An in-browser toybox OS that has a bunch of fun stuff packed into it. I probably haven't seen everything on it even though I've known about it for a few years. Used to host myspace93 which was one of my favorite social sites in high school lmao.
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- aim gay chats... a/s/l? 15/m/ca, you know it
- xanga
- livejournal (incl. rating communities where you had to apply / be hot / cool enough to be allowed in)
- myspace
- friendster
- limewire
- photoshop message boards
- my friends and i would absolutely terrorize the "guestbook" of student-made websites, injecting html images / sounds / videos / effects to piss them off
- xy.com (iykyk)
- hampsterdance
Apr 9, 2024
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This is the only website that I ever truly stumbled upon and kept using. A total relic of the forum era. Anonymous ask and answer, forum, some extremely homemade but fun games, and collaborative pixel art. I have no clue at all how many people use this site, it could be 25 or 3,000. It still feels like a place to go online, and it was really important to me as a forum without the stakes of permanence and publicity that make the modern social internet feel so hostile.
Jan 26, 2024
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https://theuselessweb.com/ and a blunt... less social-panopticon spaces, more dumb fun spaces
Feb 8, 2024
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It's far too easy for me to burn a few hours digging through Wikipedia hyperlinks and trawling through yards of text. It's a very fun way to gain cursory knowledge about possibly obscure topics, and you can find some pretty bizarre stuff if you know where to look.
Nov 29, 2024
I'm admittedly a sucker for a local paper, and that increases tenfold when it shines light on otherwise underreported stories through a progressive lens. In Gainesville, this manifests in The Gainesville Iguana. You can find them at pretty much any record store, library, etc... for free!!!! The ads also expose you to local establishments and groups you might otherwise not have known about. There's a sense of community that emanates from the paper that you don't get in any of your other standard publications.
Nov 27, 2024
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It can give new perspective on what's actually around you. A lot of the time, the veil of the windshield and fiberglass can keep the outside world as more of a backdrop instead of a lived-in space.
Dec 2, 2024