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I was thinking today about the websites that I have revisited frequently since I started surfing. The browser was Mosaic or Lynx when I was using one of the VAX terminals available to students at my high school, the year was 1995, and the wonders uncovered by my boring 16 year old mind were:
- chaos.org. This guy has been squatting on this most desireable of domains for years. His site has actually started carrying content since then, but at that point it was just, "Hey, I've got chaos.org."
- The Onion. For many years, my first choice in news acquisition.
- The NCSA HTML Primer. Taught me how to do things like this nifty bulleted list. Still consult it pretty often. Makes me wonder why there is anyone in the world who doesn't know how to hyperlink.
- Dancing About Architecture. Online music criticism that hasn't been updated in three years. Some of the archives are still worth a look.
- HELL.COM. Still don't know who does it. Still worth a look. Worth paying the money to get an email address at.
- Sadly, the Trojan Room Coffee Machine has been shut off. But the world's first webcam still has a homepage, and it brings a sniffle to realize that an absolutely useless artifact of the WWW has finally come to an end.
So anyway, mostly useless, mostly dull: these are the sites that make me feel old. Share yours?
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