Wiby – Search Engine for the Classic Web
wiby.me
wiby.me
1) I remember this time, we had delightfully nerdy hobbies back then. Little side projects and no one really cared how it was presented. It reminds me of my Southpark website that I maintained with each episode a summary and some screenshots. I spend quite a bit time on it, with my little counter hitting 1,000 views at some point(maybe I was half of that).
2) the web was not created for mobile. Everything is pretty awful, and not accessible. Reader view is not functional and it hinders absorbing the knowledge from these pages.
But I do feel there was a larger diversity, maybe I’m too locked in to social media and Google.
While I do not dream of this man, I found it fascinating. I don’t know how I’d come across this now. Even more interesting to me is what happens when you get rid of the oldsite part of the url… the new site is so much worse! General blog like template, theoretically more mobile friendly except way less visually attractive and interesting.
Indeed. Sites were sites, and someone's personality (and perhaps designer limitations) showed on it. I think with blogging things changed, people saw more opportunity to become an authority on topics rather than just putting their stuff 'out there' for fun.
And afterwards, the web became horribly centralised.
I can happily read this all day long.
My favourite.
Blocked reddit a few days back. Been looking for more idle exploring like the old days while relaxing, instead of that endless algorithm trawl...