Still fully operational and has kept alll the rich features that made it indispensable when it was new.
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zombocom! Came here to say the same thing. I still pull it up once or twice a year for inspiration. You can do anything! The unattainable is unknown!
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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Top site, the Ian Knot must have already saved me cumulative hours of shoelace tying time.
About bicycle maintenance.
Legendary fella in bike circles. I was sad when he died.
Speaking of bikes, https://www.bikeforums.net/ is still alive and pretty much unchanged. I wonder if the Helmet Wars are still being waged. LOL, yep.
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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.
gamecopyworld.com
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.
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Who is still paying the hosting fees for this?
Mark and Sarah King are the web admins and claim to have been designated to stay behind on the away mission to continue to spread their message. Although there's still some contention around them from ex members that left before they all put on the white suits, laced up their Nikes, and drank the kool aid.
I vaguely remember a documentary where they were interviewed but can't recall many specifics. There was also a sub reddit that (supposed) ex-members used to post in and many of them had a bone to pick with Mark and Sarah King about some of their claims.
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Ding ding, here comes the shit mobile
I would rather die in a fire than be rescued by this hairy piece of shit
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homestarrunner.com
Home stat runner dot net! It’s dot commmmmm!
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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Tough math problems meant to be solved by programming a solution. Nothing has taught me to optimize as well as this site.
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.
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
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!)
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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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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
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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Craigslist
Demoscene stuff!
https://www.pouet.net/ and https://scenestream.net/demovibes/
Both are still kicking like it's 2000 even though there are modern alternatives like https://demozoo.org/ and https://hypr.website/
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It's not useful in the slightest but I still visit about once a year for a laugh.
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Miniclip . Com ..? 😅
Not sure how long its been around, but you can learn about the dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide here:
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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?
Stack Overflow which is almost 20 years old, and Experts Exchange.
Experts Exchange is still one of my favorite early URL blunders.
expertsexchange.com got inquiries they were not expecting.
Another fun one was The Pen Is Mightier.
penismightier.com didn't always attract writers.
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Great comic that's been going since 2003. Kind of sort of heading towards the end, but it's been doing that for a while now.
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