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

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.

What a ride!
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!
I can’t believe someone has paid for that domain name for 23 years… O_O
This was... interesting.
I stopped at day 17. Not sure if it goes farther, but that was a rough one.
This was awesome! I got so invested in the story! You landed on a goldmine with this 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!

Crimson skies was an awesome dieselpunk arcade plane game. It's owned by Microsoft and the second game was a hit on the Xbox. I still have a copy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_Skies:_High_Road_to_Revenge
All those faction names are so amazing. Nation of Hollywood and Industrial States of America go hard.
Crimson Skies was a great game!

http://www.themostamazingwebsiteontheinternet.com/

Truly the most amazing website on the internet. (Just a heads up, there are some flashing images)

some

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!

A whole website dedicated to alchemy and alchemical accessories. Super neat! https://www.alchemywebsite.com/

Endless fun.

I got a nice hit:

http://toastytech.com/evil/index.html

This was updated recently, even. Recent enough to mention Win11.

Hey OP. Let's make a community out of this. Where we post each site that link took us to.

I'm down. Mine was a cowboy beebop fan page.

https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

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

Here's something I got that looks like it was pulled straight from Hypnospace: http://d21c.com/bthelioness/KrazyPage.html
- I totally thought of Hypnospace right away withthe link I pulled: http://jgeoff.com/homepage/

I ... can't stop clicking

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS THIS (nsfw)

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

Apple 2e vs modern computers: https://danluu.com/input-lag/

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# Created by WebMap 1.0 # Wednesday, August 30, 1995 at 2:16 AM # Format: NCSA # rect /INDEX/index.html 0,0 75,18 rect /SEARCH/index.html 75,0 135,18 rect /index.html 135,0 260,18 rect /US/OJ/index.html 260,0 470,18
Wow

Reminds me of the days of StumbleUpon, good times on the internet back then

We were all so innocent (relatively) then

I miss web 1.0

This person is still updating their Mug root beer site. Just updated on 2022.

http://kpolsson.com/mugshots/

Not to be confused with Mug, a root beer brand lol https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mug_Root_Beer

Poor mykel felps

https://restaurantmnd.ytmnd.com/

I love how fast all those sites load

It sent me to someone's obituary.

https://www.reviewmylife.co.uk/kettlecookery/

How to cook using a kettle.

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

A collection of free-to-use photography:

http://www.burningwell.org/

They’re even tagged!
The “bird” tag contains almost exclusively seagulls and chickens. Not a birdwatcher, I suppose.

Can a Human See a Single Photon?

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Quantum/see_a_photon.html

I don't know why, but this made me smile.

His YouTube channel is great.
Nice one, that's a treasure trove of information!

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.

Are web rings back???

Make sure you reserve your space in Geocities! New neighborhoods opening monthly! Or you can host on Angelfire.

hey all you cool cats and kittens!

Fairly sure Carol Baskin made this website.

A site "Last revised: August 16, 1995" that's still intact and accessible. Looks like something straight out of geocities http://www.fluffy.com/fluffy/Fluffyhome.html

Wonder what Cathy or her sons are doing nowadays

Stardates in Star Trek FAQ

http://gunsandsand.com/ There sure is a niche for everything...

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?

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

First link I got was this, very interesting: https://red-coral.net/Amer.html

This is very cool! I bookmarked to read more later.

A tribute to... The most frightening S ever

This is certainly unexpected: http://n64devkit.square7.ch/

I also ended up in a page for a family with links to webcams and a bunch of old family photos.

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!

http://www.vipleo.com/pages/article5eng.html

VIPLEO® Cattery of Caracat, Caracal and Serval
The world's first Cattery for the breeding of legalized Caracats

http://richfiles.solarbotics.net/SunbirdChair.html

This guys chair is fucking legendary.

Anyone want a game of dots and boxes? https://mathworld.wolfram.com/DotsandBoxes.html

Wow! Back to the 90/00's

It just gave me https://www.old-games.com/

Which is probably the coolest website.

Nice.... It's got my favourite game from my childhood - Rick Dangerous

I got imitationpickles.org and it wasn't available lol

I got transformers gore

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.

http://www.etfriends.com/ Exactly how I expected something like "ET-Friends" to look like.

There's content on there from 2020! Good to see that HTML template they bought 25 years ago is still going strong.

That's honestly a work of modern art

I decided to look up a little history: https://history-computer.com/web-1-0/

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

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

Many new uses for bananas. http://banana.fws1.com/banana.htm

After few attempts I got: http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/

I got the history of AM radio and then something called Hot Dog Linux lmfao

.__. uhhh... This content is questionable.

http://starmen.net/cult/

what the..
- EathBoundhasCult

This is wild: http://cgim.org/thegarfields/garfieldfamily/ireland98/

http://tchsyearbooks.com/

Scans of a high schools year books from the past century.

No spring break in 1909. What a ripoff.

Wow Berkshire Hathaway has the most geocities webpage, still

A man ahead of his time... Some New Uses For Bananas http://banana.fws1.com/banana.htm

Oddly this is way more entertaining than reddt was on it's best days.

This is gold

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

https://hpmuseum.org/srinst.htm

The Museum of HP Calculators

Found Hank Shrader’s favorite site http://www.tigerminerals.com/

http://www.shira.net/sitemap.htm

A website about belly dancing. And it was last updated in 2020!

Got an interesting page on the security of the world wide web.

The link I got was http://pages.swcp.com/~mccurley/danger/mailbomb.html

Which as discovered by clicking "go back to previous page" as well as context on the page was that it was a redirect from all of the links on this page: http://pages.swcp.com/~mccurley/danger/danger.html that were things like "click here to (do x bad thing) to your machine"

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

This is amazing

Oh cool. It sent me to, uh, a furry website.

https://yerf.metafur.org/

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Crack in the Box! Yeah it's about crack. https://www.crackinthebox.com

Oh this is fun. http://inthe80s.com/

"Clean Bible jokes, puns, and trivia"

https://home.snu.edu/~hculbert/trivia.htm

This is wild: http://cgim.org/thegarfields/garfieldfamily/ireland98/

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.

I got https://www.geocities.ws/misterralls/index.html and now I want to know how Mike Ralls is doing since the enshitification and whether he continued rock climbing

I found him on LinkedIn. Looks to be happy. No idea if he is still climbing though. Finished his master's degree however!

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.

haha cool i got this site. https://sadgrl.online/cyberspace/internet-manifesto

I love the design

Got redirected to https://www.operating-system.org/ , which looks web 2.0 rather than 1.0... And seems like the kind of site that I actually want to read, nonetheless

That is 1.0, pure html but just well constructed.

Feels weirdly nostalgic even though I wasn't there during web 1.0.

What are the odds that the random website it gave me was my physics study guide in high school? The Hyperphysics website

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!

How does it find "web 1.0" sites? Does it just crawl sites and sort out the ones that don't use javascript or inline style tags? What rules does it use?

Its a seach engine: https://wiby.me/about/ Github: https://github.com/wibyweb/wiby/tree/main

I got https://www.w3.org/History.html which is very apt

https://geocities.restorativland.org/Area51/Dreamworld/2779/

Damn.

I wonder if all the Geocities sites are still up. I tried searching for the one I made when I was about 16. I called it Eric’s World. Cringe I know but still would be neat to see it at 45.

The internet has changed so much, I automatically assumed this was a furry website when I landed there http://diabellalovescats.com/

Tbh I am still not 100% convinced that it is not.

That was a wild ride.... Top two: Heavens Gate and a furbo autopsy.

https://www.heavensgate.com/ http://phobe.com/furby/

I remember when Heaven’s Gate was first on the news. I went online and looked at their site. You have to give them credit for maintaining it for all these years.

http://phobialist.com/ wow.