What are your favorite 2000s-Style Websites? | Hacker News Reader

What are your favorite 2000s-Style Websites?

5 pointsmarsknight5 comments

You know, those hand-coded, with sweet GIFs and loaded with information.

Miss those...

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/ -- Sheldon Brown (RIP), Bicycle Technical Information

http://www.dansmc.com/MC_repaircourse.htm -- Dan's Online Motorcycle Repair Course

https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/ and https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/ -- AI philosopher Aaron Sloman's ("disorganised") web pages. Brilliant examples of the charming mess that was so easy to create with 1990s plain html'ing. Impossible to navigate, but I still always want to go back, although I know next to nothing about AI.

Also, his sub-section titles like "Separate file listing main contents of this site" or "CONTENTS LIST (BELOW)" are hilarious in this context.

Oh, okay, this must be the real gem:

"APOLOGIES FOR MESS

This page badly needs reorganisation

My web pages started soon after the internet began, around 1992. Available tools were very primitive for a long time, and later I was too busy to do anything about reorganising the pages. An attempt to get external funding to help reorganise it was unsuccessful.

So here it is (above and below), and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here."

Gotta love 1992 and prof Sloman's sense of humour!

The original Space Jam movie website from 1996 is still alive and well. Definitely a classic!

https://www.spacejam.com/1996/

https://www.lingscars.com

http://home.mcom.com/home/welcome.html

Ling's Cars is a national treasure. A bastion of web design best practices, the work of a genius, no doubt. Really makes me proud to be British.

    n-gate.com

Reply on news.ycombinator.com