One of my favorite sites: https://www.windows93.net/
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There is also this one; it's an actual genuine Windows 95 running on WASM in your browser
Running Win95 on a cell phone.
Damn thats wild! I remember I wished I could run Windows on a phone back in 00-ish instead of those crappy, brand-specific phone OS's. What else was I gonna use a phone for, its not like I had anyone to call. Now I can.
Still nobody to call, though...
ok this is cool 
I had to find the author: http://jankenpopp.com/ and he is so creative and skilled. wonderful stuff, and great link, thanks!
This blog is incredible:
https://ciechanow.ski/archives/
There aren't many articles, but the ones that exist have been crafted with EXTREME attention to detail and DELIGHTFULLY interactive animations. I would recommend the mechanical watch and internal combustion engine posts specifically to start. If you like knowing how things work, this guys blog scratches that itch better than like, anything else I have found for the specific things he makes posts about. Have fun, be prepared to kill a few hours.
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https://cari.institute/aesthetics
Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute, it's a neat website showing design trends in advertising, packaging, print, etc throughout the years.
Yeah, this is dope. Thanks
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I love blogs, specially from people with niche interests and experiences. I follow them via RSS. So that's what I read outside of Lemmy / Reddit / Mastodon.
Recently I've been following the blog written by an IT guy working in a research station in Antarctica (also has a great domain name).
ahah wow thanks! how did you find it? the post about south pole signage is kinda hilarious https://brr.fyi/posts/south-pole-signage
I subscribe to the top submissions on hacker news via RSS: https://hnrss.github.io/
It's 99% tech, but every once in a while you get an interesting post from a blog about something else. I then subscribe directly to the blogs I want to keep reading.
I've just been slowly curating my RSS feed for years. I like the high signal-to-noise ratio it provides me.
Thanks for posting this! Youβve given me a new rabbit hole to go down
I might be boring here, but outside of Lemmy, none of the websites I frequent are niche.
YouTube, Wikipedia, Fanfiction.net, Archive of Our Own, MAL, sci-hub, eBay, TV Tropes, Reddit (though I only read now, I don't participate in the discussions since July).
fuck yeah fanfiction.net and Tv Tropes! Loved those back in the day.
Someone posted a link to this site the other day and now I'm hooked https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/
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Simon Tatham's Puzzle Collection. Just a bunch of cool puzzles for wasting time. No ads or bells and whistles.
You can download them or just play in the browser. Someone also made the collection into an Android app, which I usually use.
It's German but this guy has been blogging since the beginning of time http://blog.fefe.de/
https://gurushots.com/ photography challenges, quite fun.
https://flickr.com/ photography community
I translated some stuff in that German blog. It's kinda wild, vaccination damage and the KGB mixed with more far right conspiracy theories and then just general normal stuff.
It can be amusing, I used to read there regularly too, but taking it too seriously is a bad idea.
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I still use Reddit, just not on my phone since their app suck and is full of ads.
free-mp3-download.net for stealing FLACs from Deezer.
frogfind.com - search engine (or rather proxy) for vintage computers
gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/world is a cool directory of gopher links. There's also Veronica-2 search engine. You'll need a browser that supports gopher protocol, from the top of my head I can name bombadillo, lynx and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or lower.
WWW Images starter packs:
https://www.tau.ac.il/images/Images.html
http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/images/Images.html
http://www.it.uu.se/pics/
Meteor M-N2-3 satellite LRPT operational status
rtl-sdr.com - RTL-SDR blog. I just found they released RTL-SDRv4 π² and it's even cheaper than previous model!
Direct audio stream list of my favorite internet radios
Radio rock:
http://stream.bauermedia.sk/rock-hi.mp3
http://stream.bauermedia.sk/rock-lo.mp3
Radio1:
http://play.global.audio/radio1.aac 48kbps
http://play.global.audio/radio1.ogg
http://play.global.audio/radio1.opus
http://play.global.audio/radio1128 128kbps
http://play.global.audio/radio164 48kbps
http://play.global.audio/radio1_low.ogg
http://play.global.audio/radio1hi.aac 128kbps
https://playerservices.streamtheworld.com/api/livestream-redirect/RADIO_1AAC_L.aac
https://playerservices.streamtheworld.com/api/livestream-redirect/RADIO_1AAC_H.aac
aNONradio:
http://anonradio.net:8000/anonradio
KGRG:
https://www.ophanim.net:8444/s/7090
telnet telehack.com - There's eliza, an early AI chatbot made in 1966. AI chatbots aren't such a new thing.
Love those radio rock stations, thanks for sharing those!
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Every mon/wed/fri I open tabs of some webcomics I follow:
I've followed a lot of other comics, but these have been updated VERY damn reliably for a long time.
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There used to be this plugin and site called something like "Stumble Upon". You click on the big Stumble button and it takes you to a random place on the WWW based on your interests. It was awesome. I miss it. Anyone know something similar that still works?
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Hackaday.com is my favourite blog on the Internet and I've been reading it for over a decade, it never gets boring.
https://novelai.net
It's an AI writing tool for stories. I got about half a dozen stories in progress and switch between them whenever one is starting to get stale.
It's nothing fancy, and I'm not a great writer. But I love exploring new worlds this way, building the lore as I go along.
There are no limits. Iβve brought up before I hold the world record for the most websites having signed up for. I canβt think of a single website out of thousands Iβm not on, otherwise Iβd sign up.
Let me get my gay porn sites out. π
To be fair, my family is very LGBT-heavy, and I was questioning my sexuality at one point.
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Did you ever fall victim to scams doing this?
Very rarely someone could argue that this occurred. I'm not a native to my area so I rely a lot on the bank logins of my brother for premium purchases, and I do so scarcely, so that much has almost never been an issue as a side effect. One thing I will say is that, if you don't like unpleasant surprises, don't sign up for anything belonging to EA. Yahoo was a bummer too.
Yahoo really just rekted some shit online back in the day. I'm not surprised lol
Do you really? How do you go about proving that kind of thing?
A combination of linking all my profiles together, leaving traces of myself on each website (including selfies, intricate life details, my artstyle, vocaroo links, cryptography since I found subtle ways like this to cue I've been in certain places, etc.) being able to be quizzed on every website, and a wiki page. There was a world record wiki page (and a companion non-wiki page) where I was registered with the world record, though I'm trying to find it again, Google's algorithm change this year has thrown Google searching into a bit of uncertainty. Or it may have been deleted.
One thing that should be noted is, when it comes to world records, sometimes the definitions of a feat have no choice but to be looser than how society sees that feat. For example, we often think of web accounts as being one and the same with the person who made it and use it and always think of it equating to exactly one person, but the world record system for the world record will remind the reader that it's difficult to see an account as anything more than another inanimate object, so it moreso defines it by account co-identification than it does going to said person to have them log onto all the accounts to prove themselves (though for most websites I can do that on a good day), since there is nothing written in stone that access to something is exclusive to the person who is "seen" as owning it. It's also not one of those stereotypical world records, as in the world record system (Guinness or otherwise) might have a list of world records that everyone might think of when it comes to world records (such as deepest descent, strongest thing ever pulled, etc.) and then there are world records they have stored away somewhere (because they can) but at the same time not in the spotlight (such as person with the most penpals, person with the most As Seen On TV products, etc.), although the record definitely exists and can be proven.
I love the orange and black website!!!!!
Amazing library of customizable ambient noises and soundscapes, pretty much all recorded and developed by one guy. I think βRain on a Tentβ is the best rain track available on the internet.
sovietsteeds.com It's a really niche forum that was made in the distant past and then stubbornly refused to change, much like the motorcycles they ride.
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