I'm on a couple forum sites still (both phpbb I think). I still read fark.com but rarely if ever comment anymore.
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.
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.
4-ch.net (not to be confused with 4chan) is a 90s BBS that is still online and occasionally active. It's neat to see posts from the 90s still on the front page.
telnet bbs.lunduke.com
Oh man, fuck Bryan Lunduke. He aged like milk.
https://celeryman.alexmeub.com/
(Not really mobile friendly, which holds true to the old school Internet)
Anything they use at my work lol
I love the old simple powerful websites at companies I've worked for. It's when they add a bunch of whitespace and a chatbot that they really start to go to hell.
Yeah nah, this is old late 00s web sites that's have to load whenever you change something.
Wimp.com
Irregular webcomics
Dinosaur comics (qwantz.com)
No JavaScript sites on onionland
Some examples that I remember are:
most private trackers
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.
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.
Nope, exact same html.
Hubski
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?
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
