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    # Dear Robot,
    #
    # How does it feel to be a robot?
    #
    # I used to wish I was a robot.
    #
    # And a friend of mine when I was
    # growing up used to think that
    # everyone else was a robot.
    #
    # I thought that might be some sort
    # of signal that he needed counseling.
    #
    # Okay, robot.
    #
    # Talk to  you later.

Am I the only one who is missing the context? I don't get what is the point of this website.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superbad_(website)

Yes, exactly!

Hell.com was in a league of its own in this genre. Those were the days. It's fittingly tragic that it's now reduced to a landing page of ads.

Wow, it sure was. Did anyone expose what it was actually all about, since it claimed to have a membership site or something?

Ah the days of entering in random URLs and seeing what happened...

I was a member, bought back my soul, and had a hell.com email address for years. As aric said, it was a cabal of artists and designers, mostly using Flash. There were discussion boards, spaces to explore, and so on.

The associated site http://www.cygne-noir.com/ is still up, but with just an image. There's probably a login somewhere, but you must know the URL. And http://final.org/ is for sale. But http://www.8081.com/home/ and http://www.medialounge.org/ are still there, and seem much as I recall.

Exploring past those gates into membership is rumored to have led to a cabal of artists and designers in the web's avant-garde scene. We may remember hell.com for what it represented. It was a rabbit hole that unsettled minds, unfurling beyond depths of a web people previously thought they knew, to cause wonder.

It's hell.com. Seems highly appropriate.

http://yyyyyyy.info/ (sound, sometimes NSFW)

http://fauux.neocities.org/Love.html

http://www.kalx.com/ http://wwwwwww.jodi.org/

This was one of the first websites that got me interested in becoming a web developer. Classic web right here

http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/

Working until 3 AM in 1997. My first development job. jodi's page gets sent to me by a friend or from slashdot or word.com or whatever. And this bit of mystery, while DJ Shadow or Tricky or Lycia plays in the background, was completely beautiful and overwhelming to a sleep-deprived me.

Why is Mytho's comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9603201 marked dead? That was the first comment from the user and it appears to be on topic.

Polish only (so you'd likely not be able to appreciate the typos and orthographic errors), early 2000s, but the page itself is worth looking at:

http://www.web_4_all.republika.pl/

Haha. This really reminds me of the very first webpage I ever made, in... 2000 I think? I created a series of images of a lens flare turning a magenta background into a white flash, turned it into an animated gif and used that as the background tile. Eye-watering stuff. I knew I'd finally found what I wanted to do :P

website art?

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http://www.theuselessweb.com/

Aha my go to test site when I'm sick of google.com and example.com.

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