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25 pointsagluszak19 comments

I'm guessing this is supposed to be satire hitting back at people nostalgic for the "good old days".

It falls short in its mission. It's still more usable than Twitter.

It's just a funny website. It's not that deep.

> Our goal is bring you the absolute goodly in really not-awful web sight design! We are setting out to NOT BREAK every single design rule imaginable! HOWEVER - BIG DISCLAIMER - we can't bring back ALL the awesome design stuff from the mid 90s - stuff that's FOR BREAUTIFUL GREAT DESIGN - because we have to basic, fundamental stuff right in order for this interweb to WORK CORRECTLY. Know what I mean?

I must be reading this differently to you, to me this is ready as heavy snark to the "Geocities was the best" crowd. Maybe I'm reading too much into it

It's not that bad, it doesn't even have an accept cookies popup blocking half the screen.

One of my favorite "retro" sites is for this restaurant: https://www.dinostomatopie.com/

My favorite part is that it's still a fully functional modern website that's mobile responsive and everything.

A good candidate for worst website ever was Yvette's Bridal, a bridal shop in Florida. It's long gone but there is a copy here [1].

Modern browsers on modern computers probably won't succeed in capturing the full experience that was the site back in the day, because (1) the MIDI file that the site tries to play probably will just download instead of actually automatically play, and (2) if you play that file it will probably sound way better than it did back then due to way better MIDI instrument implementations.

[1] https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/

Still loads faster than 90% of modern websites. Try again

WOW. This is fantastic. Works for me in desktop Safari!

My only recommendation would be to use more broken HTML, but that would probably be a pain to maintain.

No popup to ask me to allow cookies.

No popup to ask me to sign up for an account.

Not requesting my location from the browser.

According to Chrome's developer tools network tab it loads 9.4 MB of data, which is less than or comparable to many modern landing pages (nytimes.com: 18.2 MB, amazon.com: 10.0 MB).

It's a pretty good first-time visitor experience, I'd say!

I wouldn't say it's the worst, it's pretty snappy, and have a low energy impact. Reddit's spinner loaders can take forever, and your browser occasionally chokes on all the JavaScript needed for the ghastly SPA experience. Unlike Reddit it works on mobile too.

[Alt] -> View -> Page Style -> No Style and the thing is quite readable. No scrolling needed, no background. It works without Javascript. All in all it is quite a pleasant experience compared to many 'modern' 'designs'.

Does not use <blink> tag... Worst. website. ever. ;-)

There used to be a famous site in the 90's documenting such things ...

found it! http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/begin.htm

BTW, I literally found it by asking Metaphor (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33551131) for the worst website ever :)

Hardly. This website actually shows text and images. A web application written in JS with non-HTML HTML web components doesn't show anything at all. You're lucky to get blank gray placeholders.

The text and images on this site are visible without JS enabled, I'd day that alone makes this site better than a lot of others I see.

I miss the old internet.

It's a dead horse, I know, but this site makes me feel reminiscent of better days.

Not even close to as bad as facebook.

Also it makes me nostalgic for YTMND

still loads faster than twitter

needs <map> tags

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