| ▲ | 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. |
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| ▲ | fckgw 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| "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 |
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| ▲ | executesorder66 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What do you mean non-usable? You could totally spam the work slack channel with these. |
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| ▲ | hnaccount_rng 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I don't think you are meaning quite the same "early internet" if you are referring to Slack channels xD | | |
| ▲ | Ensorceled 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Pretty sure they were addressing the "non-usuable" part and not the "early " part. | |
| ▲ | executesorder66 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 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. | |
| ▲ | devmor 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | s/slack/irc |
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| ▲ | ghayes 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | executesorder66 4 days ago | parent [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | cprecioso 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I miss StumbleUpon |
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| ▲ | reverendsteveii 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | ilrwbwrkhv 4 days ago | parent [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | herval 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I don't think real identities broke the internet... what really did it was the perfecting of the addiction formula, by multiple companies (from facebook to king). It turned it into an Opium den | | |
| ▲ | ilrwbwrkhv 4 days ago | parent [-] | | I think companies would have had a much harder time in perfecting the addiction formula if things were anonymous. | | |
| ▲ | SiempreViernes 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | We all still had defined identities back then, the nicks, even if we didn't use real names. And those are enough for targeting. | |
| ▲ | herval 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Tiktok is entirely anonymous (well other than you showing your face if you post). So is Reddit. So is Candy Crush... |
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| ▲ | dingnuts 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | >The Internet ... should have had no bearing on our actual day-to-day living experience. Replace "The Internet" with previous communications technology and maybe that will demonstrate how completely unrealistic that sounds. Television should have had no bearing on our day-to-day existence? Phones? Radio? I guess you can arbitrarily draw the line at the Internet, sort of like the Amish did with electricity. But it seems arbitrary to me. The moral of every sci-fi story is that technology is morally neutral and it's how you use it that matters. Why would The Internet be different? | | |
| ▲ | singleshot_ 4 days ago | parent [-] | | BBSes had absolutely no bearing on my day to day existence. No one had a job working at Big BBS and there was not a constant drumbeat of hustle culture strugglebussing surrounding the idea of using a modem to post messages. This was the ideal final form of the internet and we lost it forever. Now, we have sludge. |
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| ▲ | asdff 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I consider sites like facebook to be akin to diverting water from the Colorado river. At one point it looked like the nile delta from antiquity and today barely a trickle if that at some times reaches the sea with so much water diverted. The ecosystem diversity falls apart. |
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| ▲ | cosmotron 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 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 | | | |
| ▲ | lippihom 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 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. | | | |
| ▲ | arrowsmith 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Wait, StumbleUpon shut down? I had no idea. That's sad, that site was great. | | | |
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| ▲ | dlazaro 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Happy to hear that — it’s what I was going for :) |
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| ▲ | waonderer 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | yencabulator 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > 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 ;-) |
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| ▲ | Cthulhu_ 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If it was horrible and had music, it'd be like YTMND |
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| ▲ | jraph 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| A form of art :-) |
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| ▲ | eterpstra 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Welcome to ZOMBOCOM |
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| ▲ | dylan604 4 days ago | parent [-] | | To this day, I still can't figure out how to do anything | | |
| ▲ | staplung 4 days ago | parent [-] | | You can do anything at Zombocom. The only limit is yourself. The infinite is possible at Zombocom! | | |
| ▲ | dylan604 4 days ago | parent [-] | | > The only limit is yourself. Kick a man while he's down why don't you? /s It takes courage to admit not being able to do anything! |
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| ▲ | xtiansimon 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | dlazaro 4 days ago | parent [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | xtiansimon 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | 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? | |
| ▲ | skeeter2020 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 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! | |
| ▲ | whstl 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I like the minimalism myself. |
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| ▲ | dhosek 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| dancing hamster |
