http://www.staggeringbeauty.com/ is an oldie but a goodie
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Damn, Zombocom. I remember taking a Photoshop class in highschool, probably 2004 or so, and we were able to sync up all like 35 computers to play Zombocom at the same time. It was a really wonderful thing to hear, Zombocom in 70.0, crappy computer speaker quality.
The thing that people wouldn't get today is that zombocom was a spoof site of other stuff that was out there that was actually kind of like this. People - usually someone trying to ride the emerging .com wave - would barf up these incomplete early web sites with promises that absolutely would never be delivered.
Right as I pushed the button, my partner turned off the lights. It was freaky.
I like the community !coolwebsites@lemmy.ca there's a ton there.
Neocities.org have some awesome sites as well.
https://piefed.social/f/smallweb
If we are doing more piefed links :D
The one with ! works for all instances
Does it work for aggregate /f/ links? !smallweb@piefed.social
Nope. Makes sense.
I've actually used HTTP cats at work. You can call it inside your own error messages with https://http.cat/[status_code]
Saving this.
They even have my favorite: https://http.cat/418
https://xn--bruzzelhtte-0hb.de/ Local Currywurst place has this legendary website
This is absolutely amazing! I do hope the absolute best for Jannine, she sounds wonderful. I've never been so invested in a restaurant employee on the other side of the planet.
Oh my God it murders my laptop. Love the website though, it's fantastic.
Oh wow I wished the entire web was like this. Not only a single würstjoint in Germany but world wide. Like a world wide web.
I'm so disappointed that the official pens are unavailable, I need pens for my office.
This is great.
Q: Can I provide my own wood?
A: In most cases we can handle your wood.
If you live in Antarctica contact us for a special discount!
Your pen is Our business!
The idea of posting the URL to a stand alone meme gif instead of actually posting the gif feels like the highest tier of memeing.
That is how the rickroll came to be…
I actually shocked no one did that in this thread (yet).
Honestly, I'm shocked there isn't a small site that's just a rickroll to get around everyone that's memorized the YouTube URL.
There definitely are ones. Back when I worked at a smaller tech company, I had an old co-worker who was solely responsible for running our internal DNS. They periodically created new internal URLs that redirected to Rickrolls and shared hid them in random internal docs.
My favorite was one he gave to our CEO who put it in a PowerPoint without checking it first and he clicked it during a presentation! Everyone was a good sport about it.
Those were good times…
Imagine my surprise and amusement to discover that https://www.realultimatepower.net/ is still online.
The only limit is yourself at https://zombo.com/
Hey that's twice I've been linked there!
https://bosshobbies.neocities.org/ I made a website to help score Beyblade X games, and turned it into a watchapp for the Pebble watchapp https://apps.rebble.io/en_US/application/68efa55f5bf09a0009eac172
I made it because I found the filesize limitation of catbox to be too small, and I want to host other stuff than pictures and videos too.
It requires a login to upload stuff, as I don't want to deal with the headache of accepting anonymous uploads, and I might make it into something "proper" one day.
EDIT: Catbox, not carbon. Ducking autocorrect.
Oooo like a response pics folder but on the internet!
Shout out to how much I miss Stumble Upon from the earlier days of the internet.
https://bearjcc-quack-language-model.hf.space/ Chat with a rubber duck
Fantastic. Best use of language models I've seen.
Thanks! I discovered you don't need to build a transformer to be openai compatible. This operates more as a slot machine so I didn't waste energy training a model to be a duck and its more lightweight. There's 70ish possible responses with varying rarities and just a simple rule not to repeat the same one twice. If you use the website or API there is a slight chance your "data" will be captured by your ISP or HF, but it's open source and super lightweight so you can run it locally. If you are super security minded you might notice there are 3 things obfuscated in the source code. They are just fun Easter eggs obfuscated like a spoiler tag, but it's just base64 so you can easily audit to verify my claim that it's humor not vulnerability.
Not really a website with custom domain, but Anuken's Personal Website is kinda funny, even more so when you realize this cat is the developer of the famous open-source game Mindustry
Is YTMND.com out of favor? I can't remember if something happened at some point and people started to hate it.
I have Captain Jean-Luc Picard, USS Enterprise, burned into my head.
https://boringboringboring.com/
Once upon a time, there was a site called StumbleUpon which was a glorified search engine, except you basically only picked a category/topic and their service would redirect you to some random page on the net that was under the category.
The site went down eventually and they took off their extension. They eventually turned into Mix, but now you can actually still find StumbleUpon out there. They've closed off their actual capability for some reason.
The closest thing we have now maybe that doesn't exactly match but for giggles, is the useless web:
https://theuselessweb.site/nooooooooooooooo/
I put it in my homescreen, very useful.
My “silly little website” isn’t really that silly — it’s about exploring clean, alternative power like aluminum–air and saltwater systems. I’m genuinely interested in how such chemistry-based power could support resilience in remote or disaster-prone areas. That’s what I’ve been building at www.wehometool.com .

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