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January 5, 2025 2:12 PM Subscribe
It's refreshing to see so many hand-crafting sites. I wonder how many are long-running sites and how many are young people working in a nostalgic mode.
posted by rottytooth at 2:24 PM on January 5 [4 favorites]
posted by rottytooth at 2:24 PM on January 5 [4 favorites]
The internet used to be fun...
Mr. Winkle looks like a good boi
posted by Windopaene at 2:40 PM on January 5 [10 favorites]
Mr. Winkle looks like a good boi
posted by Windopaene at 2:40 PM on January 5 [10 favorites]
Oh I'm pissed that hell.com now redirects to mybible.com.
That's even worse than what bud.com turned into.
posted by alex_skazat at 2:40 PM on January 5 [6 favorites]
That's even worse than what bud.com turned into.
posted by alex_skazat at 2:40 PM on January 5 [6 favorites]
arlingtontour.com no longer serves a juicy dose of teenage ennui.
But the hand crafted HTML mentioning FTP(!) written by the owner once he took it down is charming. And really, the Minuteman Trail enables Arlington MA's youngsters to have a pretty cool social life when the afternoon bell rings. and the web Archive does the LORD's work in serving us a taste of auld lang see
posted by ocschwar at 2:44 PM on January 5 [3 favorites]
But the hand crafted HTML mentioning FTP(!) written by the owner once he took it down is charming. And really, the Minuteman Trail enables Arlington MA's youngsters to have a pretty cool social life when the afternoon bell rings. and the web Archive does the LORD's work in serving us a taste of auld lang see
posted by ocschwar at 2:44 PM on January 5 [3 favorites]
And yet ironically it lists a website from heaven. Updated less than a month ago.
posted by Nelson at 2:48 PM on January 5 [3 favorites]
posted by Nelson at 2:48 PM on January 5 [3 favorites]
The internet used to be fun
archive.org keeping it alive
posted by flabdablet at 2:53 PM on January 5 [8 favorites]
archive.org keeping it alive
posted by flabdablet at 2:53 PM on January 5 [8 favorites]
These living fossils from the halcyon days of the WWW are not what I would have deemed “from hell,” but I suppose amazon.com, x.com, facebook.com, and their ilk get enough traffic already.
posted by ejs at 3:20 PM on January 5 [9 favorites]
posted by ejs at 3:20 PM on January 5 [9 favorites]
I was also here for some hell.com lore. Apparently it was sold in 2009.
posted by grumpybear69 at 3:21 PM on January 5 [1 favorite]
posted by grumpybear69 at 3:21 PM on January 5 [1 favorite]
cat-bounce.com might be from hell, but from a terrific circle of it.
posted by JHarris at 3:39 PM on January 5 [3 favorites]
posted by JHarris at 3:39 PM on January 5 [3 favorites]
I remember the old days...
The Web didn't exist.
I was a Delphi programmer. (still am but not useful_)
And back in the day, Sambar Server), you could totally program HTML text to deliver your experience.
Then XML came along, and the Delphi folks were all like, "You can deliver all your code on the Web in XML..."
And then took the Delphi architect
And createated c#
posted by Windopaene at 4:05 PM on January 5 [2 favorites]
The Web didn't exist.
I was a Delphi programmer. (still am but not useful_)
And back in the day, Sambar Server), you could totally program HTML text to deliver your experience.
Then XML came along, and the Delphi folks were all like, "You can deliver all your code on the Web in XML..."
And then took the Delphi architect
And createated c#
posted by Windopaene at 4:05 PM on January 5 [2 favorites]
I, too, will not stand for Mr. Winkle slander. I had all the Winkle merch from back in the day...and then yes, did kind of morbidly keep up with it for a while because it was clear Mr. Winkle had gone to the great dog park in the sky. But LOVE LIVE WINKLE!
posted by BlahLaLa at 4:14 PM on January 5 [6 favorites]
posted by BlahLaLa at 4:14 PM on January 5 [6 favorites]
"hell"?--no. mebbe "geocities-pregoblincore", some of 'em. me like.
posted by graywyvern at 4:20 PM on January 5 [5 favorites]
posted by graywyvern at 4:20 PM on January 5 [5 favorites]
(Wasn't there a book with the same name? With a subtitle something like "learning good design from bad websites" or something? It was the first place I learned that having a very nice and cute and appropriate-for-the-medium page curl in the upper right corner of your website was bad.)
posted by mittens at 4:21 PM on January 5 [4 favorites]
posted by mittens at 4:21 PM on January 5 [4 favorites]
I miss this web. No piles of non-performant JS, or at least very little of it, and no endless list of third-party resources loading to enable some minor (hated) "feature". The feeling that there were genuine humans behind the tacky curtains.
posted by maxwelton at 4:40 PM on January 5 [9 favorites]
posted by maxwelton at 4:40 PM on January 5 [9 favorites]
Websites from hell?
I see a lot of goofy early web pages on there, but sites like Facebook and Fox News are suspiciously absent.
posted by Ickster at 4:57 PM on January 5 [12 favorites]
I see a lot of goofy early web pages on there, but sites like Facebook and Fox News are suspiciously absent.
posted by Ickster at 4:57 PM on January 5 [12 favorites]
I miss the internet I never knew about.
posted by bluesky43 at 4:58 PM on January 5 [3 favorites]
posted by bluesky43 at 4:58 PM on January 5 [3 favorites]
right, just piling on at this point but the real hell is modern web: 5 websites, each consisting of screenshots from the other four
posted by glonous keming at 6:13 PM on January 5 [15 favorites]
posted by glonous keming at 6:13 PM on January 5 [15 favorites]
oh wow niceup.com rules: "the first and still one of the Internet's foremost Reggae web sites since 1992, the Jammin Reggae Archives"
posted by BungaDunga at 6:21 PM on January 5 [3 favorites]
posted by BungaDunga at 6:21 PM on January 5 [3 favorites]
What's our ranking?
posted by y2karl at 7:26 PM on January 5 [2 favorites]
posted by y2karl at 7:26 PM on January 5 [2 favorites]
"Last updated: 10-Sep-1996"
posted by fantabulous timewaster at 9:06 PM on January 5 [2 favorites]
posted by fantabulous timewaster at 9:06 PM on January 5 [2 favorites]
Di and Do
I can't believe the Heaven's Gate site is still up.
posted by Ickster at 10:04 PM on January 5 [3 favorites]
I can't believe the Heaven's Gate site is still up.
posted by Ickster at 10:04 PM on January 5 [3 favorites]
Everlasting Spork is a great blog name.
posted by y2karl at 10:47 PM on January 5 [4 favorites]
posted by y2karl at 10:47 PM on January 5 [4 favorites]
They aren't from hell, though, are they? They're lovingly hand crafted by people, in an age where they were told "You can do it all in HTML" and by gum they did do it all. They didn't just hit a button on Wordpress and start babbling. Instead they hewed their websites by main force out of the living pixels.
posted by BCMagee at 12:47 AM on January 6 [9 favorites]
posted by BCMagee at 12:47 AM on January 6 [9 favorites]
Okay, I just submitted one I built in the early '00s for an indie film. The site really went to hell when the filmmaker took it over and filled it with animated gifs. It's pretty glorious in its grotesqueness. Would linking it here violate the no-self-links rule?
posted by under_petticoat_rule at 5:41 AM on January 6 [2 favorites]
posted by under_petticoat_rule at 5:41 AM on January 6 [2 favorites]
So is every single local news and recipe website on the list I assume?
posted by gottabefunky at 7:36 AM on January 6
posted by gottabefunky at 7:36 AM on January 6
Awwww.... frames. I made a few of those in my day.
I really miss the days when I was kind of starry eyed about the internet and the fantastic opportunity it provided for people to talk to each other, unmediated by information gatekeepers. If I'd had the slightest idea of what we were in for I'd have unplugged my computer then and there.
posted by jokeefe at 1:51 PM on January 6 [2 favorites]
I really miss the days when I was kind of starry eyed about the internet and the fantastic opportunity it provided for people to talk to each other, unmediated by information gatekeepers. If I'd had the slightest idea of what we were in for I'd have unplugged my computer then and there.
posted by jokeefe at 1:51 PM on January 6 [2 favorites]
under_petticoat_rule: I am not an official voice by any means, but from what I've gathered, the rules against self-linking, while they still stand, are a little more relaxed nowadays.
The prohibition against self-linking, along with the $5 sign-up fee and the restriction from friend-linking, were always to keep Metafilter from becoming a tool of spammers. Both applied mostly to FPPs. If you have a self- or friend-link that's relevant to the thread, then I believe it's always been okay, but extra okay now. So go ahead and link it, there shouldn't be a problem, I believe anyway.
posted by JHarris at 2:35 PM on January 6
The prohibition against self-linking, along with the $5 sign-up fee and the restriction from friend-linking, were always to keep Metafilter from becoming a tool of spammers. Both applied mostly to FPPs. If you have a self- or friend-link that's relevant to the thread, then I believe it's always been okay, but extra okay now. So go ahead and link it, there shouldn't be a problem, I believe anyway.
posted by JHarris at 2:35 PM on January 6
I would like to also speak up in defense of the many -- clumsy, but not hideous! -- websites included that contain mainly text. Several of them are in Italian, which cracks me up because I remember planning a big vacation to Italy (before restaurants tended to just make their Instagram pages their main web presence) when every Italian restaurant with a website had an utterly unusable Flash website. What I wouldn't have given for a slightly ugly, bloglike experience that quickly communicated useful information in text! Flash websites, man. They were not ugly like those linked here, but they were the real hell.
posted by grandiloquiet at 4:03 PM on January 6 [1 favorite]
posted by grandiloquiet at 4:03 PM on January 6 [1 favorite]
That's pretty much all the internet anyone really needs.
posted by mazola at 2:19 PM on January 7 [1 favorite]
posted by mazola at 2:19 PM on January 7 [1 favorite]
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