cozy 90s BBS forums, obscure blogs, etc.
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I was there, Gandalf, when we named hosts after your horse and didn’t pronounce the “dot” in “.com”
Not a website, but since you mention BBSes…one thing that would look pretty familiar to a 1990s Internet user would be most of the text-based MUDs, the ancestor of MMORPGs, that are around.
The MUD Connector is still around, and still has a list of active MUDs.
While I suspect that most dedicated MUDders use dedicated clients, the base protocol is still normally telnet, and you can use a plain old telnet client to play…a protocol that predates Internet Protocol itself.
I still mud on occasion. I used TinyFugue back when i started mudding in 88 or 89 (maybe lot was 89/90). I then used zMUD and later cMUD for years. Now I use MUDlet.
They are trying to be 90s, but I love it. I thought they had a site counter at some point, but maybe I am misremembering and it was just the guest book.
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!!!
Don’t forget signing the guest list.
Florida’s unemployment website
Ebay
I imagine their source code is such an unmaintainable mess that it’s impossible to modernize
it was written in FORTRAN
https://everything2.com/node/e2node/An Introduction to Everything2 - massively interlinked information site
https://www.dieselsweeties.com/ - robots and people comic
https://realultimatepower.net/ - ninjas
Has Real Ultimate Power actually changed at all/added new content? I was reading that in elementary.
Nope, exact same html.
I see YouTube videos linked, and I remember being on this site before YouTube existed. I don’t think it has changed all that much, though.
Debian’s website….
hey, thats not fair, they redid it a few years back /s
gradients, animated GIFs, “best browsed on”, and a frame once you click enter. Only thing it’s missing is an index page.
frame
Now, that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.
Story time: In the super old days, I want to say 1996? 1997? I wrote a four or five line HTML that would split the screen into two horizontal frames, then split those each into vertical frames, then those horizontal – ad infinitum.
I don’t think there were any browsers that didn’t fail that test. I’m sure I only checked IE3 or IE4 and Netscape. One of them locked the computer up and had to be killed via “close program.” The other one locked the machine up and it became completely unresponsive, needing to be hard booted.
Excellent example.
I get most of the stills for my Star Trek memes from trekcore.com which has a pretty old-web feel to it.
If killing someone would help, I would kill for a Star Wars site like that
How is it that 2 days after this posted no one has said “Craigslist.”
people often say they can find this kind of thing via my employer, Mojeek: https://www.mojeek.com/
If you want one that isn’t actually from that time, just feels like it, I’d say https://tildes.net/
