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This is sick and I love the yellow

Dang you hate AI so much you didn't even use spell check. 🫡

Yes we remember. It was the times. The good times.

I'm now post Google and anything made in capitalist America. Life is better. I'm volunteering with young people and doing my best to give back to society. I've got an EV and solar. I buy local. My vaccines are up to date, as is my first aid training. Democratic socialism rocks!!!

Webrings - a word I haven't seen in decades :)

Fantastic idea - have just added @dbspringboard.bsky.social!

Gonna make signing up for this a priority 🫡

That makes a lot of sense. Great work. Will submit soon.

I do remember, and so much has disappeared. The group think machine. The tech bro's think AI will be better, not a f-ing chance in hell.

The big issue with bringing back the web as it was is that today many AI agents do not respect any boundaries, robots.txt and otherwise.

Been needing something like this so bad

I remember the event where the Internet started the downhill slide: AOL connected. At that point, any idiot could connect.

I still use gopher too 👀

Perfect color palette.

i miss the dialup sound of my 56k modem 😄

That was the tipping point into deciding to actually do it 😄

ARPANET en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

I hate it when my bullshit is called, but now I'm thinking about it.

... I'm tempted

This is most excellent.

Might I be included? kiblitzing.blogspot.com

More people need to get off Big Tech or even better start self-hosting. It's not super difficult but definitely worth the effort.

At long last

I remember the World Wide Web, because the 'Internet' is a network, and that’s why they are called WEBsites, not Internetsites!

For something very minimalist, Bearblog seems to be the go-to atm bearblog.dev

WEBRINGS!!

I miss Newsgroups. Nothing like a good old-fashioned flame war. Especially when you are the one who steered them into it.

No worries! I'll submit our stuff in the next few days..

Love this! If you ever start something similar for old-fashioned web apps and web-based games, iScored ( iscored.info ) will be there.

I think that's a thing webrings were missing: user-enabled tracking. While on a webring'd site I could click thru to other sites but, if I don't visit often, will forget about them. Having them come into my RSS reader, however, nigh-guarantees I'll at least glance at them.

Yeah, I *loved* when random assholes would add me to random webrings so I couldn't have a usable inbox for days or weeks at a time. Such good times.

oh fuck yes.

Platforms cost money. I'd like someone to offer me ad-free for a subscription, but I'd settle for ad-minimal for a smaller subscription.

If you want a 0 effort solution that works for now, you can look at udm14.org (basically, google's own "web" page). Or set it up in your browser with something like this: gist.github.com/corbindavenp... You'll be surprised how usable google still is when you're not on their "default" search page.

You can get this with Kagi if you’re willing to pay for it. (It has tons of other features, including ugh AI, but you can thankfully turn em off)

As someone who grew up with personal sites, webrings and directories, this is kinda nostalgic. Definitely gonna check out some of the sites listed here at some point.

You should! I also just made a fan artist's link list not long ago, exactly the same reasons. I loved them then for how much it helped me find new people to follow and, once I left Instagram, I was shocked at how hard it was to find people's sites without that account.

Bring back Alta Vista?

I remember what I used before google existed: search.com no joke

Yeah… really!!! You answered a question that woke me up @4am…

Ridge Racer

My dream is to lead everyone that wants to talk about video games back to Gamefaqs. A searchable text walkthrough/faq is better than a YouTube video any day of the week.

Cool! I guessed you didn't plan for us ^^ I also wonder how I'll be able to edit my entry if I ever want to change a url or the logo?

Can’t wait to add mine!

Yay! Best of luck to your endeavor!

Btw, I found out about this project (and you) over on Mastodon. Seems like at least a couple people over there are interested. *Nudge nudge*

Didn't expect to get to tell an AI company to fuck off already

(looks up from brain surgery rocket science) Pinball, you say?

Would be nice to join it with uos.sh :)

Congrats again on the launch! Excited to see people digging in here

Hell yeah, I love this idea!

Where has all my research gone? My lovely rabbit holes on virtually any subject?

Very cool initiative!

I remember early internet. It was kinda ass.

Bookmarked! Great initiative!

I love this!

cc @myrsora.bsky.social

Neocities is mentioned and linked to in my article :)

Bulletin Boards. I had one called The Lion’s Den, ran on a dial up 6 pm to 6 am. Just nerds reaching out. Ah, the 80’s.

Now we just need a bbs forum....

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I miss webrings and creative personal sites that focused on genuine human interests, not optimizing for algorithms. 😮‍💨

🥲 Thanks Maddi!! (You know I'da hit you up if it was a Lee Van Cleef blog directory)

The aspiration is for it grow to hundreds over time, so we’re not creating a combined feed currently. Follow the sites that speak to you 😄

I'm actually old enough to remember when there was no Internet or even personal computers, unless you count calculators that were mechanical. But once there was, things took off fast!

The internet experiment is dead.

Now this sounds promising.

i remember when searching for something using Alta Vista or one of the other "search engines" was a hit or miss, and mostly miss, thing. Google was a spectacular step up and, at the time, well worth the minor product placement. today, i mostly use DuckDuckGo. Google Scholar is also less useful

Yessss. Submitting ASAP

That makes sense. Thank you for the response. Subbed to a few already.