It takes you to a random web 1.0 site that has somehow survived all this time.
And it led me to this site, a public voice-mail:
This is amazing, it took me to a US battleship website and then enrons website
A good chuck of these sites are autism special interest sites.
Hey, would you like every single schematic of Chernobyl with a through explanation? Sites like that are floating around in there.
And then a website about proving the existence of sea monsters…
According to the people in my office nobody knows about archive.org and I think it’s pretty cool.
This page on how mechanical watches work with really snappy interactive 3d bits that let you “feel” how the parts do their thing. And the dozens of other articles on other topics also on the site
Write collaboratively without account or registration. Just start a pad and send the link to your collaborators.
This is actually an instance of etherpad, which you can self host. Still cool
https://www.parapluesch.de/whiskystore/test.htm
(don’t mind the URL, I don’t know, I can’t tell you why, but it leads to the game)
PARAPLÜSCH! The psyciatry ward for abused cuddlytoys!! It’s such a sweet and at the same time disturbing game (I recommend playing on PC, not smartphone)
(You can select a number of languages, though it is originally german)
If you’re a Tool fan, there is 20+ years of blog about them, he recently “stopped updating” it, but it’s a treasure trove of history on the band: https://toolshed.down.net/
Best I can do is https://piclog.blue/
https://www.merzo.net/main.htm
A Museum of Speculative Fiction inspired Spaceships
Sadly it is no longer being updated.
Its an LLM trained exclusively on the Epstein files, 9/11 archive and publicly available FBI documents. Every answer comes with like 10-20 Epstein filer links to prove or disprove a theory. Their free option is shit, but for like 20$ a month, it helps me make sense of all the videos out there.
Floor 796 — https://floor796.com/
This is amazing!
I’m old. I was an adult when the internet first started. And this is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen online. Thanks for sharing!
You’re welcome! I was an older teenager when the worldwide web started taking off in '94 — is that what you mean? A lot of people associate the Internet and the WWW, but IIRC the first email was sent in the 1960s. I’m getting old. Sometimes I feel old, sometimes I feel young. As a gamer, I try to stay current with tech, but while I like some modern games, I’m having so much fun catching up on 360/PS3 and 3ds era gaming. Like my wife got Animal Crossing for the Switch, but I’m enjoying the 3ds version more. It’s a bit older, a bit uglier, my girl has hair like Claire/Molly Ringwald in Breakfast Club, but it’s okay, I’ll unlock the hair salon eventually.
This is triggering habbo hotel nostalgia for me
right? had the same thought immediately. the whole page is art.
I didn’t recognise the name but when I clicked I recognised it instantly, I’m astounded but happy this is still around
This wins the internet for today.
Did you throw popcorn into the black hole?
Of course!
Haha, that’s so bizarre but wild and fascinating.
Book marked 😘
Noooo don’t look at the NSFW camera in the shower!!!
Yo that techno Viking is spot on. Nailed the point and the moves.
Thanks for this. That site’s dope.
Neat!
Found Marvin, inspector gadget, r2d2, Wall-e, and many more.
I think there’s a guide. I follow them on Telegram and they post whenever they add something (with a direct link to the coordinates). Lately he’s been working on the flea market area with Link and Zelda.
Found Waldo!!
Thanks for reminding me about this – such an astounding work of art.
Poor Gimli…
this is so cool
Other than everyone reading this, nobody really knows about Lemmy.
lemmy is really really cool.
also piefed
piefed? never heard of it
It’s just a PieFed clone. 🙃
I’m not saying it’s the coolest, but I made a thing to scratch an itch that others may enjoy. I modeled it after something I found a few decades back that I never found again.
Forgot to mention it is available as a tui too.
cargo install rhuidean-studioI have absolutely no idea what this is or what it’s supposed to do but it’s incredibly fun to poke at
Kinda reminds me of strudel repl
It’s like a completely different way to create music (even though, idk if OP intended it to be for that)
yo, i know nothing about music but this is cool as fuck
That was fun! 😁
Perfect 4th with linear velocity starts to cascade before they all reconverge with a big bleep. That was my favorite.
The craving of that big bleep is what got me to finally do this. It is so satisfying when they all converge. With multiple subdivisions and the convergence lines on, it is even better.
Oh that is cool! It makes stars and trippy fan blade patterns. It’s neat you can share the link like that to share the patterns too.
It’s like a kaleidoscope that also works for the ears. 😁
Okay that’s ridiculously cool lol
This is fun!
Amazing, thanks 🙏🙏🙏
That’s so cool! The name is a nice reference, too
nice! gave you a star on gh :)
https://windows93.net/ - Some mad lad implemented a custom parody version of Windows 95 that has a bunch of working applications and emulators. Also, check out !internetisawesome@sh.itjust.works for a lot of similar sites.
This used to have an integrated Myspace clone. It was so cool and I miss it dearly. My page
I have loads of questions, like why does this exist, and why is there a fucking karaoke player with licensed tracks on this parody?
Did you not see the “that no one knows about” part of the question?
I didn’t know this one…
Learn how a computer works by building your own from scratch.
Saving this for later! As someone who knows more about software than hardware, this sounds interesting!
I tried it but the game is kind of confusing cause it uses relays instead of transistors. I think it’s more frustrating and would only discourage potential learners.
A better way to get a solid grasp on low-level hardware logic is to just build an eight-bit breadboard computer. Here’s a tutorial: https://eater.net/8bit
I’m working on it now. I’ve only done the first module so far and I’ve already learned so much.
That is only the very first level. Afterwards it switches to gates.
Good to know. I think once I learn how the relays compare to transistors, I can probably figure out the first level.
I just tried it and it’s so much harder to understand than just playing around with transistors on a breadboard.
Like, I can easily make a nand gate with a couple NPNs and a PNP. But I couldn’t figure out what they wanted me to do with those relays, so I didn’t get past the first task.
Sure, building your own breadboard computer is much better than playing with some website… However transistors and relays are kind of similar in function, they both gate whether current flows.
If you are already familiar with transistors, then I agree those are a simpler introduction, however most regular people don’t know anything about a transistor, and they seem a little bit magical.
A relay however can be grasped by most people just by looking at it in operation. Magnet attracts… Electromagnets only attracts when powered… wire doesn’t conduct when not connected… Wire does conduct when connected… Electromagnet can pull or push wire to either connect or disconnect…
If you want the solution for the first task (building a nand gate with relays), you can see my solution here:
spoiler
Okay, without reading the spoiler:
Does the inductor lead function like the switch on the transistor?
And the two relays: default (on) and default (off): is default (on) like the PNP transistor and default (off) like the NPN?
I think with those two bits of information, I can figure it out. But last night I didn’t have the patience to figure it out by trial and error.
You got it 😉
I went through all the units. They were interesting, and I definitely learned a bunch. I probably won’t remember it all right away, but I at least have a better idea of the overall picture. It’ll be reinforced as I continue my breadboard project, but also supports my theoretical understanding of that project. So I’d say it was worth it.
Imagine my surprise when I got to the end and realized there are multiple paths that branch off from there into new units 😱
It seems the learning shall continue…
Good luck with all the learning 😉 sounds like a fun journey!
Considerably more user friendly than Escape from Robotropolis was for me.
