Another old website⊠Les Entartistes were a group of politically motivated Canadian performance artists who shoved pies in the faces of politicians. At first they offered a $400 reward to anyone who would shove a pie in the face of PM Jean Chrétien, but when nobody took up the offer they began pieing people themselves. Their website is still up and intact in both English and French.
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Whatâs striking to me about this kind of page is how there is artistic expression in the presentation, but there isnât any editorial viewpoint being expressed that I can see. I think that means it was intended as a resource or a reference.
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i found this it looks delightfully old https://jump.ro/.
i wouldnât trust them with my money though lol (.ro domain registrar)
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Indeed, if you want to get a .ro domain I recommend going straight to the source: | RoTLD - Romania Top Level Domain (used to be a pretty retro site, too, then they updated it).
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i dont have a need for .ro but good to know
I was messing around looking for inspiration in image searches, when I found this site:
http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/
It was last updated in 2015, but has a huuuuuuge list of short reviews of hand-made amateur GUIs. As someone whoâs always interested in interface design, this is a treasure trove.
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Phrases âthe GUIâ and âthese GUIsâ seem to refer to alternative graphical shells for DOS. Maybe this was common shorthand at the time? Wasnât obvious to me reading it in 2025.
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Yeah, itâs a bit confusing as to what the target systems are, since weâre missing some context. After reading through several of them, I think they are shells written in QBASIC for DOS, like you said. The author does mention running them in DOSBox, and has one of their own that theyâve been working on continuously and is still in developmentâitâs called Costa, and is a lot more functional compared to these.
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All things cat - famous felines; cats in fables and fairy tales; real life stories and adventures of felines; cat postage stamps; cat book summaries; news items; cat dingbats and fonts; feline fun section; stories.
Site went into âhibernationâ in 2019 and they are currently Facebook only (boo!) but its look hasnât changed since it started in 2003.
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Dedicated to 1980s âpocket machinesâ programmable in BASIC. Stared in 1999, still going! Wayback Machine save from 2000 looks very much like the current set up.
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Cliff Muskietâs Stewardess/Flight Attendant Uniform Collection
One manâs obsession, a collection of flight attendant uniforms currently numbering 1,892 from 633 different airlines! Site has looked the same since 2012.
OK, had to edit to add this site, which is link from the uniform site:
WingCollector - a database of military and commercial pilot wings of the world. Site looked the same in 2005! Currently has over 4000 wings in the database, over 1700 in his personal collection.
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Dressed to release the genetically modified sharks into the moat surrounding the laboratory.
Dressed to recover the stolen codes from the drop point.
Dressed to administer the truth serum.
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bookscans dot com! the layout seems to have stayed pretty much the same for about 20 years⊠if itâs not broke, donât fix it! cool site, too.
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This is such a cool site! I love all those retro, vintage covers.
Oh, this is a great resource! And a great late 90s/early 2000s layout.
A site dedicated to the Cheese Family, some obscure Sanrio mascot. Its own links still fully work and (according to its updates section) it hasnât been updated since 2004!
Most of the outside links donât work, but this one does! Another site dedicated to Tarepanda, another Sanrio mascot.
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Oh, that is a cute one! I took the cheese quiz - apparently Iâm mozzarella.
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I just stumbled upon a manatee webpage from 2003.
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This website contains the history of virtual pets and virtual worlds, dating back to 1996. Most of its original content was repurposed into blog posts in 2007.
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