- I just made a pretty strange one myself: https://currentcondition.tv
I've added quite a few Easter eggs and a few old school games. Let me know what you think?
Blue dots are locations of previous visitors.. it all works well on desktop, the games need a bit more love to work well on mobile.
by only-one1701
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- I thought that "A Website to Destroy All Websites" as a bit precious but like this for the "I'm feeling lucky" logic alone. The author is right. The internet was good and now, I'm sorry to say, sucks. I'm worried something's gone for good.
- This is definitely inspired by the print book "house of leaves", a strange work of ergodic fiction: The subset box layouts with backward text, the coloring of a single word a bright color throughout ("house" and "Minotaur" in HoL)
It's a great book :)
by GaryBluto
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- I was just thinking to myself about how much the internet was lacking in self-important esoteric gibberish. I am unsurprised to see it came from the same person as "A Website to Destroy All Websites".
I am especially befuddled by all the comments stating "This is how the web used to be!"; no it wasn't, and I can only imagine those who think so collate their view of web history purely through what others say on Mastodon and Twitter (who in turn probably constructed their view of the time from the twelfth or so chinese whisper down the line of various blogs and manifestos).
by AndrewStephens
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- The world needs more idiosyncratic and opinionated hand crafted websites like this.
- For something a bit more “substantive” (or perhaps earnest) but still reminiscent of the same aesthetic this evokes, I recommend spending a few minutes poking around big gulp supreme: https://biggulpsupreme.neocities.org/
- As soon as I saw the scrolling "made by henry (from online)." at the bottom I thought "marquee" tag. Sure enough when I inspected the DOM it does use one.
- Curious detail: the button/widget icons of the browser chrome are composed of multi-layered box-shadows (i.e. one box-shadow definition per pixel or line, concatenated to a sting) of a `:before` pseudo element. (I don't think that I've seen anything alike before.)
Meaning: also no images.
by PlunderBunny
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- Also check out this guy's postings on Bluesky [0] - some comedy gold there:
"my cathedral-seeing eyes finally came in the mail, really excited to try these puppies out. oh holy shit"
0. https://bsky.app/profile/strange.website
- This reminds me of the way the Internet was in the past. And the random sites to which this site links. (If you have not seen Neocities, it is another similar place which is the predecessor of Geocities before Yahoo! bought it and killed it.)
by regenschutz
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- This is why we all should just use hieroglyphs instead. You don't have to worry about where to put icons when everything is an icon!
/s, if it wasn't obvious...
- The book that this website is inspired by...its plot seems to echo my impression of what these “Old/small web elegies” are becoming.
A man stumbles upon the idea of a thing that itself is borne off the account of someone else that never actually came to pass. Madness ensues. And madness perhaps precedes the event. ‘Weird and eerie’.
by xtiansimon
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- If the world of vice coding brought us more strange websites, it’s 1996 all over again. Let the games begin!
by evanjrowley
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- That was the most time I've spent on any website linked here.
- you might also like: myhouse.wad
- cool but everyone should just read house of leaves themselves
- Am I the only one who sees this as a referential homage to Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities"?
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