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Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute
lose yourself in the commercial aesthetics of years past.
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Russian Psychoanalytic Art Mystery
old and unsolved/unsolvable, many links broken. both "viral" content and people's knowledge of mental illness were very different in 2006.
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Cliff Pickover's Reality Carnival
this website has been around for at least 17 years, looking exactly as it looks now. it's a science website on psychedelics. little details and secrets everywhere.
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The Whimsical Web
a list of websites with fun features
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JPEGFANTASY
interior design from the 80s/90s/early 00s, very relaxing to look at for some reason
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wwwtxt
snippets from the old web, messages from the past
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Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
browse by subgenre and decade, great for discovering
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Windows 93
non existent windows version simulated, full of little bits to explore
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Winamp Skin Museum
over 65000!! winamp skins from archive.org. some of my favorite styles are 2000's blobby-shiny, futuristic hi-fi system, minimalistic and handwritten
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BlueMaxima's Flashpoint is a webgame preservation project
flash games and websites from a different era of the internet.
Internet black holes
Browser Games
how many html tags can you name from memory?
guess the city from a first person video of someone walking around. see if your home country looks distinctly familiar, even if you've never been to the place shown in the video
cryptic puzzles! and basics to help you solve them
guess the wikipedia article from a mostly redacted version. sort of like hangman but no losing
a lovely 3d browser game where you deliver some mail and meet some folks
a word association game that will absorb hours of my life every once in a while
look at a color for a few seconds, then try to replicate it from memory as closely as you can
a cute board game adaptation
an infinite expanse of collaborative word search
egg, egg, egg, egg
Music
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KEXP
great live performances. the hipster tiny desk, if you will.
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Stoned Meadow of Doom
stoner rock albums. added value in the band/album names which tend to be hilarious.
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Vapor Memory
from the channel description: explore the classic and modern sounds of the late Internet age (vaporwave, dreampunk, ambient, experimental electronic, psychedelia, alternative, industrial, darkwave, minimal synth, long etc.)
Resources
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Bellsnwhistles
extremely 90s graphics
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The Iconolog
huge collection of 32x32 icons, some of them are in this page
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Lea Verou's CSS3 Patterns Gallery
cool patterns you can customize, they're made only using CSS
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GifCities
search gifs from archived geocities pages. a project by the internet archive.
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Peachie's Collection of Cute Stuff
cute little gifs neatly categorized
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CSS Tricks
so many interesting and helpful snippets
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CSS Gradient
visual tool for making color gradients and generating the corresponding CSS (i never seem to remember the linear-gradient syntax)
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comics
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downloading textbooks and ebooks - a guide
what it says up there
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the watch cartoon online (?)
cartoons
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Awesome Piracy
way more links
Video channels
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Sandwiches of History
barry makes one historical sandwich every day. that's it.
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Brickcrafts
beautifully detailed lego cities
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Pushing Up Roses
great reviews of old videogames and shitty television and movies.
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Steve1989MREInfo
you hate the military but suddenly you've watched 35 uninterrupted minutes of a man reviewing various military rations. that is the magic of steve.
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Tom Scott
interesting places, science, linguistics, computing, random knowledge.
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Numberphile
videos about interesting math bits.
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LGR / LGR Blerbs
anyone who giggles at 3d font creation software on a windows 98 computer setup is just alright with me.
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Techmoan
old and weird tech reviews.
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Rescue & Restore
restoration of vintage toys and such. very satisfying to watch.
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Odd Tinkering
also restorations, but this person does gaming consoles and if you haven't seen a yellowed gameboy return to pristine condition thanks to a combination of hydrogen peroxide and uv light, then what are you still doing here
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Peaceful Cuisine
lovely cooking videos with no music, no talking, only gentle sounds (look for the ASMR tagged videos)
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Brian David Gilbert
multitalented comedy person
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Vsauce
science, but, like, weird? sadly not very active anymore