cozy 90s BBS forums, obscure blogs, etc.
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people often say they can find this kind of thing via my employer, Mojeek: https://www.mojeek.com/
All of them, if you browse with Links.
For better experience I recommend
elinks.
Still in active development.pretty sure links is just a link to elinks now in most distros.
LYNX v2.9.2 released in May 2024.
Not a website, but since you mention BBSes…one thing that would look pretty familiar to a 1990s Internet user would be most of the text-based MUDs, the ancestor of MMORPGs, that are around.
The MUD Connector is still around, and still has a list of active MUDs
While I suspect that dedicated MUDders use dedicated clients, the base protocol is still normally telnet, a protocol that predates Internet Protocol itself.
I still mud on occasion. I used TinyFugue back when i started mudding in 88 or 89 (maybe lot was 89/90). I then used zMUD and later cMUD for years. Now I use MUDlet.
I was there, Gandalf, when we named hosts after your horse and didn’t pronounce the “dot” in “.com”
https://bobistheoilguy.com/ and the oil forums.
Florida’s unemployment website
Really awesome old school sites. Crazy gifs, web rings, etc.
If you want one that isn’t actually from that time, just feels like it, I’d say https://tildes.net/
They are trying to be 90s, but I love it. I thought they had a site counter at some point, but maybe I am misremembering and it was just the guest book.
Not the original, but…
https://www.vernoncoleman.com/
Feels very home made.
Aw i miss when website tracking was only “xxxx users have visited this page” and it was just a simple counter that counted up.
I remember being so proud when I implemented that on my first website.
Yep! I did it for a final project, called DANK WEB. We implemented an airhorn counter. We found out the day before that it just stored the value it saw +1 to the DB so a bad actor could reset the count. Then we easily figured out that we could just reference the DB so we fixed the bad actor part.
We got a 98 on the final. It was the most fun I had on a project in all of college.
THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!
Don’t forget signing the guest list.
I’m on a couple forum sites still (both phpbb I think). I still read fark.com but rarely if ever comment anymore.
