This takes me back to the glory days of stumbleupon.
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I'm obsessed with the one I got https://www.stinkymeat.net/stinkymeat/day1/
A guy dropped raw meat on a plate in his neighbors lawn and documented the decomposition.
What a ride!
A steak, what appears to be maybe 2lbs of ground beef and a half dozen hotdogs for $7.31....
That would easily cost me $30 today!
As I read, I found myself tilting my phone back more and more to get the photos as out-of-focus as possible while still being able to read. By the time the hot dogs vanished, I found myself unable to continue.
I salute this person’s dedication to scientific discovery, but I could smell those photos through the screen. Nope.
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I went in for seconds and landed here: http://firedrake.org/roger/csarchive/universe/states.htm This is sooo cool and I don't even know what it is! Has anyone heard of Crimson Skies computer game??
Its premise seems to be that America failed. The link took me to the write-ups of what happened to the states. Example: "Montana and Wyoming have largely fragmented. All government is local, and the locals seem determined to keep it that way. The population is completely disgusted with national government and aims to show that local government can perform far better than any distant bureaucracy. Portions of Wyoming and Montana have been claimed by other states, but by and large this is the most lawless and best armed stretch of the West."
Another: "The bulk of Nevada is desert, not even worth the effort of laying claim to. Most of the inhabitants southeast of the Sierra Nevadas are desert air pirates, scrub ranchers, and rattlesnakes."
Not gonna lie...it got me at Air Pirates!
Crimson skies was an awesome dieselpunk arcade plane game. It's owned by Microsoft and the second game was a hit on the Xbox. I still have a copy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_Skies:_High_Road_to_Revenge
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http://www.themostamazingwebsiteontheinternet.com/
Truly the most amazing website on the internet. (Just a heads up, there are some flashing images)
some
A whole website dedicated to alchemy and alchemical accessories. Super neat! https://www.alchemywebsite.com/
This was a fun one to get directed to. Quite a reminder of what reddit used to be. http://amatranscripts.com/
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I got a curated list of shortcuts found on different tracks in Mario Kart 64.
https://davidwonn.kontek.net/mk64.html
Looks like it hasn't been updated since 1997. I kinda wanna track down the author and see if he's kept up with some of the new world record tricks that have been found since then!
That's a bookmark for me! And as a slightly related recommendation, if you like this stuff, you should play Hypnospace Outlaw.
Edit: Since everyone is sharing what they got, the link led me to some cool pixel fonts
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What are the odds that the random website it gave me was my physics study guide in high school? The Hyperphysics website
Oddly this is way more entertaining than reddt was on it's best days.
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Hey OP. Let's make a community out of this. Where we post each site that link took us to.
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Reminds me of the days of StumbleUpon, good times on the internet back then
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I got https://www.geocities.ws/misterralls/index.html and now I want to know how Mike Ralls is doing since the enshitification and whether he continued rock climbing
I found him on LinkedIn. Looks to be happy. No idea if he is still climbing though. Finished his master's degree however!
That's honestly a work of modern art
I got the history of AM radio and then something called Hot Dog Linux lmfao
I got the albino squirrel preservation society. It doesn’t get more random than that. I checked out a couple more and it makes miss the old web of the 90s.
I've realized this true randomness is something that current Web does not offer, all the algorithms are so optimized to keep bringing "what interests you" or "what interests lot of people".
The randomness is so addictive, and perhaps even a bit dangerous.
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS THIS (nsfw)
Woah, I don’t even know what to say. That was something else for sure.
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I ... can't stop clicking
I miss web 1.0
This person is still updating their Mug root beer site. Just updated on 2022.
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This is certainly unexpected: http://n64devkit.square7.ch/
I also ended up in a page for a family with links to webcams and a bunch of old family photos.
That is wild! Like a blend of nostalgia and time travel. When the internet was just free and wild. One of the pages had midi music!
I got sent to some nutjob's site where he tells you all about the superior space technology NASA refuses to use called slingshotting the rockets into space. I say nutjob because most of his site is dedicated to conspiracy theories and holy shit it's still active he's even got a youtube now
More fun and innocent - Speculative biology! Hell yeah weird alien turtle dinosaurs! Actually pretty cool and I think still active? The illustrations are really neat
Also hilariously, I also found a site all about finding interesting web 1.0 pages which even links to what you've linked. It's also full of tips and tricks on how to recreate that web 1.0 jank on your own blog!
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