Still fully operational and has kept alll the rich features that made it indispensable when it was new.
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It always looked like you would catch at least one Trojan per download, but it's the real deal if you are looking for cracked game.exes or at least it was back in the day.
Thanks for the memory. I like how there is now a series of pre stripped strippers dancing on the right edge of the screen.
I just opened the page without adblocking -- that brings back even more memories. And yes, the desktop strippers are still a thing, and now they dance on the entire website, not only in an add-window!
My ad blocking is on the router and it didn't block the strippers.
This is a cultural milestone in humanities history.
This brings me back.
I'd thoroughly learn everything I could before doing a drug, so I could use it responsibly, and then proceed to use it in as reckless and irresponsible fashion as possible.
Ah. To be young again.
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Great place for harm reduction and drug education, the world would be a better place if when people googled compounds or drugs google promoted erowid instead of burying them and putting some propaganda anti-drug websites on the front page.
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Joe Merrick, fucking legend, has been running this Pokémon database website for at least 15+ years. Basically the same layout, low/no ads, quality info for free. Got a Pokémon-related question? Serebii’s got the answer. Love it 💚
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homestarrunner.com
Home stat runner dot net! It’s dot commmmmm!
This is what the Internet looked like in 2004. I love this site for both it's stated purpose, and the nostalgia of the design. Click it if you dare.
WebHamster.com
It's not flash anymore and you have to start the music yourself but it's pretty literally the exact thing it was in like 2000.
Ding ding, here comes the shit mobile
I would rather die in a fire than be rescued by this hairy piece of shit
Its honestly the best comment on the internet
It's where I got my cool sigs! Also, it looks pretty much identical to how I remember it. I only found out it was still running a month or two ago.
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Not super niche:
I have a few niche sites. Many of them are dying slowly because, well us denizens are dying one by one. And there is very few that will replace us. The times have changed. Few care about old steam engines anymore. And 3D printing has supplanted machining metal in home work shops. And 3D CAD has replaced the drafting board.
[https://www.modelenginemaker.com/] is an example were us old machinists design and build model steam engines just because.
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Miniclip . Com ..? 😅
A site that started as a forum for one particular class in one old (pre-dates WoW) MMO.
The population dipped a little when Facebook took off then nosedived again 6+ years later when reddit started getting super popular, but there are still a handful and change of us around with old friends dropping in to visit here and there.
http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/locoloco.htm
Most of Douglas Self is a time capsule to when the site was setup but the loco loco section has many of the most wild experimental locomotives you've never seen! Many are early iterations as nobody had yet figured out the meta for building a relatively efficient and successful steam locomotive but there's also diesel and electric designs as well buried in there, as well as late steam ideas that tried to outcompete diesels
Like seriously, what the heck is up with these? (And yes, all had at least one example built!)
thx my neurotypical ass did NOT spend an hour on this.
Super niche, but water-data.com
It lists current and historical water levels, inflow and outflow data for all of the reservoirs in the upper Colorado River basin. It’s all html tables and graphs.
I’v been watching it for at least 20 years and I don’t think it has ever changed.
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So I'm going to toot my own horn here lmao but personally? Mine lol. Sure, technically doesn't precisely fit the bill for 20 years, given it's changed domains, content and the such while I was ironing out my interests in life and future expectations.
But I've had variations of the site for different projects, purposes, employment needs, and more recently the whole starting my own organization thing lol. All in all however, I'd compare it to those 3 generation soups that are a big selling point in family shops throughout the Asiatic, sure nothing of the original exists per se, but the spirit is there.
I do have such a soft spot for the old ascii and plaintext site design, I've never really left the scheme since I first learned html. To me, the more basic a site has made it's web design the more likely I am to trust it. Something about corporate web design just never sits right with me.
Are you gonna post it?
Tough math problems meant to be solved by programming a solution. Nothing has taught me to optimize as well as this site.
This used to be the only way you could view the UEFA club rankings. Billion dollar industry, and some random guy named Bert in the Netherlands was the only way you could learn which leagues were eligible for European football. Still superior to any official sites to this day
Folks this is what the web looked like in 1995 (with popup wackamole on about 50% of every site
But this simple website is damn near perfect for it's purpose
Not sure how long its been around, but you can learn about the dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide here:
The esthetics are +20 years old. While dihydrogen monoxide has been a staple in my dad humor repertoire, this site is a banger.
BTW, the post was downvoted. My guess is that it was one of the dyhidrogen oxide cartels.
Craigslist
Dunno about 20, but Geizhals.de
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