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tildeverse
The homepage for tildeverse, a loose association of tildes. Tildes are public unix systems, like sdf.org below, though the tilde movement is much more recent. They have an irc network and a mumble server, and links to many other tilde communities, as well as a many other services and projects that are tilde-related.
retroweb, tilde, culture, open source
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WWWTXT
An archival project that mines the records of the internet from 1980 to 1994, picking out insightful excerpts of 140 or fewer characters.
art, retroweb, virtual desktop, culture, media, web, archaeology
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Back Street Frying
The website of 3 friends, and the recipes and food they eat. Find the "secret" blog or poke through some recipes. Consult the oracle for your mealplans, if you dare.
personal, blog, culture, food
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Elliot's Computer
The personal page of a web developer (creator of special.fish and Gossip's cafe, two other Terra entries {check them out!}), this page arrays its content in a multitude of little blocks, each one devoted to single purpose. Fun to explore, and a great gateway into a small artistic bubble, here in the web wasteland.
personal, design, web, culture, discovery, music, art
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href.cool
A web directory, run by Kicks Condor (see below for their website.) A beautifully simple site tracking things that appeal to Kicks Condor's peculiar and wonderful style.
web, culture, art, hackers, tech, personal, media, design, retroweb, directory
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~gwern
The Website of Gwern Branwen - this is a fascinatingly complex personal site/wiki, with extensive writing on a variety of topics. Worth it just for looking at the beautiful web/graphic design. Also a great example of a minimalist and fast site that still has all kinds of interface niceties like link previews and drop capitals.
personal, blog, design, tech, hackers, journal, web, culture
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This Vessel Does Not Exist
AI generated pictures of vases. Sounds boring, but the website is oddly compelling as the generated vases morph and shift, adopting a wide variety of colors, patterns and forms. Genuinely mesmerizing, depending on your affection for amphorae.
machine learning, culture, art, open source, design
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~kickscondor
Who knows, really? This is a fascinating blog/web-directory/art piece? Honestly just worth exploring for the weird style and incredible variety of bizarre web animations.
blog, journal, culture, design, media, web
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the textfile directory
A collection of plain-text files, primarily from the mid-1980s, when person-to-person-via-computer communication happened almost exclusively in plain text. Think of these as the original memes, before computers were good at sending and displaying graphics. See the Top 100 to get a sense of what kind of material is here.
retrocomputers, culture, literature, tech, computers, hackers
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