I got this one and it made me wonder if this was supposed to be a joke. This is the second one it gave me and it made me feel happy. Editing to avoid double-posting. I was curious and went to the...
I got this one and it made me wonder if this was supposed to be a joke.
I know all about the dancing baby meme. I saw the first showing of that episode of Ally McBeal! I did read that article though, and even though I had a completely irrational anger response to...
I know all about the dancing baby meme. I saw the first showing of that episode of Ally McBeal!
I did read that article though, and even though I had a completely irrational anger response to getting that website I had a much stronger anger response when the article linked to this website.
Safari sometimes tints the window to match the background color of the website, it's not the page causing it. I can't even think of a script that could do that. Web 1.0 mostly refers to static...
Safari sometimes tints the window to match the background color of the website, it's not the page causing it. I can't even think of a script that could do that.
Web 1.0 mostly refers to static websites, this page qualifies.
I was served a page of some magnificent photos of dung fungi: https://www.hughsmith.org/dung.htm What an interesting organism: seems to grow tall stems (some of them), presumably to get as far...
What an interesting organism: seems to grow tall stems (some of them), presumably to get as far away from the odor of their origin, but then, being the mushrooms they are, they go and cap themselves with an effluvia-trapping umbrella top. Hah, stupid mushrooms.
There's a metaphor in there, straining to get out.
I actually found this page really neat, but I do have a bit of an obsession with fungi haha A couple of interesting things: The Coprinopsis genus name literally means living on dung which, of...
I actually found this page really neat, but I do have a bit of an obsession with fungi haha
A couple of interesting things:
The Coprinopsis genus name literally means living on dung which, of course, there are quiet a few of those species in that gallery. Some mushrooms that grow on dung range from the infamous magic mushrooms (Psilocybe cubensis) to commercially sold white mushrooms from the grocery store (Agaricus bisporus). There are even some species that are edible but alcohol should be avoided before and after consuming those .
Anyway, sorry for the ramble. I'll end this by saying mushrooms are neat!
Please don't apologize for the ramble; thank you for it! Your mention of Agaricus bisporus reminded me of the term 'Mushroom Treatment', by which the under-ranked are "kept in the dark and fed...
Please don't apologize for the ramble; thank you for it!
Your mention of Agaricus bisporus reminded me of the term 'Mushroom Treatment', by which the under-ranked are "kept in the dark and fed bullshit."
But I take exception to the author's opening designation of the term as "American-English" when the very first citation mentioned in the opening paragraph is :
The earliest occurrence that I have found is from Indecision Hurts Service Morale—‘Kept in the Dark, Fed Nothing But Manure’, published in The Ottawa Journal (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) of Saturday 9th January 1965...
It strikes me as Exceptionialism of the first order to refer to something as an American-English idiom, and then cite a Canadian source as the first occurrence of it.
Cool! Your link eventually lead me to this article, which mentioned: Sounds like it didn't work out, but what a neat thing!
Cool! Your link eventually lead me to this article, which mentioned:
The investigation of the "Coprinus syndrome," although a minor poisoning incident, stimulated numerous research programs because the results were expected to yield a novel drug useful during the treatment of alcoholism.
Sounds like it didn't work out, but what a neat thing!
Oh wow, I haven't seen this in years, I'm amazed that it brought me anywhere I've even been before! I present to you all: The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord
Oh wow, I haven't seen this in years, I'm amazed that it brought me anywhere I've even been before! I present to you all:
Surprise, it sent me to a Catholic fansite. Just like Hypnospace Outlaw, or... There was an old unfiction series of geocities-like pages that together were a fictional story where a bunch of...
Surprise, it sent me to a Catholic fansite. Just like Hypnospace Outlaw, or... There was an old unfiction series of geocities-like pages that together were a fictional story where a bunch of people were commenting on each others' uber-Christian pages about actual angels they'd seen. I forget the name of it. But christ did people want to show Jesus their spinning GIFs.
I found one which was some guys personal page with perfectly ordinary, but endearing pictures of Christmas 98/99/00 and some of his cat. Then I got furries.
I found one which was some guys personal page with perfectly ordinary, but endearing pictures of Christmas 98/99/00 and some of his cat.
Nerd Misfit Resources I have found several others, some really cool reference pages, and one on how to play the recorder. I might give it a try. ~Tildes is great for indepth discussion, but this...
I have found several others, some really cool reference pages, and one on how to play the recorder. I might give it a try.
~Tildes is great for indepth discussion, but this is just fun, and one of the great joys of the internet. Wild-ass diversity of interests that suck you in like a gravity well.
Edit: for less randomness, it's a nice low footprint search engine -- just use https://wiby.me/
I got a German fanpage for Magnum, P.I. I guess this was before Hasselhoff overthrew him as their pop culture Kaiser And if any of you have a Land Rover, I can't reccommend this enough.
I was sent to https://tongue-twister.net/ Being interested in my own language, I checked, and since I found nothing new, I will now curse you with that tongue twister. หมู หมึก กุ้ง หมู หมึก กุ้ง...
I got a Hayao Miyazaki info fan website! And I'd like to share a web 1.0 site I found some time ago: Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information Website It's a glass bottle information...
And I'd like to share a web 1.0 site I found some time ago: Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information Website
It's a glass bottle information website by retired employee of the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM). He made it while he was still an employee and then just continued it while retired. It has photos and information about glass bottles and jars produced in the US and Canada between the late 1700s and 1950s.
Electropaedia, a site with detailed and comprehensive articles about energy technologies and batteries. But, interestingly, MPowerUK seems to be a long-defunct company. Instead a small company...
Electropaedia, a site with detailed and comprehensive articles about energy technologies and batteries.
But, interestingly, MPowerUK seems to be a long-defunct company. Instead a small company called Woodbank Communications Ltd. runs the site on that domain now and changed the name over to "Electropaedia", and has written articles are recently as 2017. They're so small, this is their website which basically tells you to go look at Electropaedia instead (and they inform you that many of their articles there are "several A4 pages long".
So basically this is a knowledge resource that has been preserved and run for decades with the sole goal of being an informative resource. It's cited in a few Wikipedia tables regarding battery types and some articles on energy.
Their "nice messages" page is like a manually updated guestbook, last updated in 2020. But the first page is a neat time capsule of the early Internet! This message is from 1995. Just eight years...
Their "nice messages" page is like a manually updated guestbook, last updated in 2020. But the first page is a neat time capsule of the early Internet! This message is from 1995. Just eight years after Tiffany's one big hit.
I was taking my first tour of the Internet the other day and, lucky for me, I found your Tiffany site. I didn't think anyone else still liked her. I'm 19 and everyone thinks I'm weird for liking the teen star of the 80's.
I got this one and it made me wonder if this was supposed to be a joke.
This is the second one it gave me and it made me feel happy.
Editing to avoid double-posting.
I was curious and went to the root page on that domain and was pleasantly surprised to see that it's an opt-in search engine for web 1.0 content.
Sounds super useful when surfing the web using hopelessly outdated hardware, which I am occasionally tempted to do.
It's more interesting than you'd think…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_baby
I know all about the dancing baby meme. I saw the first showing of that episode of Ally McBeal!
I did read that article though, and even though I had a completely irrational anger response to getting that website I had a much stronger anger response when the article linked to this website.
Haha, this one wins. It’s not even creepy so I’m not sure it really qualifies.
Yeah that one wins
That first one turned my Safari pink. I think it may be less 1.0 than it appears.
Background color is definitely web 1.0
The background color? Sorry, I can't tell if you're joking.
I’m not joking.
This is what it usually looks like.
Safari sometimes tints the window to match the background color of the website, it's not the page causing it. I can't even think of a script that could do that.
Web 1.0 mostly refers to static websites, this page qualifies.
I was served a page of some magnificent photos of dung fungi: https://www.hughsmith.org/dung.htm
What an interesting organism: seems to grow tall stems (some of them), presumably to get as far away from the odor of their origin, but then, being the mushrooms they are, they go and cap themselves with an effluvia-trapping umbrella top. Hah, stupid mushrooms.
There's a metaphor in there, straining to get out.
I actually found this page really neat, but I do have a bit of an obsession with fungi haha
A couple of interesting things:
The Coprinopsis genus name literally means living on dung which, of course, there are quiet a few of those species in that gallery. Some mushrooms that grow on dung range from the infamous magic mushrooms (Psilocybe cubensis) to commercially sold white mushrooms from the grocery store (Agaricus bisporus). There are even some species that are edible but alcohol should be avoided before and after consuming those .
Anyway, sorry for the ramble. I'll end this by saying mushrooms are neat!
Please don't apologize for the ramble; thank you for it!
Your mention of Agaricus bisporus reminded me of the term 'Mushroom Treatment', by which the under-ranked are "kept in the dark and fed bullshit."
This is tangential rambling. Googling the term 'Mushroom Treatment' for this reply gave me this hit: https://wordhistories.net/2020/01/01/mushroom-dark-fed-bullshit/ . An interesting and fun read, to be sure.
But I take exception to the author's opening designation of the term as "American-English" when the very first citation mentioned in the opening paragraph is :
It strikes me as Exceptionialism of the first order to refer to something as an American-English idiom, and then cite a Canadian source as the first occurrence of it.
Cool! Your link eventually lead me to this article, which mentioned:
Sounds like it didn't work out, but what a neat thing!
Heh, like an oldschool StumbleUpon :)
Oh man, I completely forgot about StumbleUpon. I used to spend so much time stumbling! Thanks for reminding me
What the hell, I got a Kevin Sorbo fan page.
He was pretty cool before he I guess lost his mind and became a right wing nut job.
Huh. I got this page that seems to be basically just about the internet itself, with some neat links to check out.
Omg I ended up on Kenny Kramer's website (the inspiration for Kramer on Seinfeld)!
Pity, I missed his Australian tour by 19 years.
Oh boy, I was hoping to find something that trigger nostalgia, not some turtle-like creatures from hell.
No thanks!
This is actually really neat! It's like peak Web 1.0 for me. Just a cool world building project some guy decided to share with the world.
I got the International Slide Rule Museum, which is actually pretty cool!
Thank you for giving me the gift of taquitos.net and its endless supply of snack reviews. Those are humans with a dream.
Oh no, this is a curse. It's just like getting a link to TV Tropes; you'll find yourself browsing there for a long time.
And so many are snacks I just can't get!
Oh gosh this website is great. Down the rabbit hole I go 🐰
Oh wow, I haven't seen this in years, I'm amazed that it brought me anywhere I've even been before! I present to you all:
The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord
Surprise, it sent me to a Catholic fansite. Just like Hypnospace Outlaw, or... There was an old unfiction series of geocities-like pages that together were a fictional story where a bunch of people were commenting on each others' uber-Christian pages about actual angels they'd seen. I forget the name of it. But christ did people want to show Jesus their spinning GIFs.
I found one which was some guys personal page with perfectly ordinary, but endearing pictures of Christmas 98/99/00 and some of his cat.
Then I got furries.
Oooh do you have a link to the Christmas one? It sounds so wholesome!
http://www.leospage.de/
Thank you kind sir!
Posted on April 1, 1997.
Lol… the real RFC 2710 is something totally different.
RFC 1149 is a real thing tho.
Wtf did I just read? This is adorable though.
Number 1
Number 2
Number 3
Love the old jokes in link 3! What a trip
The best part is that file is probably nearly 30 years old and the digs at C++ could have been written yesterday.
Uh, someone likes their milk a little too much...
I don't think this website should belong. The "bathe in my milk" stunt is from 2017.
Nerd Misfit Resources
I have found several others, some really cool reference pages, and one on how to play the recorder. I might give it a try.
~Tildes is great for indepth discussion, but this is just fun, and one of the great joys of the internet. Wild-ass diversity of interests that suck you in like a gravity well.
Edit: for less randomness, it's a nice low footprint search engine -- just use https://wiby.me/
I got a German fanpage for Magnum, P.I. I guess this was before Hasselhoff overthrew him as their pop culture Kaiser
And if any of you have a Land Rover, I can't reccommend this enough.
I was sent to https://tongue-twister.net/
Being interested in my own language, I checked, and since I found nothing new, I will now curse you with that tongue twister.
หมู หมึก กุ้ง
หมู หมึก กุ้ง
หมู หมึก กุ้ง
...
Nice, the first one I got was a website saying Arnold Schwarzenegger was a nazi...
http://bandhmo.org/ is a great throwback.
If I click it enough, maybe I'll find that DBZ power levels geocities site I made.
Found a weird early meme page http://flamesgif.com/archive/ate_my_balls/mr_t.html
I got a Hayao Miyazaki info fan website!
And I'd like to share a web 1.0 site I found some time ago:
Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information Website
It's a glass bottle information website by retired employee of the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM). He made it while he was still an employee and then just continued it while retired. It has photos and information about glass bottles and jars produced in the US and Canada between the late 1700s and 1950s.
Some of these are seriously dank, bravo
Electropaedia, a site with detailed and comprehensive articles about energy technologies and batteries.
But, interestingly, MPowerUK seems to be a long-defunct company. Instead a small company called Woodbank Communications Ltd. runs the site on that domain now and changed the name over to "Electropaedia", and has written articles are recently as 2017. They're so small, this is their website which basically tells you to go look at Electropaedia instead (and they inform you that many of their articles there are "several A4 pages long".
So basically this is a knowledge resource that has been preserved and run for decades with the sole goal of being an informative resource. It's cited in a few Wikipedia tables regarding battery types and some articles on energy.
Their "nice messages" page is like a manually updated guestbook, last updated in 2020. But the first page is a neat time capsule of the early Internet! This message is from 1995. Just eight years after Tiffany's one big hit.