Books from 100 years ago in digital. Beautiful resource.
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Browser based game with slidehopping. I like to call it the only non dead movement shooter.
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Obviously doesn't exist now!
Woman got special government permission to go motorcycling in Chernobyl. She took pictures.
The site is still around.
http://www.vk2zay.net/ Maybe this is obscure enough?! I miss hobby sites like this!
Wow those calculators
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If it makes you feel better, I don't think I ever really knew how to do it.
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A Girls World.
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If it still exists I doubt it's anything like the original.
For a loooong time I kept 'Amish Rake Fight / GFY' on a bookmark to send to people.
It was just a page with a middle finger saying 'Go Fuck Yourself' and a counter saying how many people have been told to go Fuck Themselves.
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Pylon appreciation
Taxonomy of bread fasteners
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Taxonomy of bread fasteners
Impressiveβ¦ thatβs what I call dedication.
Pathetic motorways
This look like a successor to RoadToNoWhere
https://web.archive.org/web/20071017115032/http://road-to-nowhere.co.uk/index.html
Taxonomy of bread fasteners
Nope, I saw a video about the rarest bread clip and it talked about that site
Oh darn, it seems the website isn't up anymore. It was, to my knowledge, never archived and never properly indexed by a search engine. I have no screenshots, so it's basically lost media. All this to say it's unlikely anyone here has heard of it.
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I guess https isn't strictly necessary if you're not handling user input.
There's still an argument to be made that https prevents malicious code from being injected in transit.
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spoiler because finding it yourself is definitely an experience
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Mahalo, spelunkers
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The amount of insane content on that site is astounding. It was kinda nice how fast the plain HTML pages loaded though.
Holy fuck that is unhinged. Side note, who is behind that site, and why do they have so many ads for Alex Jones? Kind of liking how they all link to the infowars domain, which is going to be owned by someone else soon hopefully though.
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Not obscure enough, cool site though! Used to post there and amateurpyro, mtbs3d and a few others
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