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What are your favourite lesser known websites? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 7 months ago by Drummyralf to c/asklemmy

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I want to see if I can get a spark of the "old internet" back by making a starting page for myself with all kinds of cool websites. But not sure where to start because Google obviously will not work for this.

So... what are some of your favourite websites?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Here's one of my long time favorites:

http://textfiles.com/

[–] Drummyralf 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What a treasure trove! At first glance I love all the ASCII art. But some of the texts feel like you're browsing some old Reddit/4chan posts. Will take me a while to get through all the gems!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I am really happy that you appreciate it. There is so much to explore there, be careful because it's easy to lose a lot of time browsing the files. Lol

I love reading about all the old school hacking and shit. There's some genuine 'anarchist cookbook' type of stuff in there. Probably don't try any of that shit, but it's fun to read about none the less.

[–] Rolando 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Probably don’t try any of that shit,

Now you tell me, I just spent the last couple hours trying to get free CompuServe access.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

🤣