Every time you click on this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

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This takes me back to the glory days of stumbleupon.

I miss SU so much...this is awesome!

Exactly, it's giving me big nostalgia flashbacks to the pre-reddit days. I was on SU so much for years, used the social communities, and was pretty excited to discover reddit. I can't believe it's been 20 years, ouch

I'm obsessed with the one I got https://www.stinkymeat.net/stinkymeat/day1/

A guy dropped raw meat on a plate in his neighbors lawn and documented the decomposition.

As I read, I found myself tilting my phone back more and more to get the photos as out-of-focus as possible while still being able to read. By the time the hot dogs vanished, I found myself unable to continue.

I salute this person’s dedication to scientific discovery, but I could smell those photos through the screen. Nope.

A steak, what appears to be maybe 2lbs of ground beef and a half dozen hotdogs for $7.31....

That would easily cost me $30 today!

After the first few days I realized: I have been to this site before. Easily over a decade or more ago.

This was awesome! I got so invested in the story! You landed on a goldmine with this one!

I stopped at day 17. Not sure if it goes farther, but that was a rough one.

I went in for seconds and landed here: http://firedrake.org/roger/csarchive/universe/states.htm This is sooo cool and I don't even know what it is! Has anyone heard of Crimson Skies computer game??

Its premise seems to be that America failed. The link took me to the write-ups of what happened to the states. Example: "Montana and Wyoming have largely fragmented. All government is local, and the locals seem determined to keep it that way. The population is completely disgusted with national government and aims to show that local government can perform far better than any distant bureaucracy. Portions of Wyoming and Montana have been claimed by other states, but by and large this is the most lawless and best armed stretch of the West."
Another: "The bulk of Nevada is desert, not even worth the effort of laying claim to. Most of the inhabitants southeast of the Sierra Nevadas are desert air pirates, scrub ranchers, and rattlesnakes."

Not gonna lie...it got me at Air Pirates!

All those faction names are so amazing. Nation of Hollywood and Industrial States of America go hard.

This was a fun one to get directed to. Quite a reminder of what reddit used to be. http://amatranscripts.com/

Reddit truly had some great AMAs. The first Bill Gates one was great, Obama’s was exciting. But my favorite moment was Ken Bone being revealed to be into pornography of pregnant women.

But enough about beautiful human submarines, can we please talk about rampart

I got a curated list of shortcuts found on different tracks in Mario Kart 64.

https://davidwonn.kontek.net/mk64.html

Looks like it hasn't been updated since 1997. I kinda wanna track down the author and see if he's kept up with some of the new world record tricks that have been found since then!

That's a bookmark for me! And as a slightly related recommendation, if you like this stuff, you should play Hypnospace Outlaw.

Edit: Since everyone is sharing what they got, the link led me to some cool pixel fonts

Woah, I don’t even know what to say. That was something else for sure.

I don't... what is... why does...

I think I need to lie down.

That was more or less my reaction .-.
I expected something nice... but this was the first thing I got when I clicked the link

It's a small website created by a comedian. You can see by the link at the bottom of the page. It's not actually NSFW, but I do like the pose of the old lady like she's some sort of horror movie serial killer.

Oh i remember that site. its just another shock site.

1 more...

I've realized this true randomness is something that current Web does not offer, all the algorithms are so optimized to keep bringing "what interests you" or "what interests lot of people".

The randomness is so addictive, and perhaps even a bit dangerous.

I got the albino squirrel preservation society. It doesn’t get more random than that. I checked out a couple more and it makes miss the old web of the 90s.

That is wild! Like a blend of nostalgia and time travel. When the internet was just free and wild. One of the pages had midi music!

The nostalgia this brings me when I look at these pages and they are just straight to the point.

Sometimes I miss the old internet and web pages.

It was such an exciting time. Being an awkward teen back then the internet was a great place for me to socialize and meet new people. There was nothing better than seeing my hit counter number go up showing that people were visiting the website I made.

This is so cool. Why am I legitimately this excited for old ass webpages?

They're a piece of living history. It's like being able to walk into a ren fair or look on a piece of art in it's creation

Because it's the closest we'll ever get to time traveling

https://www.bingeandgrab.com/

A Buckethead fan site for all your Buckethead news, theories, and fan art.

A haiku from the author:

when he plays it's like

the sounds of those dead chickens

coming through his hands

idk what i got... wtf is this? http://www.silkentent.com/gus1911/RonPond.htm

This is what the internet used to be like. You'd have a very simple webpage/website set up dedicated to a hobby or something personal that might interest you and put it out there for people to come across and read. I really miss this era of the internet.

It’s like Journey to the Microcosmos, minus a budget.

The connection to www.sugarglider.com is not secure You are seeing this warning because this site does not support HTTPS. Learn more

until just a few years ago many small sites were not https capable because globally trusted SSL/TLS certifcates were expensive and difficult to get. the amazing people at LetsEncrypt worked hard to fix this, however many ancient sites have not been updated to take advantage of easy https access.

the danger of visiting a http-only site is real (man-in-the-middle content injection and private information compromise), but likely not much more than actualy visiting the site wth https. an http-only site is possibly indicative of an unmaintained server and therefore a server that could be previously compromised and serving malicious content. of course, the same applies to an https server, but my guard is always up on an http only connection. obviously I would not pass sensitive information across an http-only connection.

use precautions (e.g. javascript off) when hitting random servers if you do decide to click links.

The first hit was a txt page with a list of TEXT emoji and explanations... I should had seen that page 20 years ago and sent it to my dad.

…emoticons?

Damn you're right. I know there was another term but it was late and it has been too long

I got sent to some nutjob's site where he tells you all about the superior space technology NASA refuses to use called slingshotting the rockets into space. I say nutjob because most of his site is dedicated to conspiracy theories and holy shit it's still active he's even got a youtube now

More fun and innocent - Speculative biology! Hell yeah weird alien turtle dinosaurs! Actually pretty cool and I think still active? The illustrations are really neat

Also hilariously, I also found a site all about finding interesting web 1.0 pages which even links to what you've linked. It's also full of tips and tricks on how to recreate that web 1.0 jank on your own blog!

https://emailmyheart.neocities.org

This looks like a 15 year old girl's personal Backstreet Boys shrine website from 1997 and it's amazing

Eta: And this is where incels evolved from http://theabsolute.net/minefield/

oh my gosh, the first one uSeS tHeSe CaPs unironically. Never thought I'd see the day, what a treasure

I took the love match quiz and got Howie.

reminds me of that site? app? that would send you to a random website. that's how i stumbled upon reddit. oh yeah... it was called stumbleupon.

This is cool! I landed on an old Doom WAD review page.

Wow Berkshire Hathaway has the most geocities webpage, still

The Web 1.0 is a lot like the Gemini protocol but older imo.

Does anyone know how do I make a shortcut to this on an Android phone?

OP, thank you very much for this. You've made my day.

Idk why but this has taken over the last half hour of my life lol

Got frenchpastrychef.com

Edit: Tried again and got a quick glimpse of an old geocities page before I got a popup that told me my iphone was infected. Lol