cozy 90s BBS forums, obscure blogs, etc.
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It’s not obscure, but, for me, Wikipedia is the ultimate example of the old internet that still persists today.
Free to use, no account required, ad free, non-corporate, multilingual, heavily biased toward text, simple and utilitarian design. Hyperlinks concatenate relevant pieces of information, which serve as the means to navigate the site. The code is very simple (seriously, view the page source of a wikipiedia article). It’s based on the human desire to learn and share knowledge with others, and has remained resilient to corruption by commercial interests that pervert that desire for monetary gain. It’s a beautiful thing.
Aw i miss when website tracking was only “xxxx users have visited this page” and it was just a simple counter that counted up.
Don’t forget signing the guest list.
How is it that 2 days after this posted no one has said “Craigslist.”
people often say they can find this kind of thing via my employer, Mojeek: https://www.mojeek.com/
Really awesome old school sites. Crazy gifs, web rings, etc.
And pretty much the rest of the FSF and GNU websites.
If you want one that isn’t actually from that time, just feels like it, I’d say https://tildes.net/
