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I'm fighting the good fight by keeping my thoroughly embarrassing personal website from the 90s online. Neither the URL nor the pages have changed since 1999!

http://boglin.iwarp.com/

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On one hand, I love finding pristine pre-Web 2.0 websites untouched by modernity. On the other hand, I love finding such sites that are actually being updated semi-regularly while keeping that older aesthetic. Shows that they can still live on into the future.

What are some good examples of web-1.0-style sites (from that era) that are still being updated semi-regularly?

I can find a lot of web-1.0-style sites that are updated regularly, but few originally from that time.

Daniel J. Bernstein's site is one example I remembered off the top of my head: https://cr.yp.to/djb.html

Charles Stross' blog dates to 2006, though that's wading into the 2.0 era:

http://www.antipope.org

I've stumbled upon some rare updates here and then for specific interests. For instance, an early '00s Gundam site on Angelfire that was updated in 2014:

http://www.angelfire.com/anime2/zeonbase/1aindex.html

If you ever need to do any bike repair's the late Sheldon Brown's website is a godsend. Looks like someone is still updating it too!

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/

Most ikiwiki sites are in a similar style, and the original c2 wiki too.

And RMS's website.

I have absolutely no idea why I still keep this site running on my domain. I pulled it together in a fit of jokefullness back in the very early 2000s. It has no relevance today and, on several occasions, I almost got round to taking it down -- but never did. I was a big fan of tables, back in the day ...

The Usenet Poetry Groups "Rogues Gallery" - http://www.rikweb.co.uk/photos/rogues-gallery.html

Even the guestbook still works, just signed it!

Even comes with attempted code injection!

    <scriptnotallowed>alert("hi");</scriptnotallowed>

Killing it with the Netscape editor! <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.61 [en] (WinNT; I) [Netscape]"> ;-p

Solid guest book.

Are there really bots going around filling out random guestbooks on the Internet in 2020?

Yep. You put a form on the Internet that might show a URL to the general public, a bot will fill it out endlessly in the hopes of spewing malware links.

I had a personal website from 2007 that ran for maybe 10 years. Unfortunately I had an open comments section and it was not paginated. Once bots made a half-million comments the site wouldn't load anymore. Decided to just shut it down for good.

I had another WordPress site that was hacked by prescription medicine scammers. I thank bots for ruining the early internet.

Last year I briefly erected a CMS that I imagined had no abuse potential. I got asked by my host to fix it (I nuked it too), because spammers were registering accounts with it... setting the email address as the target of their spam.

I apparently got into trouble here because I was tired of WordPress and decided to try something else... and look where it got me.

But you managed to add google-analytics to the site which launched in 2005. ;-P

Fair enough! I had forgotten about that. The site made it to the #1 spot on HN one day and I must have added it then because I was curious about the traffic.

Come to think of it, I vaguely remember using my web host’s built in editor to do that which felt like it dated back to the 90s as well.

Inhales

Oh yeah, that vintage cynicism. Smells like a nice old book.

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