what are some cool websites you guys remember on the old "web 1.0". kind of feeling nostalgic and remembering fan sites dedicated to games or anime and shitty comics. peak soul. the website version of the games we got until like 2006 or so.
>Going on Neocities and having to avoid the landmine spread of websites run by pride-flag-waving Marxist babyfuckers who can’t speak English
>>736218871There's a search engine for Web 1.0. Click "surprise me" to discover some cool website that is STILL up.https://wiby.me/
>>736219307Cool feature.I remember my friend in elementary found out that white house.com was porn. Downloaded some asian chick with blue hair but never found out who it was.
>>736219307might look into it, do you think i should use a virtual machine to randomly navigate these old pages? using geocities restorativeland (a geocities archive) ive had connections get blocked like 5 times on old websites with notifications about trojans and shit. where its blocking a domain from some random website.id like to think windows after 2020 (honestly 2010) would be impenetrable to this old shit but microshit seems incompetent.
Just a reminder but you can still somewhat "go back">Theme your Windows/Linux to 9x,Luna,Aero>Neocities>Forums still around>DXVK, D7VK, nGlide, wined3d>DOSBox-X>Audacious supports winamp skins>>736218871Nothing really. I mean old design was obviously better and there were no normies but Steam Forums and Discord have bigger traffic, especially for tech support, which is good. There were some old local Half-Life and CSS sites with forums and stuff but they were already borderline dead even back then (you had to wait days for an answer in forum). The best sites are still around like swfchan, vogons, duke4 etc... also forums in general.
>>736219204It's fucking insane how they basically coopted that entire service, either that or the host has a huge troon fetish because literally 90% of the sites on the featured page are some 00's era 'girlcore' website run by a psycho tranny. It's literally https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMgWnCMAigw all the way down.
>>736218871Concerned was pretty great, a funny Half-Life 2 parody that tried to explain all the weird and stupid shit that happened in HL2 as one guy ahead of Freeman making a desperate bid for Combine "promotion" and fucking everything up along the way.
>>736219650Yeah, I'd be careful around those old websites, there was practically no security back then, though I'm sure modern browsers have protection against those old trojans and scripts. Just don't download any executables.
>>736219941Too late I just downloaded some guys homemade midi metal album.
>>736219987Music and pictures are fine, they can't contain a virus. Just don't download any EXE/BAT/CMD files.
https://www.cameronsworld.net/
>>736219751a lot of my buddies are moving towards linux, do you have one that would be good for a noob? i installed cinnamon years back as an exercise but never used it. just got it working off a usb drive
There was a web sight I found as a teen, where somebody described the end of the universe, and how random things would eventually just start appearing from the void. Idk what the site was, and now as a super PHD in giga science, I'd like to double check the theories, but 'tis nowhere to be found.
>>736219307is there anything left that isn't proto-schizoid material?
I was born in 1999
>>736219941>>736219987funny thing is that my browser keeps autodownloading mid. files and im trying to find a way to disable any auto downloads. midi is based though. i rememebr around 2000-2003 downloading midi versions of radio songs i liked because it was the best i could get.
>>736218871There was some reporter named sherman skolnick i used to read
>>736220165its over
>>736219307Sweet, I have now learned about the "$39 experiment" where a guy sent letters to companies asking for free stuff and got back $272 worth of stuff
>>736220116Desktop Environment? KDE Plasma. It's like general Windows and has builtin theme browser. It's noob friendly and you can make it look however you want. There are global themes for the mainstream (XP, 9x, Aero) stuff.
>>736219782im drunk right now and am having a lot of trouble understanding what the fuck this isbut i can tell this is art.
>>736220313i mean a base linux distro- not a skin. windows has been shit since windows 8. is a desktop environment the same thing? or something else?
https://tekzoned.com/this is still alive somehow even though nothing works cause its all flash
>>736220183If you're a MIDI enthusiast do yourself a favor and get a Roland Sound Canvas, don't settle for emulated sound. Best investment I ever made in my life.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA6Xtyb1__g
For me it's anime shrines.
>>736220135he's right you know
>>736220165Stop that
phrack.orgi found it through an old web thread on /g/
>>736220135i couldnt even finish the first paragraph before realizing this person was based, theyre probably here now.
>>736220673Imagine like if Linux is just the black command line and Desktop Environments are the visual stuff. That says most distros "look the same" but they can be different by update way, schedule and stuff. Probably go for CatchyOS. It's based on Arch Linux (I use Arch btw) but made it braindead easy.
>>736220135KWAb>ugh I can't get up in the morning
>>736220975>Desktop Environments are the visual stufdo you mean a GUI?i highly doubt under the hood all linux distros are the same which is why im asking for the one most noob friendly since ive been on windows since XP in 2001.i dont know jack about this stuff so appreciate the tips. appreciated.
>intershitpfeh....
>>736221308if your argument is that old published game magazines were based, youre right. what is this? egm?
>>736219751>you can still somewhat "go back"just install PCem86 and select pentium2 with voodoo and windows 95
>>736219307>https://www.earth2150.com/Neat
>>736219307ow maj gaad
>>736221308It was a different time
>>736220790listened to like half of this really cool.
>>736221163Linux Mint and Ubutnu are pretty beginner friendly. They have GUI apps that help out with performing many CLI commands installed by default and are very well documented (via Archwiki, but the utilities that run on Linux will run on all Linux versions).
>>736221574I remember going there on a library computer in like 2001 and it still has the same "more screenshots coming soon" message
>>736220123are you thinking of exit mundi?
>>736218871GameSpy's Planet Network was this huge hub of pretty much every game and system, with its own dedicated forums. They encouraged you to send in cool screenshots that the editor would share, along with whatever news was going on in the community. You would be able to go on there and get help with any issue you were having with the game, find mods, or find other websites that were dedicated to mods, all through the homepage that was updated daily or near daily. I miss the whole Internet at this time in general, because there were soooo many fan sites it was hard to keep track. If your game had a competitive multiplayer community, you'd be able to find clan sites, sites that would keep track of stats and ladders like ClanBase, and sites where you could share and watch frag movies. I think the thing that's most important to explain is that the Internet now actually feels smaller, despite there being way more people online than 20-25 years ago. Back then, you could click on affiliate links in the sidebar of smaller sites and lose hours just hopping from one to the other, because each site would gladly display other sites they through were cool, and so it all felt like a giant web despite the decentralization.
>>736218871Hypnospace Outlaw is a game full of "Web1.0" nostalgia. Would recommend if you're into that sort of thing.
>>736220165why
>>736218871I remember it all being culturally purged while Twitter is archived in the Library of Congress.
>>736219307I tried using it to look for maps that were made for Half Life 1 Multiplayer Mods like Vampire Slayer, Wizard Wars, Action Half Life, Opera and the Specialists but no luck. I managed to find a Vampire Slayer level archive using Yandex though but it had been taken down still I managed to contact the owner to put it back up but a several of the levels were missing key WADs.
>tfw Angelfire is down right when I find a fucking sprite comic I've been trying to find for ages
Back circa 2000 I came across a DBZ fansite that had roms of SNES DBZ games. But it also had a page dedicated to Chrono Trigger and that was how I was introduced to the game since it was never released here. Then I got to be the guy who introduced that game to my circle of friends which was cool.
>>736220135This guy is 100% right and 100% based. Gaylight slavings is faggot shit.
>>736229359The most accessible romsites back in the days were the ones that had the host's like 4-5 favorite games on it, and a midi of MKR's boss battle theme playing.
>>736227407I'm surprised to see someone else talking about this, I thought I was alone in my thoughts in regards to what's going on with old internet / old society being rewritten by revisionists / history rewriters. I archive a lot of the old internet because of their malicious behavior, they want everyone to use twitter and plebbit and nothing else, they despise personalized blog websites. I theorize it's marxist tactics, demorilize and take away everyone's individuality so they are better workers. Hobby infiltrators work as their pawns trying to spread and rewrite internet and real life culture. They claim you have to be left wing to be a goth, furry, a scene kid, etc when it was never about politics. Keep archiving, anons. The old world is the true world, it cannot die and will never die just like our eternal souls. I laugh in the face of these corruptionists.
I just want to be happy again /v/.
https://www.supercoolzone.com/
TRSrocking dot com for pokemon games glitch discussions and discovery. I was really into pokemon glitches back then.
>>736229930mew truck
>>736218871http://www.kobash.com/tetris/tetris.html
