Folks this is what the web looked like in 1995 (with popup wackamole on about 50% of every site
But this simple website is damn near perfect for it’s purpose
Ding ding, here comes the shit mobile
Basenotes, the perfume forum.
Stack Overflow which is almost 20 years old, and Experts Exchange.
Experts Exchange is still one of my favorite early URL blunders.
expertsexchange.com got inquiries they were not expecting.
Another fun one was The Pen Is Mightier.
penismightier.com didn’t always attract writers.
You’re sitting on a gold mine, Trebek!
Www.Slackware.com At least the OS itself stays relatively current.
Who is still paying the hosting fees for this?
Mark and Sarah King are the web admins and claim to have been designated to stay behind on the away mission to continue to spread their message. Although there’s still some contention around them from ex members that left before they all put on the white suits and Nikes and drank the kool aid.
I vaguely remember a documentary where they were interviewed but can’t recall many specifics. There was also a sub reddit that (supposed) ex-members used to post in and many of them had a bone to pick with Mark and Sarah King about some of their claims.
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Craigslist
If you’re into paragliding:
This used to be the only way you could view the UEFA club rankings. Billion dollar industry, and some random guy named Bert in the Netherlands was the only way you could learn which leagues were eligible for European football. Still superior to any official sites to this day
This is a cultural milestone in humanities history.f
Thank you for reminding me this exists!
This brings me back.
I’d thoroughly learn everything I could before doing a drug, so I could use it responsibly, and then proceed to use it in as reckless and irresponsible fashion as possible.
Ah. To be young again.
Great place for harm reduction and drug education, the world would be a better place if when people googled compounds or drugs google promoted erowid instead of burying them and putting some propaganda anti-drug websites on the front page.
My beloved
Still fully operational and has kept alll the rich features that made it indispensable when it was new.
zombocom! Came here to say the same thing. I still pull it up once or twice a year for inspiration. You can do anything! The unattainable is unknown!
