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[–] core@leminal.space 8 points 2 months ago

https://posthog.com/ Its best on desktop or in desktop mode Its basically a recreation of a desktop with icons in the browser. Its super cool to just navigate around in.

[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

The venerable and unexplainable Superbad: https://www.superbad.com/

Ancient wiki-style writing site Everything, older than Wikipedia: https://everything2.com/

The "Earth Edition" of the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: https://h2g2.com/

[–] UninvestedCuriosity@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

https://internet.nl/ that tests a bunch of security related things and gives your server a score. Great for checking a few more boxes.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

turnmeintoagirl.com is a greatwebsite for all those transfems that still dont know they are trans.

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[–] bright_side_@piefed.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Davel23@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago

Back in the late '90s there was a very early Flash-based website for a company called Eye4U. Looking at it today it's nothing special and even a little corny, but at the time it was mind-blowing. It was like nothing else on the web.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOUw2tF7agM

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

http://levitated.net/

It was a bunch of GPL interactive Flash Animations.

Very creative/organic for the time. Pre DotCom crash.

[–] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago
[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

On of Eyezmaze made the Grow games, which are currently still playable here: https://www.eyezmaze.com/

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/20018103

Probably the same response I put when someone else asked this 2 weeks ago:

I wouldn't say nobody, it's got a cult following, but I think even more should try it

https://youraislopbores.me/

Edit: !youraislopboresme@lemmy.blahaj.zone

I just think it's neat, so made a community a few days ago

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[–] fum@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

According to the people in my office nobody knows about archive.org and I think it's pretty cool.

[–] Bilbo@hobbit.world 5 points 2 months ago

http://mymindblewup.com/ for all your cow stacking needs.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

despite being promoted on reddit quite a few times, nobody knows about lemmy. early on when reddit was banning on the explicit subs, some of us fled to an international forum that looks reddit, its relatively unknown, but it was discusisng "illicit stuff" i think it was an obscure canadia/EU sites, so the US cant force it to close down, sadly most of the people dispersed from that community long time ago.

another one as of recently is because of reddit bans, people fled to a forum that discuss how to evade it, and how they were banned from reddit.

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[–] prti@szmer.info 4 points 2 months ago

In case any of you needed it today.

http://eelslap.com/

[–] ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Never seen b3ta mentioned in the wild. The Question Of The Week archive has some belters

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 4 points 2 months ago

This page on how mechanical watches work with really snappy interactive 3d bits that let you "feel" how the parts do their thing. And the dozens of other articles on other topics also on the site

https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

[–] Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

localhost:8000

[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I wouldn't say unknown, as it's a staple of the shortwave and ham radio communities, but websdr.org is a place where people stream software defined radio feeds from around the world. It's not like a traditional internet radio station where you have an audio stream of a single station. You pick an SDR server hosted by a volunteer, and then you're given a frequency input, modulation selection, and waterfall display as though you were listening to an actual shortwave radio.

I know it's well-known because Eastern European stations were swamped during Russia's initial invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

cool websites !coolwebsites@lemmy.ca has quite a lot of them

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

https://acko.net/

Hackery, Math & Design - Steven Wittens

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

gaiaonline.com is still up and running. That was my jam way back in 2011.

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[–] childOfMagenta@jlai.lu 4 points 2 months ago

Every noise at once - https://everynoise.com/

Wikipedia article.

It's still usable, and the Spotify playlists are still there. If you like exploring music styles, this is for you. Warning, time will disappear.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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