cozy 90s BBS forums, obscure blogs, etc.
It’s not obscure, but, for me, Wikipedia is the ultimate example of the old internet that still persists today.
Free to use, no account required, ad free, non-corporate, multilingual, heavily biased toward text, simple and utilitarian design. Hyperlinks concatenate relevant pieces of information, which serve as the means to navigate the site. The code is very simple (seriously, view the page source of a wikipiedia article). It’s based on the human desire to learn and share knowledge with others, and has remained resilient to corruption by commercial interests that pervert that desire for monetary gain. It’s a beautiful thing.
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/
https://www.spacejam.com/1996/jam.html
I’m pretty sure spacejam.com showed that page up until the sequel supplanted it.
From a time when websites used
<table>
orposition: absolute;
to place elements on the screen. That website is just one big table.I feel that right in the MySpace.
wow nobody mentioned https://www.lingscars.com/
4-ch.net (not to be confused with 4chan) is a 90s BBS that is still online and occasionally active. It’s neat to see posts from the 90s still on the front page.
Ebay
I imagine their source code is such an unmaintainable mess that it’s impossible to modernize
it was written in FORTRAN
That is probably the best website on the internet!
Debian’s website….
hey, thats not fair, they redid it a few years back /s
https://celeryman.alexmeub.com/
(Not really mobile friendly, which holds true to the old school Internet)
TIL Timecube is no longer up. That was my go to site for what the internet used to be like.
aw man that site was like Dr Bronner’s took some digital mushrooms