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https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_3.html?m=1
CRPG addict, writes reviews / let's plays for CRPGs. A great resource to learn about lesser known games and it's fun to read.
Especially recommend the spirit of excalibur review where they show off their knowledge on Aethurian legends
Floor 796 — https://floor796.com/
This is triggering habbo hotel nostalgia for me
right? had the same thought immediately. the whole page is art.
I'm old. I was an adult when the internet first started. And this is the coolest thing I've ever seen online. Thanks for sharing!
I didn't recognise the name but when I clicked I recognised it instantly, I'm astounded but happy this is still around
This wins the internet for today.
I’m not saying it’s the coolest, but I made a thing to scratch an itch that others may enjoy. I modeled it after something I found a few decades back that I never found again.
Forgot to mention it is available as a tui too. cargo install rhuidean-studio
I have absolutely no idea what this is or what it's supposed to do but it's incredibly fun to poke at
yo, i know nothing about music but this is cool as fuck
https://windows93.net/ - Some mad lad implemented a custom parody version of Windows 95 that has a bunch of working applications and emulators. Also, check out !internetisawesome@sh.itjust.works for a lot of similar sites.
To figure out what type of adhesive/glue you need to attach x material to y material
It's been around for half a century and nobody knows about it. It's like a world wonder, a modern Library of Alexandria.
Not sure how known these are, but it's similar.
https://librivox.org/ public domain audio books
https://freemusicarchive.org/ free access to open licensed music
IIRC, they'll add new books every year, as older books slowly become Public Domain, so classics like a bunch of Tarzan books (though not all of them, yet) have become available.
Also, for those that don't get the name: Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press that was much better than existing presses (and pretty new to Europe).
Project Gutenberg predates the internet. I still remember how their goal was to give away one trillion ebooks.
Project Gutenberg is still around, so I won't say this is an example of the internet getting worse. But I loathe how it's come to focus on damnable social media like there's nothing else of worth out there. Social media, among other things, filled the air with noise that starved many worthwhile projects of attention.
dimensions.com
It's the weirdest shit I've ever seen. Before I get into it, I want to point out that I've been using this site for years, since before LLMs were a thing, so this is definitely not generated by AI.
It's just like, generic outline drawings of things. Objects, people, places, everything.
So sometimes I like to draw, and I need a model to work from for the pose and the proportions, and this site has a ton of them. Child kicking a ball? Yes. Adult man sitting on a bench? Several options to choose from. Woman carrying a box? Three different poses.
Pointing, pushing, protesting, thinking, vacuuming, raising one's hand to summon a waiter in a restaurant, it's all there.
I'm sure there's some kind of industrial use for it, like for diagrams or blueprints or something, but then we get to the descriptions. Like on the page for people carrying boxes, it says:
People lift boxes either in their personal lives or at work. People lift boxes to move residences. Mailmen or delivery truck drivers lift boxes everyday as part of their job. Some jobs may require their applicants to be able to lift a certain weight of box. When lifting boxes, it is important to lift with your knees instead of your back to prevent back injury.
Then there's always three questions, which they provide answers to. For carrying, those questions are:
What is a carry on bag?
What is carrying capacity?
How much can a horse carry?
Why? Whom is that for?
Under the pictures of elderly people it asks things like "What are the best exercises for maintaining mobility in seniors?" and "How can seniors adapt their homes for safety and accessibility?"
Is this for dolphins? Did a dolphin learn to read English, and they want to understand human society?
I'm struggling to find the weirdest examples, because honestly it's the breadth as well as the depth. Someone clearly put a ton of work into this, and I love it, but I don't understand it.
Alright. I figured it out. This is for aliens trying to understand us.
if the moon were only one pixel
https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
gives a better idea of how ridiculously vast the solar system and outer space actually is--if you turn on "scroll at light speed" it feels slow at these distances
this is my favorite regeneration.org a bunch of issues our world faces with all sorts of different solutions
https://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
A free text-based RPG browser game with a unique sense of absurdist humor.
It's still the same same as it was almost 30 years ago and is an example of both how websites used to look and also shows how much more functional things used to be when implemented well, inspite of modern aesthetic evolutions
Streaming radio from around the world: Radio Garden
Best language lessons short of full immersion: Language Transfer
https://p2r3.github.io/convert/
convert anything to anything, make excel file into pdf, 3d print the bee movie. no more rules
http://192.186.0.168/
Another Version of the Truth ARG by Nine Inch Nails
It's extremely fucking relevant right now.
omnicalculator.com
If they are missing one, I haven't needed it yet.
mediaplate.au
I've been using it as my homepage. It allows you to search Google and other engines without AI summaries, it gives you your IP address and just enough weather info without being obtuse, it loads quickly, and has a timer, stopwatch, scratchpad and conversion table for imperial to metric ect.
It takes you to a random web 1.0 site that has somehow survived all this time.
And it led me to this site, a public voice-mail:
Ferry Halim made Orisinal, a website full of simple and relaxing Flash games that lives again now through various means, I think a combination of HTML5 conversion and Ruffle: https://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/
