Comment by latedog
4 days ago
IDK why, but this reminds me of earlier days of internet, when it was full of random, non-usable but funny content like this. Best things often don't make that much sense.
4 days ago
IDK why, but this reminds me of earlier days of internet, when it was full of random, non-usable but funny content like this. Best things often don't make that much sense.
"Single-serving site" is the term you're looking for. The best part of the early, mass-appeal internet IMO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-serving_site
What do you mean non-usable? You could totally spam the work slack channel with these.
I don't think you are meaning quite the same "early internet" if you are referring to Slack channels xD
Pretty sure they were addressing the "non-usuable" part and not the "early " part.
As sibling comments have correctly guessed, I was only responding to the "non-usable" part of the parent comment. But yeah, replace slack with IRC, email, or whatever you were using at work back in the day.
s/slack/irc
Though, sadly it's not a true image; it's composed as an SVG in HTML. So you can't copy-paste the image into chats.
I noticed that after the fact as well. You could always manually take a screenshot to turn it into a jpg. Or just send the link.
I miss StumbleUpon
stumble was the algo sweet spot. an endless feed of things that are slightly better than being alone with my thoughts, but no parasocial "community" with concomitant toxicity.
Yeah I think what killed the web was Google and Facebook.
The former brought massive amounts of spam and the latter brought real identies which broke the freedom of the internet.
Or in other words, both brought the Internet and made it real and connected with the real world. And I think that's not a good thing. The Internet was supposed to be a virtual space for exploration, learning, fun, and it should have had no bearing on our actual day-to-day living experience.
But now here we are where Google is a spam filled search engine which hardly returns any products and Facebook is a dystopian wasteland and its founder is walking around like a teenage pimp.
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Kagi Small Web has been fun to explore and reminds me a bit of the StumbleUpon of yore: https://kagi.com/smallweb
If you'd like to read more: https://blog.kagi.com/small-web
Also Wiby!
https://wiby.me
Ahhh - golden age of internet fun. Looks like they sold the domain and/or pivoted a bit. Feel like a modern version would be relatively easy to monetize if someone were to ramp it up again.
I've noticed https://clicktheredbutton.com quite a lot in my referrer analytics. I don't know if it's as featureful as StumbleUpon was (I never used it) but it seems to have some fun sites
Wait, StumbleUpon shut down? I had no idea.
That's sad, that site was great.
There’s this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42938061
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Happy to hear that — it’s what I was going for :)
You are telling me that my cosmic clock is not usable?
https://cosmic-clock.vercel.app
PS. I made it for myself just for fun. Haven't checked issues such as time for other countries. Just checked, time still stays local (Indian) for me even if I use VPN to change my location. I am using p5 and JS for the two times.
> non-usable
https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/day would be easy to make into a very much usable clock. I'm actually a little disappointed it didn't already update as a minute passed ;-)
If it was horrible and had music, it'd be like YTMND
A form of art :-)
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More clicking, please. OP mentions different versions, but you can’t get to them from one another (at least on mobile). The hyperlink is the aesthetic of www. If you don’t have them, then it should be evident why not. Leaves me scratching me head.
I did that intentionally because the only thing I wanted on the page was the comic panel. I may reconsider and add a small info button in the corner of the page with links to other timescales and the source code.
But I'm also trying not to overthink this too much... It's just a silly little website I made in an evening.
Why not just make the comic panel itself a link? Click to cycle through the different messages…? I’m asking. Do you feel this changes the aesthetic significantly?
if you are going for a "classic" internet aesthetic, remember we loved wonky, quirky (and annoying) UX! If it's not grey background with blue and purple links (and a server timestamp in italics!) it's got to be completely custom & non-standard. My request is image maps please!
I like the minimalism myself.
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