OldWeb

completely redesigned and supplemented editor, compatible with IE 5.5 or 6, which means it works fine in Windows 95 or 98 or 2000 or 10 or... watever )))

for the site were used:

There's been a few minor updates, but it's largely unchanged since 2009. If you want to see a horror show, view page source for a taste of how bad web dev used to be. Bunch of autogenerated garbage from Microsoft Publisher 11 like this:

Way, way back when the internet was still being charted as if it was some mysterious country, one of my favorite things to do was just to spend a solid chunk of time on StumbleUpon -- bouncing from random website to random website. It was such a useful tool for just finding niche sites, some of which I still use to this day.

Look at it all. The low-res background that doesn't scale right. All the styled UI as just tables of images. The awkward typography.

Two comments in particular stand out:

All sorts in here, emulators, software, personal sites etc.

This site is a huge collection of simulation applets for analog circuit, filters, acoustics, general harmonic stuff, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, linear algebra, and so on.

This one is Ray Wilson's DIY synthesizer website.

This is the website of Gene Slover (now deceased). He was a firecontrolman in the navy back in the day. Now I don't care about the navy, nor do I really care about Gene. What I do care about is *mechanical computers.*

This section of the Project Rho site is one that I have actually used for real projects in the past. The section gives guidelines for creating nomograms, or alignment charts.

This site has been around forever. It gained popularity for a while when the Google search algorithm had it ranking highly for a lot of terms. That went away for some unknown reason with an algorithm update, but the site is still plugging along, its users cranking out quality posts every single day.

An old school vibe with lots of links to random useless websites.

I haven't had a good look at this one, but there's tons of links in here.

A collection of links on a funky retro looking site. Some of the links are link pages themselves so there's tons of stuff here to check out.

This is a page absolutely full of interesting sites, you could spend hours trawling through all of the links and the subsequent links you find on each site.

I put together a list of onramps to the old web. Very excited to find this community so that maybe I can grow my list!

This blog was posted by its creator under a lemmy post discussing the issues with modern websites. It is delightfully minimalist, and the post I linked is a call to action to return the early web. As well, they have some interesting stuff linked on their site.

This is a site I saw linked on Xer0's original post(https://beehaw.org/post/426067). It seems like a very fun timesink and I love the colorful icons and ui.

I saw this site recommended by other users looking for gaming-related news, and for me, one without a lot of the excessive ads and commercialization of game journalism.