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What are some fun and interesting things to do while surfing the webz? I've gotten tired of visiting the same old sites, is there nothing interesting left to do?

>>14325 Nope, internet is not cool anymore, now it's just an extention of the boring real life

>>14325 At most collecting links, creating new pages, sharing stuff one made, I think >>14326 is right.

Nothing on the internet per sé. The only fun thing to do nowadays on the internet is learn stuff to use outside the Internet.

>>14325 I had this bookmark laying around for a while but I never took the time to learn how to use it. http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/

The internet is over. It won't be good again until somebody manages to tear it all down and restart from ARPAnet.

>>14325 I don't know if it would qualify as cool but it's interesting. It's a channel that uploads spooky shorts, it hasn't uploaded in a long time tho. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgTGrd4e-XHYNI2MX_KQjQw

>>14329 this is cool, thanks!

That depends of what you consider as fun, what are those old sites you visited?

http://www.windows93.net/ https://music.ishkur.com/ https://radio.garden/

>>14325 All there is left is weird soykaf on jewtube and your pick of porn.

I mean its still pretty easy to read or watch whatever you want for free, but I assume you're talking about socializing? I've taken to rolling up an online persona and trying to worm my way into various subcultures I find interesting for one reason or another. It's pretty fun. Basically like playing an mmo except the other characters are real people who don't know they're playing. Although I do miss the creativity of the days where if you wanted a website you had to code it up yourself.

>>14336 Its so hard to find good soykaf on youtube since they changed the way the search and recommendations work. The recs used to inevitably take you down a rabbit hole but now they just ultimately funnel you to whatever's "trending".

>>14334 Only helpful answer

>>14338 Plebbit has two subplebbits for finding weird videos on jootube. /r/Deepintoyoutube and /r/unknownvideos

>>14334 >Windows93 The best version of windows since RG

https://wiby.me/ <-- search engine for old school websites https://theuselessweb.com/ <-- click the button to go to a random website https://www.theuselesswebindex.com/ <-- similar to theuselessweb https://www.psyhigh.com/index.php <-- some site about a school for psychic children https://gondola.stravers.net/FrontPage.webm <-- website with a bunch a gondola webms https://vesta.janusvr.com/ <-- place to explore virtual reality worlds https://www.magicalgirls.moe/ <-- one of those html art websites https://cyberlf.github.io/ <-- website with a lot of cyberpunk stuff https://satoarchives.com/ <-- archive of work created by the guy who made lsd dream emulator https://uglydbzmerch.tumblr.com/ <-- tumblr blog dedicated to bad dragonball merch https://awesomeopensource.com/ <-- big list of open source projects https://www.argn.com/ <-- website about arg(alternate reality games) https://vesta.janusvr.com/spyduck/lains-bedroom-serial-experiments-lain <-- lains bedroom in vr

>>14334 >https://radio.garden/ How did this site know my position, even though I have disabled geo positioning? Is this an IP trick?

A geocities GIF search engine: https://gifcities.org/ A few music blogspots: https://kayokyokuplus.blogspot.com/ https://433rpm.blogspot.com/ https://tapeattack.blogspot.com/ Textfile repository: http://www.textfiles.com/ A variety of japanese media: https://jpmdblog.com/

>>14356 >Is this an IP trick? Yes, exactly.

>>14325 anybody remember what happened to that site listed on 8ch /cyber/ IIRC it was called /the end/ or something like that and it was a .onion site, it was supposed to be a cyberpunk site, but idk how far the project went since 8ch is kill

>>14371 Endchan? Yeah, I vaguely remember a site like that, but I forgot it as well.

a community of publicly shared linux systems https://tildeverse.org/

http://kickypie.com/profile&botid=136 talk to ai chatbots https://www.gwern.net/docs/rotten.com/library/index.html The old rotten library https://www.mmnt.net open ftp index https://www.microsoftsucks.org inane comments http://bitcoinshell.mooo.com this site lets you create a shell account and then do pretty much anything you want. encourages you to try to root it. accepts ssh over tor

>>14325 http://www.petittube.com/ It gives u random videos, sometimes I find some good ones.

>>14371 >>14378 If it is EndChan you're talking about, there's links on dark.fail. Haven't been there myself but I remember seeing it listed.

>>14546 astronaut.io Seems to work a lot better for me. Petitetube sometimes doesn't load a video.

http://www.mateuszskutnik.com/submachine/ - Cool flash puzzle/exploration games. https://itch.io/games/free - Download DRM free indie games. Some are good some are bad, you'll just have to try them out. https://skribbl.io/ - Pictionary, but with ten year olds calling you a nigger. http://hgjfkdhskjdgturrgehdsbjkfhdsjkahturaytklfdjjfjfff.net/blackroom.html - Some kind of adventure game. What a young girls macintosh dreams at night.

>>14325 DING DONG DING DONG https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL0602iqqyiy6_ude-mFEJ7DRqqf0p-9o

>>14334 Loved the windows93. Really awesome!

>>15141 they have an imageborad https://www.windows93.net/b/

>>14326 >>14327 >>14328 >>14330 >>14336 It just means that you aren't looking hard enough. The web's a vast place with more sites than you'd be able to browse even if you lived for a thousand years.

>>15144 It kinda kills me that there could be websites, podcasts, and stuff that'd be perfect for me, but I'm just not finding them. Tech has become so huge and creepy and soykafty that the best option afaik is to come to a forum like lainchan to talk to actual people and ask them "I like this and this, any recommendations?". In a way it's hopeful, that tech can't replace a bro or a sis.

>>15271 For podcasts, Antennapod from F-droid has a very nice search function. Sometimes you can get somewhere interesting by spamming searches with combinations of words that fit the concept you're looking for. I've found a few things like this.

>>14325 i2p hands down

>>15305 Can you provide some examples?

Sorry if this seems like an advertisement, I just didn't know where else to post this I found an ancient forum from the year mother fuarrrking 1990! https://cellar.org/ I didn't know forums were that old

I started telecommunicating circa 1980, and there were already bulletin board systems up.

>>15531 What was different about the internet back then to now?

Man are you going to have a shock when you find out Usenet is still going.

>>15529 >ancient forum from the year mother fuarrrking 1990 >>15531 >bulletin board systems Yep. BBS, not a forum. It pretty much could not have been a web forum, since the first browser was just released 1990 and the HTML was not yet able to support a forum. In fact, > The first publicly available description of HTML was a document called "HTML Tags", first mentioned on the Internet by Tim Berners-Lee in late 1991. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML So, no. Unless you count BBS systems as forums. No web based forums were in existence back in 1990. BBS systems were and if you would have been just a bit more diligent, you could have seen this: > On June 1, 1998, The Cellar finally gives up as a local-only BBS and goes Internet - as a "telnettable BBS". https://cellar.org/faq.php?faq=what_it_is#faq_cellar_history > Some of the very first forum systems were the Planet-Forum system, developed at the beginning of the 1970-s, the EIES system, first operational in 1976, and the KOM system, first operational in 1977. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum Previous document includes an interesting note: > One of the first forum sites (which is still active today) is Delphi Forums, once called Delphi. The service, with four million members, dates to 1983. Seems to give login screen. Did not investigate further.

The Quest thread that has recent posts is 16 years old. That's impressive.

>>15532 Absolutely everything that you associate with the internet hadn't been invented yet.

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>>15567 Personal messaging - check Multi-user instant messaging chatrooms - check Discussion forums - check Online software download and upload - check Academic worldwide federated forums - check Hobbyist-run worldwide federated forums - check Remote banking and public services - check Social networking - check Interactive television - check Online marketplaces - check Online matchmaking services - check There is litearlly no "modern" communication concept that hasn't been invented in late 70's. The only difference between packet switching networks and telephone lines is that only one call could be made for one number.

>>14378 >>14562 Fellow newfriends, don't embarrass yourself. >>14371 didn't misspell the name, it's / T H E E N D / chatroom. Here's their address: http://theendgtso35ir6ngdtyhgtjhhbbprmkzl74gt5nyeu3ocr34sfa67yd.onion/

>>15580 First of all, learn what hyperbole is. Second, just because anything was invented didn't mean most users had access to it. Anything resembling Skype, youtube, FB etc that are taken for granted now were pretty much still Star Trek level to the average user in the 70s. I personally remember the early 80s when most people owning a computer did not own a modem at all.

I mainly use the internet for news or to support my programming and electronics related hobbies. The web as a whole isn't really something I want to surf these days anyway. Never been easier to get ebooks, too bad the places with real tech book discussion are largely dead.

>>15603 That's what kills you inside, the potential. The fact that you know things could and should be so much better, and they aren't, for reasons that don't seem to make much sense.

Such is growing up. The more you know and experience, the less interesting everything else seems. It also doesn't help that this web 3.0 garbage is basically the wet dream of those 90s internet providers with starter pages and fenced Internet. Chats? Dead. Social Media? Cancer. YouTube? PC bullshit or be demonetized. Online gaming? You can't even create your own server in contemporary games, lol. The Internet is not a place for outcasts or trailblazers anymore. It's just a timewaster like TV used to be before the Internet.

>>15580 This is like saying that trains weren't much of a breakthrough because caravans existed and they were functionally the same. Technically yes but sheer scale makes a difference.

>>14325 https://hashbang.sh/ Enter a new world!

>>15631 What's this?

>>15644 >>15631 ye pls esplain, the sauce code kinda explains but im still confused view-source:https://hashbang.sh/#!

ssh new@sdf.org

Unsure if it's been mentioned, but vapor93 is a fun little time waster.

really old serial experiment lain fansite http://angelic-trust.net/

>>16559 All the blog posts are password-locked, but just reading the list of titles is making me nostalgic for 00's internet culture. I don't even know why, honestly - some of the titles are specific to that culture, but most of them aren't. Maybe it's just the now-oldschool idea of a blog that's actually used like a journal, with long detailed updates, hosted on one's own personal website. Nowadays if someone wants to post about their life on the internet it's all just trite moments and non-expanded on opinions posted on twitter/facebook/tumblr/whatever. To be honest, I never actually read anyone's personal blogs back in the day, but they're something that I was aware of as being a major part of the internet, and I can't really put my finger on exactly when that stopped being the case.

https://copy.sh/v86/

http://lainos.sourceforge.net/ Dead since before I found it but it's interesting to read anyway

>>16784 I recall that perhaps two or three years ago there was some talk either here or on the IRC that someone made attempts to contact the devs but to no avail.

>>16197 Uhh, a vape shop?

>>15580 The traffic was spread out rather than manipulated by the overlords. The spreading made for less advertising. Less advertising, no overlords. We had privacy and copyright infringed rather than tried to date sluts and watch the news. We went on derezzed sites like the temple of the screaming electron rather than myspace2.0 or ebay2.0. No money. Anonymous. Surfing many places. A feeling that things were getting better, due to the potential of the Internet being uncontrolled, it created a sense of wonder, and not just a sense but actual potential was there. It is dying now and has been for a very long time. 1990s= literally no rules 2001= cp derezzed, privacy derezzed, but still new things happening like cool swf games and new sites 2007= vapid phone posters and capitalistic corruption ensues, loli derezzed by now since 2003, banning synthetic drugs, news becoming literally just mind control for the sake of republican ethics 20XX=swf all but derezzed, replaced with cellphone apps that spam children to make them want to buy thigns, no anime sites without spamming adds too, etc, sad panda won't let you in, etc, reddit even derezzed it's watchpeopledie sub, etc, 4chan derezzed teen threads years ago because "it's pedo to like a girl under 25ish, etc >amazon wont' even sell batons anymore because moar rules >ebay neither >ebay won't even sell kratom anymore >having privacy is illegal >drugs are illegal for the sake of banning recreation >even weed is illegal (usa obviously) on the federal level, they merely let booze stay because it's too easy to make >be 2005ish >anime still good >sites still up that were the best for things like copyright infringement or learning edgy things >no spamming of politics nor advertising spam >etc >be now >a drawing gets you 20 years potentially >gen X anime nerds rolling over in their graves that originally never gave a soykaf >gen y does fuarrrk all to stop the raping of rights >gen z actually enjoys the very vapid rape of this boring dystopia >back then Jobs of Apple made a PSX emulator for the G3 Mac >be now, Nintendo sues people over freely made fan games >90s people used to say in porn "oh but father I'm only 14!" to do ageplay >now that would get you prison time >even a drawing would >swf was really derezzed because their AI could not autodetect the porn inside the program >they were afraid of freedom of expression THAT MUCH >go to swfchan, the bottom of the page you can feel the seething as it states something about freedom of expression being attacked, through implications >facebook is controlled by the gov >it was forced to replace myspace >facebook bought the oculus so it could see through your very eyes, the all seeing eye >why would a liberated mind and nerd hate this 'progressing' madness? You get it, probably not, but there it is.

>>17095 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYnD1oXA9o8 Holy fuarrrk, talk about depreessing. I feel like there is a vague hint of hope still left if we got a significant amount of online traffic to become decentralized. Unfortunately this would require the average knuck dragging mobile using dopamine addict to actually give a soykaf about decentralization and to become somewhat technologically competent beyond opening his phone apps.

>>17099 watched his video about 'bugmen'. What's with all the trad nonsense?

>>17099 I really don't think that interactions in pre-hypercentralized internet were, as they imply "human like". I think it's more an issue of spaces and who owns/polices them.

I can recommend checking out various RSS feeds. It's not a dead technology. Some websites might only post once a month, others daily. Usually content on websites are a longer read with more thought put into them than what people post on the big social media platforms that are very hectic and often low effort. Maybe make an own neocities website or just explore the thousands of old school pages other people made. You could explore archives.org or other websites that are 10 years old for unknown content. There is a lot that gets overshadowed by algorithms and big corporations that get all the attention. Even on Youtube you can find interesting small channels that have only a few views, but you have to find them on your own, by clicking though profiles of people that might have the same interests as you, not a "recommended" video.

>>17100 >trad nonsense What makes it nonsense, friend?

>>17107 I think the problem is exactly the opposite: it's pre-existing structures (whether familiar, societal, or capitalistic) that have subsumed cyberspace. That's why places like this, that are detached from all that, are comfy, and places like Facebook, Instagram or, god forbid, Linkedin, are hell. Furthermore, but that's, like, just my opinion, deconstruction can actually be good if the thing you deconstruct is good. Isn't hacker culture all about deconstruction? Also, check out this very nice Essay I got on /lit/ here.

>>17108 wrong pdf, sorry, i'll just >>4536

>>17109 good god

>>14325 Stupid soykaf like geekologie.com are there, but even that got javascrip'd so hard it can see you future posts. Also the writer got a little.... homosexual.... and it was always disingenuous. >>17099 DO NOT GO GENTLY INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT

>>17108 Gracias por este libro, amigo.

>>17102 Could you link some nice RSS feeds, lainon?

>>14326 it never was/always has been take off your fuarrrking rose colored glasses and see the internet is the worst/best thing to happen to humanity

Visit new sites.

>>14325 I don't know how I even spend my time on the internet anymore. I guess I mostly browse 4chan and forums for diy electronics and watch youtube videos. Find a hobby or something.

How do you normally come across new places? Usually I use a collection of imageboards since they're like a crossroads of information, but unless I check it constantly it's hard to find anything.

>>17165 Not him but there's a news thread that was active fairly recently if that's what you're looking for. Also, I like RSS because I can keep up with peoples blogs without having to remember the check them. Most blogging platforms have it built in so you don't even have to worry about whether the person writing the blog thought to support it.

Create, market, and sell products

>>18876 indeed, participate in the overtaking of all aspects of life by the iron fist of commerce

tor. it's a thing. peak tor has never been tried.