This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Sites that have old forums. There aren't many anymore, but ones I've seen that have been very helpful of late include car sites, a timeshare forum, and the Fantasy Grounds forum (my virtual tabletop of choice).
I'm sure there are others out there, but it's definitely more rare than it used to be. Is Something Awful still around?
https://celeryman.alexmeub.com/
(Not really mobile friendly, which holds true to the old school Internet)
Some examples that I remember are:
https://everything2.com/node/e2node/An%20Introduction%20to%20Everything2 - massively interlinked information site
https://www.dieselsweeties.com/ - robots and people comic
https://realultimatepower.net/ - ninjas
Has Real Ultimate Power actually changed at all/added new content? I was reading that in elementary.
Nope, exact same html.
I see YouTube videos linked, and I remember being on this site before YouTube existed. I don't think it has changed all that much, though.
Ebay
I imagine their source code is such an unmaintainable mess that it’s impossible to modernize
it was written in FORTRAN
Debian’s website….
https://www.spacejam.com/1996/jam.html
I’m pretty sure spacejam.com showed that page up until the sequel supplanted it.
From a time when websites used <table> or position: absolute; to place elements on the screen. That website is just one big table.
I feel that right in the MySpace.
Aw i miss when website tracking was only "xxxx users have visited this page" and it was just a simple counter that counted up.
I remember being so proud when I implemented that on my first website.
Yep! I did it for a final project, called DANK WEB. We implemented an airhorn counter. We found out the day before that it just stored the value it saw +1 to the DB so a bad actor could reset the count. Then we easily figured out that we could just reference the DB so we fixed the bad actor part.
We got a 98 on the final. It was the most fun I had on a project in all of college.
THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!!
Extremely useful website for collectors of dead media formats (LD, D-VHS, HD-DVD, CED, VHD, etc.) Still has an old style interface with priority given to function and utility over styling. Also has a storefront where you can buy and sell discs.
TIL Timecube is no longer up. That was my go to site for what the internet used to be like.
aw man that site was like Dr Bronner's took some digital mushrooms
No JavaScript sites on onionland
My healthcare services websites. Their website and mobile app require separate logins. The website logs in then redirects to a completely different website.
They have a tax-free “store” that feels like a completely different website.
Everything is laid out using what seems like the idea of middle management and not modern design philosophy.
TreasuryDirect also feels classic. If you're not familiar, it's a US government website to buy and sell certain types of treasury bonds. Some great features:
It does do some modern-ish things with page layout, but not that modern, like maybe early 2000s modern. But it's perennially stuck about 20 years in the past.
https://search.marginalia.nu/ is a search engine for non-commercial content and is pretty great regarding the old-school factor :-)
I haven’t visited in a long time – but I can’t imagine Craigslist has changed much.
Craigslist is slightly cleaner looking that it used to be but the functionality and button placement is identical. I much prefer it to Facebook marketplace or OfferUp.
Florida’s unemployment website
Kernel.org, home of the Linux kernel, hasn't changed much.
Kernel.org today:
Kernel.org in 1998:
https://web.archive.org/web/19980130085039/https://kernel.org/
