I really got sick of social media and doomscrolling my time away.
So I browsed the web and all the big media sites were nothing but boring. I kept surfing and stumbled upon something that was new to me. I started digging deeper and kept exploring.
I found it really relaxing to browse the old web. There are so many personal homepages, many of them are just art, beautiful to watch. Relaxing to discover. Some websites feel like you are playing a game, some of them have eastereggs and a lore. You will experience music, pixel art, animations. Some websites take you back to Windows 95 times, some take you back to the year 2000. A lot of these sites are made with much love and very much worth to discover.
Because you can't find these sites on mayor search engines, the best way to get in touch with the oldweb is is through webrings.
Thats why I will attach a link to a recently updated List of webrings that are still active today and whose member sites are still online: https://tuffgong.nekoweb.org/webring-list.html
You can browse the old web from there on.
Let me know about your findings and how you liked it.
Warning: Some sites on the old web contain flashy graphics.
> My list features only webrings that have active members and which are actively maintained by their admins.
It looks like the criteria above implies https. AFAICT, browsers either block or put up scary warnings on http sites, effectively burying much of the "old web" even if those sites are harmless to browse.
These sites work fine with https enabled. I'm browsing through some webrings right now and the sites I have visited so far all have SSL enabled so there doesn't seem to be a problem with modern browsers
I've been on these sites with their quirky, old aesthetics before. I lost track of this part of the web so your link to these webrings really comes in handy.
I really got sick of social media and doomscrolling my time away.
So I browsed the web and all the big media sites were nothing but boring. I kept surfing and stumbled upon something that was new to me. I started digging deeper and kept exploring.
I found it really relaxing to browse the old web. There are so many personal homepages, many of them are just art, beautiful to watch. Relaxing to discover. Some websites feel like you are playing a game, some of them have eastereggs and a lore. You will experience music, pixel art, animations. Some websites take you back to Windows 95 times, some take you back to the year 2000. A lot of these sites are made with much love and very much worth to discover.
Because you can't find these sites on mayor search engines, the best way to get in touch with the oldweb is is through webrings.
Thats why I will attach a link to a recently updated List of webrings that are still active today and whose member sites are still online: https://tuffgong.nekoweb.org/webring-list.html
You can browse the old web from there on.
Let me know about your findings and how you liked it.
Warning: Some sites on the old web contain flashy graphics.
> My list features only webrings that have active members and which are actively maintained by their admins.
It looks like the criteria above implies https. AFAICT, browsers either block or put up scary warnings on http sites, effectively burying much of the "old web" even if those sites are harmless to browse.
These sites work fine with https enabled. I'm browsing through some webrings right now and the sites I have visited so far all have SSL enabled so there doesn't seem to be a problem with modern browsers
Thanks for reminding me.
I've been on these sites with their quirky, old aesthetics before. I lost track of this part of the web so your link to these webrings really comes in handy.
Will surf the old web tonight