www.mojeek.com/
Lookup brutalist websites or the gemini protocol.
All of them, if you browse with Links.
For better experience I recommend
elinks
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Still in active development.pretty sure links is just a link to elinks now in most distros.
LYNX v2.9.2 released in May 2024.