https://spaghettimodels.com/ aka, Mike's Weather Page
It's just incomprehensible that Mike has resisted organization and web design so long. It's like a fossilized web site from the early Internet, preserved in amber for us to see.
woah I love this. No navigation bar needed, you just zoom and scroll at will to whatever takes your interest
I actually agree. I feel like there was a different ethos back in the earlier web that information density was a-ok. It feels like years more usable than just-in-time loading modules and constant clicking through pages.
I use his site all the time! Took a while to get the hang of where to find stuff but most important links and data is all there.
Amerikan!
I mean it's not good but https://jesus-is-savior.com/ is just rabbit hole upon rabbit hole. CW: gore, sexism, queerphobia, probably other bigotry
spoiler because finding it yourself is definitely an experience
somehow the most insane part of the website is when you find the Hawaiian music https://jesus-is-savior.com/sounds/music_from_my_heart.htm
Holy fuck that is unhinged. Side note, who is behind that site, and why do they have so many ads for Alex Jones? Kind of liking how they all link to the infowars domain, which is going to be owned by someone else soon hopefully though.
The amount of insane content on that site is astounding. It was kinda nice how fast the plain HTML pages loaded though.
I actually had seen one page from this site because it talks about how a niche religion is WITCHCRAFT and SATANIC, but that front page is a work of art.
Pylon appreciation
Taxonomy of bread fasteners
Pathetic motorways
Pathetic motorways
This look like a successor to RoadToNoWhere
https://web.archive.org/web/20071017115032/http://road-to-nowhere.co.uk/index.html
Taxonomy of bread fasteners
Nope, I saw a video about the rarest bread clip and it talked about that site
If you want to see what various license plates look like from all of North America (as well as what they looked like in the past), there is a website that with a short URL. Strangely enough, the website never gone to https. The link is http://www.15q.net/
I guess https isn't strictly necessary if you're not handling user input.
There's still an argument to be made that https prevents malicious code from being injected in transit.
http://thewartburgwatch.com/ has years of dirt on nearly every megachurch pastor
A remake of the og website sodaconstructor
https://panoramx.ift.uni.wroc.pl/~maq/felp.pl/sanjose/index.html
I've missed Sodaplay and Sodaconstructor!
Amazing nostalgia. I can't remember how to do it!
If it makes you feel better, I don't think I ever really knew how to do it.
A comic, made with photos of posed bendy figurines. Was very influential in certain circles (like other, more obscure websites I won't name). Still up, but hasn't been updated in 20 years.
Shit, as long as I'm posting websites from the 1900's that are still up, there's also Zombo.com.
websites from the 1900s
how dare you
Woman got special government permission to go motorcycling in Chernobyl. She took pictures.
The site is still around.
A fansite for Takeshi's Castle
https://www.lmfdb.org/ for people deep into analytic number theory rabbit hole.
Science fiction in Spanish :-)
Tendré que explorarlo
Oh darn, it seems the website isn't up anymore. It was, to my knowledge, never archived and never properly indexed by a search engine. I have no screenshots, so it's basically lost media. All this to say it's unlikely anyone here has heard of it.
Well, it was an IWW split called the "International Workers of the World" (it seemed to be composed of at most 3 people). If my notes are right it was internationalworkersoftheworld.org (seems even DNS is completely dead now). Their webpage was simple HTML, from the dates it hadn't been updated in years, and most of the body was complaining about IWW internal politics, and people who had long moved on from the union.
MetaFilter
I know that one thanks to another post I saw here, days ago
Anyone remember technorati? What about the nethernet? Ah that brings me back...
Browser based game with slidehopping. I like to call it the only non dead movement shooter.
A Girls World.
Back in the 2000s, a place for young girls. Articles, recipes, I think games? I edited articles for a bit. I use to be able to directly connect where I'd been online to there, in the sense of, "banner on website suggested this website and talked to people there which lead to this and then that and now to here" but my memory is bad now so I can't.
If it still exists I doubt it's anything like the original.
lots of weird sites that exist that probably only their creator visit
This site has probably the best disclaimer I’ve ever seen at the bottom of the page.
And even more You must understand, that using a boat may be dangerous: -The boat may fall over. -You may fall out of the boat. -The boat may hit a rock. -Your shoes may get wet. -The boat may get filled with water. -The boat may sink. -Another boat may hit Your boat. -The boat may drift a long distance away. -You may get lost with the boat. -When rowing, You may get blisters in Your hands and butt. -If You get into water, You may drown or get hypothermia. -Killer sharks may attack You. -Anything else may happen👌
Permanently Deleted
Cephalopods galore! Octopalooza!
The owner is my hero
Spent way too long solving a sliding puzzle. Love the pop up "Puzzle solved!" at the end.
The temple of the screaming electron
Not obscure enough, cool site though! Used to post there and amateurpyro, mtbs3d and a few others
Actually a useful site and from my friend's company! stremecoder.com
It's a graphical node-based platform to write and learn python
http://www.vk2zay.net/ Maybe this is obscure enough?! I miss hobby sites like this!
Wow those calculators
There used to be a site in the 90s that was my go to for... anime research purposes, yeah. Vham.com.br if memory serves (Viciados em Hentai, Anime e Mangá), it has probably been offline for more than 17 years now.
There was a website I remember back in the early 2000s about a fictional communist Canada. It was hilarious and awesome and wish I could even remember what it was called…
AI: It sounds like you might be thinking of "The People's Republic of Canada," a satirical website that depicted a fictional communist version of Canada. It featured humorous content, including fake news articles, propaganda, and other comedic takes on Canadian culture and politics.
Also AI: The domain for "The People's Republic of Canada" was typically found at prc.ca. It was a humorous site that parodied a communist version of Canada.
butts.移动
You are sure that no one has heard of Homestar Runner on a website of technology savvy early adopters whose age averages in the 30s and 40s?
spotted in new ben stiller movie
it's so over
Look at my pfp. :-)
There used to be a site called mingers.com
It was just pics of really ugly people
Obviously doesn't exist now!
Books from 100 years ago in digital. Beautiful resource.
For a loooong time I kept 'Amish Rake Fight / GFY' on a bookmark to send to people.
It was just a page with a middle finger saying 'Go Fuck Yourself' and a counter saying how many people have been told to go Fuck Themselves.
After a decade or so, there was a page added with hate mail & various threats....the owner I'm sure had lots of fun with it. AFAIK it stopped working about 5-6 years ago.
PLASTERof PAradISe. It was one of the first websites I came across accidentally back in about 1995, I just checked and it still exists (on Geocities!) It’s a fetish site with links to every instance of movies, shows, books etc. with people wearing full body, arm and leg casts. I remember it even had episodes of the Simpsons where casts were depicted. “To each his own”, I guess!
Some of you probably don’t know about http://www.oglaf.com/ but should, because sex and comedy go so well together.
I have one I know for a fact y'all don't know about, but if I told you I'd probably almost certainly out myself on that site. So, no, sorry, not telling.
