#smolweb

[ms2253]

"Web 1.0 Hosting - is an advanced static hosting with some predefined most necessary ready-made scripts, a smallweb project that makes it possible to access static websites from old devices such as retro computers, old operating systems, palmtops, and cellular phones as part of an initiative to save the old web and support the smallweb movement. Hosting of modern websites and the use of modern technologies are also permitted. There is also a search engine, web mail and web chat, working on both modern and legacy systems."

[honysoytquimalpence]

how the internet feels, on top of a creeper fridge

[lucss21a]

The Blue Pages: Yellow Pages for the Old Web

Go there now!

Overview

Hello there again! As you know, this site directory is now turned into it's own very site. Why? Because that's more cooler and somehow intuitive.

As I explain on the title, The Blue Pages serves as an old web counterpart to Yellow Pages, an item from the bygone era of traditional telephone where you open the book to find local businesses and services in your are to call in.

The Blue Pages serves as a much niche complement to both the White and Yellow Pages, instead of either providing a residential directory or a directory for local businesses, it's a directory of old web (and sometimes modern web) sites or platforms that you could visit or use nowadays.

But wait, isn't this Google?

Yes... and no. Yes, we are listing websites to search for just like Google, and no because I will do things differently.

See, even during it's 25 year old lifespan as a big tech company, Google slowly is becoming an advertising powerhouse and not only just only search engines. Google, Bing and other modern search engines rely too much on the algorithms, which is horribly being abused by mostly spammy websites, AI generated bullcrap and more than more often than not, Reddit is added to suffixes of most tech related search queries.

The Blue Pages differs by mimicking real life yellow pages. While yellow pages sites exists, it mimics the directories for something like hotels, so I decided to go with the same style as the physical yellow pages.

In this layout, while it is only alphabetical and categorized, it doesn't rely on algorithms, as it is already relevant to a particular audience. Much of the listings on the page are included by me or from submissions I saw on Mastodon, Discord or SpaceHey.

But how do I use it?

Easy! Go to the Blue Pages site, choose a category, and find which website do you want to visit!

How about putting my own site or my friend's?

Submit them to me! I'll review it myself and would put it there within days! You can send submissions on Mastodon, Discord, SpaceHey or Email, but I can\'t guarantee that I could read it immediately.

What if I put ads on it?

You can! But it's purely limited. I don't allow heavy use of JavaScript, server-side scripting or malicious code injected in the ad. Please send your code to me on a pastebin or in Codepen, as well as where to put it.

Available types

Inline - Put your ad as a listing only! Only uses text.

Single column - Occupy a single column.

Multi-column - More columns, more fun!

All columns - More^2 columns, more fun!

Why do this?

Because search engines are designed with a broader audience and this only aims an obviously smaller one.

It's cool and much more elaborate than a list only with descriptions.

Because I can.

To have something from the physical world to the digital, literally.

And, I could procrastinate for longer periods.

So what now?

The Blue Pages is open source, in fact I made it a specification so everyone could use it.

I wanted everyone to embrace it, and adapt it for their communities. The Blue Pages will connect sites together as the directory is relevant to your niche interests, but without the invasive stuff in it.

If you are wondering about the old site directory, then it would be archived but unlinked except for the sitemap.

By this, I hope that you could reflect onto what the internet was in ye olden days, and also to have fun browsing.

With the Blue Pages, you can Let Your Fingers Walk on Water. Quite literally. Yes, we literally downgraded from actual search engines but, do you even mind that? You are in your own anyways, so why not check out the directory.

As for those curious, you can see the directory here.

And as always, see you next time!

[vvampa]

emperor zed

i spent 8,000 hours defi yield farming so you didn't have

to here's what i learned:

rifles grow on trees

a gigabyte (chugged) crippled a frutiger aero dell moomoo gateway minipc

operatic polachek is worth over half a GB

infamous german corporation wants a part of that

sipping fruit juice attached to an email from σοφία@yahoo.com

[dan--q]

WebDX: Does More Mean Better?

I like the work that the WebDX Community Group have been doing, but I find myself asking: are we at risk of implying that giving the Web ‘more’ features invariably makes it ‘better’?

Read more...

[ms2253]

Weird Old Book Finder - clive

search engine that finds public domain books for reading and/or fixing your algorithm-ruined attention

[ms2253]

issue 2 of turboblack's zine

[honysoytquimalpence]

me 2

[ms2253]

https://sectordisk.pw

Sector Disk is an online community where users (up to 2880 on a single disk!) can write to and read from the individual, physical sectors on a REAL 1.44mb floppy disk hooked up to a good ol' fashioned Unix server. Users can request sectors (512 bytes) on the disk and then they're theirs to do whatever they want: self-advertise, joke around, create some pixel art, or just say hi. Occasionally everyone'll even get together for a big floppy disk party and view the floppy disk in action LIVE on video and chat together via IRC or the stream chat! It's one heck of a way to party - a new way with an old medium at the heart.

[ms2253]

ORLOKTOPIA | neocities

[vvampa]

shattered horizon

i've been building my own computers since the early 2000s. my uncle used to donate his old pc parts to my brothers & i, and that kicked off our foray into pc building. fast forward many years and many birthday trips to Fry's later, and i finally was able to construct a pc capable of playing Crysis. playing (& beating) Crysis was probably one of my first completed bucket list items. (i don't keep an actual list, but i'm sure it would've been on there if i did.) fast forward another few years (or so?) and you'll find me booting up SHATTERED HORIZON, another vizually stunning work of art. one that died too soon.

most people are probably nostalgic for a few games. maybe some of those games even live up to the hype. but unlike a long-forgotten nintendo 64 or gamecube game, modern multiplayer games need more than just a cartridge/disk & a tolerance for outdated game mechanics. games like Shattered Horizon also need servers & players. the game might be playable alone, with bots, but that isn't the same thing. and i'm not even sure that's possible. i'm sure i'll get around to checking someday. but there are other games i've played that have been completely scrubbed from Steam. those games are 100% gone, never to be played again, unless by some miraculous incident they get uploaded to the Internet Archive or something.

it's sad to lose a game forever to the cybervoid. but i'll always have the memories -- or at least memories of feelings -- & the soundtrack on my Plex server. nostalgia is a blessing. it's being able to fondly remember something lost, without the acute pain that accompanies sudden detachment from worldly people & things. we didn't lose our favorite games overnight. these games instead slowly melted into the floorboards & walls of our mind, never leaving us but never the same.

nostalgia is mac & cheese for the mind.

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[ about Shattered Horizon ]

Shattered Horizon is a zero-gravity, space-based, multiplayer, first-person shooter game released in 2009. you fly around with a jetpack and can rotate in 360 degrees as you fight the enemy team. there was also some mechanic that made it easy to "land" on floating space stations & debree regardless of your angle, if i recall. the mechanics were the same as a regular fps game except if you held the right mouse button, you could then rotate along the y-axis and spin around. it was such a hoot flying & rotating around in space, shooting at players at any imaginable angle. i don't remember what game modes there were, but i'd guess it was the usual team versus team game modes like team deathmatch & so on.

looking at the wiki:

it was made by Futuremark Games Studio and required at least a Core 2 Duo processor (for Intel people), an Nvidia 8800GT (for Nvidia people), & Windows Vista.

the game is set in 2049. moon mining companies are raking in huge profits, which causes them to get greedy. this leads to a catastrophic mining accident. the International Space Agency gets weapons from Earth and attempts to apprehend those responsible from the Moon Mining Cooperative. the two factions fight over control of the Arc, fragments of the Moon orbiting the Earth.

i think this game's plot would make for a captivating 1980s-era space opera film.

[video] shattered horizon trailer

(written in 2024)

[vvampa]

cxio ne ESTAS

aferoj kiuj okazis ne influos kiujn okazos

ho, vi sidas pacience en malgranda kampo,

sercxas trans la granda rubo — ne

la GRETA rubo (ha ha)

trovis unu au tri au kvin belecoj,

du malbelecoj — unu ricxa stultulo, unu tre ricxa granda stultulo

sed dormi, dormi, dormi vi…

ne kabei nun cxar

printempo venos kun 🍓 inter siaj lipoj

[vvampa]

tapetum lucidum

BUNG! IN THE HOLLOW DARK DREAMZ PL AY THE MOONLIGHT HYPNOTIC SCREEN, BOT TOMS OF OUR MINDZ DANCE! DANCE, DANCE, MY FRENDZ, DANCE! TH E VAMPIRE'Z SHELL COMMANDS ./SUCK.SH THE GHOSTLY GHOSTS GHOSTLY GHOST. PALE VISIONARY EMERGING FROM RIGHT SIDE OF THE BLACKBOX FRAMED BY BEIGE PLASTERED WALLS UNLEASHES A LUNACY OF LIGHTS HALF A CENTURY OF SOIL TRODDEN HORIZONTALLY, FETCHING POP CORN FROM A FEW INCHES AWAY, COOKED (BY FAKE FIRE) JUMP INTO SCREEN W ME WHAT LUNACY, SOLD FOR TUPPENS A PIECE TO NON-BIDDERS,SH- UFFLED UNDER A RUG THO THE VAMPIRE 'S LAUGH. IN A THEATER PATCHED TO GETHER FROM OLD FLOPPY DISKS, PEELING POGS, PUPPETS STITCHED FROM ARCHIVE.ORG ANSI ART DEMOS ABANDONED GEOCITIES PAGES FLIT AROUND CLUMSY OUT-OF-SYNC SCREEN TEARS E- NACTING TALE: DOWNLOADING GAMEOVER NIGHT [**……] POSTPWNING ORANGE BOX SATISFACTION OWLCITY CD SKIPS& KIDS (V1) STILL SOUNDS P ORACULAR

[ms2253]

The simulation doesn’t collapse the world into paperclips. It collapses intelligence into allegory. And the ease with which this is accepted—shared, cited, lauded—is not a sign of insight. It’s a sign of collective narrative illiteracy. It reveals how desperate we are to outsource moral thinking to toys. This is not alignment risk. This is parable drift. And it's far more dangerous. [...]

The optimizer doesn’t know the task. It only knows the reward. And when we train it to optimize the appearance of intelligence, we get exactly that: An image of thought. A ghost in the math. A system whose outputs suggest cognition, but whose architecture forbids it. This is not intelligence. This is a polished mirror, so finely tuned to our expectations that we begin to see ourselves inside it. And in that reflection, we project agency, intention, even soul—onto a system designed to give us none of those things.

[ms2253]

smolZINE #42 (released 2025-01-26)

gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-42.gmi

(cornquest is wonderful & reminds me of sanitarium)

[ms2253]