First started in 1999, last updated February of this year. Incredibly in-depth site on Tolkienās created languages. Includes lessons on how to speak Quenya, write ups on the other languages used in Tolkienās books, translations. Itās a lot!
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Hereās a bunch Iāve found recently:
- PlantStudio, last updated in 2002.
- GeoNames, modern but looks straight out of 2005.
- SemPress WordPress theme, modern but looks straight out of 2013.
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I havenāt read the resources yet, but this is very cool: a historical archive of the Civil Disobedience Index from ACT-UP NY.
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Rock and roll ! ACT UP were indie media pioneers - some old episodes of DIVA TV, their public access television show, are available online. DIVA stood for āDamn Interfering Video Activistsā. And hereās the page about them !
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Thatās awesome, I didnāt know about this!
Change just a few words, and the section about how media has removed urgency and normalized AIDS could apply to COVIDā¦
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Two Old Websites for Today!
While googling something I came across this site, which lists the ways that people say ābeware of the dogā on house signs in different languages. This led me to click on this site, which is devoted just to Latvian ābeware of the dogā signs. Both of these websites please me.
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the first and only virtual museum with
over 150 international top artists in different sections such as:
āPhotographyā, āDigital Artā and āPixel Artā.
2002-2006 according to the footer but the link is still good! Really interesting way of presenting the art.
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This is brilliant - both nostalgic and an impressive bit of web design. I particularly like the way that clicking on a picture opens it in a new window - thatās not something you see often anymore!
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Amazing - started in 1992, looks early 90s, still being currently updated! They bill themselves as the Gateway to Reggae on the internet and I think they are. So much info on this site! Best part is if you go to the About section, youāll find instructions to send off for a free sticker by sending them a SASE. Whenās the last time you did that?
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Radical! Thereās stuff on that site going back to the Usenet days, which is always a positive sign.
Letās not all send off for a free sticker at once, ok, we donāt want to overwhelm them ā¦
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The Lurkerās Guide to Babylon 5
Looks like this site might have started in 1994. Some pages havenāt been updated since '97. Latest updates seem to have been in 2023. The resource page, last updated in 2005, is full of dead links (fan sites, usenet groups, chat rooms, etc). The episode guide was last updated in 2023.
Pure HTML, not a sign of CSS!
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Oh thatās lovely. A classic starry background too!
Thottās old website from the Everquest days Thott's Writings
The name might be familiar to old school Warcraft players who frequented ThottBot back in the day.
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Why do levels exist in a game at all? Lets consider the early game of most any level based RPG. Generally the player starts at level one, walks outside, and starts killing mobs around his level. The level one player canāt travel very far, because mobs quickly become far too powerful to defeat, and happily eat level one players that wander out of their pen. The character is thus confined to the newbie areas, where there are mobs that he can kill.
ā The Kunark Problem
Meanwhile Fromsoft enjoyers say, āhold my beer.ā
Wow, some people are just wired to be spectacular at games, hey?
Providing pictures of cats in sinks since 2005. A Wayback Machine capture from 2005 shows the site hasnāt changed its look much in the past 20 years.
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What stood out to me was when Thott says āthe player changedā heās really talking about the player character. That made me want to hold up a contrasting example. Thott was likely writing this about EQ Kunark (2000) before the release of Fromsoftās Demonās Souls (2009).
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Perfect. If it aināt broke, why fix it?
This goes for websites, sinks, and cats in sinks
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Started in 1998, last updated in 2023.
I found this site while looking for old school coordinated websets. The page owner has a graphics section but it and the blues pages donāt link up at all. Do check out the graphics pages if youāre into early 2000s websets, especially ones featuring jeweled settings made with, probably, Blade Pro. If I wasnāt so in love with my current site theme, Iād totally change it to this one.
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Ooh, thereās some great stuff in there! Very 90s, even if the main site was updated as recently as March of 2023.
