Still fully operational and has kept alll the rich features that made it indispensable when it was new.
zombocom! Came here to say the same thing. I still pull it up once or twice a year for inspiration. You can do anything! The unattainable is unknown!
Joe Merrick, fucking legend, has been running this Pokémon database website for at least 15+ years. Basically the same layout, low/no ads, quality info for free. Got a Pokémon-related question? Serebii’s got the answer. Love it 💚
Top site, the Ian Knot must have already saved me cumulative hours of shoelace tying time.
This is a cultural milestone in humanities history.
Great place for harm reduction and drug education, the world would be a better place if when people googled compounds or drugs google promoted erowid instead of burying them and putting some propaganda anti-drug websites on the front page.
My partner works in harm reduction and I introduced them to erowid. It seems it’s not well known outside early century ravers and such?
This brings me back.
I’d thoroughly learn everything I could before doing a drug, so I could use it responsibly, and then proceed to use it in as reckless and irresponsible fashion as possible.
Ah. To be young again.
Well you first try it slowly and carefully until you build confidence and take greater risks.
My beloved
Thank you for reminding me this exists!
About bicycle maintenance.
Legendary fella in bike circles. I was sad when he died.
Speaking of bikes, https://www.bikeforums.net/ is still alive and pretty much unchanged. I wonder if the Helmet Wars are still being waged. LOL, yep.
I found that a few minutes ago on wiby.me, was surprised his family was maintaining his site for so long and had an active fb page for it
Not super niche:
I still use this site almost every day.
Absolutely. I must use it like 5 times a day.
No longer online, but if you like this you should also check out the official Galaxy Quest “fan” site: https://web.archive.org/web/20000819162953/http://www.galaxyquest.com/galaxyquest/
Tough math problems meant to be solved by programming a solution. Nothing has taught me to optimize as well as this site.
Used to load pretty fast at 33.6kbps.
Who is still paying the hosting fees for this?
Mark and Sarah King are the web admins and claim to have been designated to stay behind on the away mission to continue to spread their message. Although there’s still some contention around them from ex members that left before they all put on the white suits, laced up their Nikes, and drank the kool aid.
I vaguely remember a documentary where they were interviewed but can’t recall many specifics. There was also a sub reddit that (supposed) ex-members used to post in and many of them had a bone to pick with Mark and Sarah King about some of their claims.
I guess when you’re all in on crazy… I got nothing to finish that with.
This is what the Internet looked like in 2004. I love this site for both it’s stated purpose, and the nostalgia of the design. Click it if you dare.
This used to be the only way you could view the UEFA club rankings. Billion dollar industry, and some random guy named Bert in the Netherlands was the only way you could learn which leagues were eligible for European football. Still superior to any official sites to this day
Demoscene stuff!
https://www.pouet.net/ and https://scenestream.net/demovibes/
Both are still kicking like it’s 2000 even though there are modern alternatives like https://demozoo.org/ and https://hypr.website/
Thank you! The nostalgia!
It’s not useful in the slightest but I still visit about once a year for a laugh.
Didn’t the guy behind that die? Amazing it’s still running…
Yeah, 10 years ago…
Here’s a documentary about it! https://youtu.be/H7lWCqbgQnU
I haven’t thought about that asshole in a long time.
