Spyke
Dozzi92reply
lemmy.world

Same. I checked on PC and developed epilepsy at 38. Great website.

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Oh... this seizure of a site. Good thing I turned bluetooth off so I wouldn't throw my headphones at the wall.

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Dozzi92reply
lemmy.world

Damn, Zombocom. I remember taking a Photoshop class in highschool, probably 2004 or so, and we were able to sync up all like 35 computers to play Zombocom at the same time. It was a really wonderful thing to hear, Zombocom in 70.0, crappy computer speaker quality.

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ripcordreply
lemmy.world

The thing that people wouldn't get today is that zombocom was a spoof site of other stuff that was out there that was actually kind of like this. People - usually someone trying to ride the emerging .com wave - would barf up these incomplete early web sites with promises that absolutely would never be delivered.

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Would the modern version of this be a parody AI? Because honestly between this and AI there's quite a parallel.

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The thing that people wouldn't get today is that zombocom was a spoof site of other stuff that was out there that was actually kind of like this. People - usually someone trying to ride the emerging .com wave - would barf up these incomplete early web sites with promises that absolutely would never be delivered.

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Right as I pushed the button, my partner turned off the lights. It was freaky.

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Blazereply
piefed.zip

The one with ! works for all instances

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Blazereply
piefed.zip

Oh sorry, didn't notice you linked a feed above

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lemmy.world

I've actually used HTTP cats at work. You can call it inside your own error messages with https://http.cat/[status_code]

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shalafireply
lemmy.world

405 and 431 get me giggling! So many more to love.

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This is absolutely amazing! I do hope the absolute best for Jannine, she sounds wonderful. I've never been so invested in a restaurant employee on the other side of the planet.

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Oh my God it murders my laptop. Love the website though, it's fantastic.

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Oh wow I wished the entire web was like this. Not only a single würstjoint in Germany but world wide. Like a world wide web.

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I know hating ai is the style of the times, but I love watching them do things like this. Honestly, ai as a goofy little toy would be so much better.

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This is great.

Q: Can I provide my own wood?
A: In most cases we can handle your wood.

If you live in Antarctica contact us for a special discount!

Your pen is Our business!

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That and theBestPageInTheUniverse were formative

(I say, realizing that I remember nearly none of them besides vibes)

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lemmy.world

The idea of posting the URL to a stand alone meme gif instead of actually posting the gif feels like the highest tier of memeing.

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lemmy.world

Honestly, I'm shocked there isn't a small site that's just a rickroll to get around everyone that's memorized the YouTube URL.

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There definitely are ones. Back when I worked at a smaller tech company, I had an old co-worker who was solely responsible for running our internal DNS. They periodically created new internal URLs that redirected to Rickrolls and shared hid them in random internal docs.

My favorite was one he gave to our CEO who put it in a PowerPoint without checking it first and he clicked it during a presentation! Everyone was a good sport about it.

Those were good times…

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europe.pub

Shout out to how much I miss Stumble Upon from the earlier days of the internet.

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sh.itjust.works

dreifir.com

I made it because I found the filesize limitation of catbox to be too small, and I want to host other stuff than pictures and videos too.

It requires a login to upload stuff, as I don't want to deal with the headache of accepting anonymous uploads, and I might make it into something "proper" one day.

EDIT: Catbox, not carbon. Ducking autocorrect.

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I can set you up with an account if you want. If so, DM me your chosen username and an email address (the latter doesn't have to be valid, but I do intend to have a password reset function at some point)

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https://boringboringboring.com/

Once upon a time, there was a site called StumbleUpon which was a glorified search engine, except you basically only picked a category/topic and their service would redirect you to some random page on the net that was under the category.

The site went down eventually and they took off their extension. They eventually turned into Mix, but now you can actually still find StumbleUpon out there. They've closed off their actual capability for some reason.

The closest thing we have now maybe that doesn't exactly match but for giggles, is the useless web:

https://theuselessweb.com/

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Thanks! I discovered you don't need to build a transformer to be openai compatible. This operates more as a slot machine so I didn't waste energy training a model to be a duck and its more lightweight. There's 70ish possible responses with varying rarities and just a simple rule not to repeat the same one twice. If you use the website or API there is a slight chance your "data" will be captured by your ISP or HF, but it's open source and super lightweight so you can run it locally. If you are super security minded you might notice there are 3 things obfuscated in the source code. They are just fun Easter eggs obfuscated like a spoiler tag, but it's just base64 so you can easily audit to verify my claim that it's humor not vulnerability.

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My “silly little website” isn’t really that silly — it’s about exploring clean, alternative power like aluminum–air and saltwater systems. I’m genuinely interested in how such chemistry-based power could support resilience in remote or disaster-prone areas. That’s what I’ve been building at www.wehometool.com .

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lemmy.world

Dotlink — just someone's personal page with a peculiar design.

It seems to be partly inspired by r/Ooer (you need to have custom subreddit css allowed on this link, or open it in an incognito tab).

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lemmy.world

Oh man, I miss that brief moment when people who had sites like this were cool and interesting. There was so much more life in the internet.

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I mean, I still consider this page cool. It seems to have originated in 2016, and IMO it's not quite the 90s ‘dancing baby’ design or Myspace, but instead has a definite whiff of Tumblr art circa early-mid 2010s. I liked psychedelic-ish Tumblr art, it gave a whimsical perspective on life.

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lemmy.world

Is YTMND.com out of favor? I can't remember if something happened at some point and people started to hate it.

I have Captain Jean-Luc Picard, USS Enterprise, burned into my head.

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