for the site were used:

• HTML 4.01
• Web 1.0 Hosting and its built-in guestbook widget, counters
• HamsterCMS
• JavaScript (only for modern browsers)
• Autotranslator (only for modern browsers)

the page is viewed by a text browser Links

There's been a few minor updates, but it's largely unchanged since 2009. If you want to see a horror show, view page source for a taste of how bad web dev used to be. Bunch of autogenerated garbage from Microsoft Publisher 11 like this:

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MS Publisher also screwed up the title into this 🤦:

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Modern web dev has its downsides but it's still streets ahead of when it was under the iron grip of Microsoft (or M$ as you used to say back in the day if you were cool on /.)

Look at it all. The low-res background that doesn't scale right. All the styled UI as just tables of images. The awkward typography.

Two comments in particular stand out:

This is going to be a big turning point in the history and character of this country, I think. posted by Doug at 8:51 AM on September 11, 2001 [207 favorites +] [!]

my greatest fear is how our government is going to respond. more erosion of freedom in the name of security. mark my words. posted by rebeccablood at 12:10 PM on September 11, 2001 [311 favorites +] [!]

Way, way back when the internet was still being charted as if it was some mysterious country, one of my favorite things to do was just to spend a solid chunk of time on StumbleUpon -- bouncing from random website to random website. It was such a useful tool for just finding niche sites, some of which I still use to this day.

This site will send you to a random IndieWeb site and even has RSS feeds to send a set amount of random blog entries to your feed. Glad that there's still sites like this out there in the ether!

https://indieblog.page/

This site is a huge collection of simulation applets for analog circuit, filters, acoustics, general harmonic stuff, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, linear algebra, and so on.

The analog circuit simulator in particular is very feature rich. I have used it to design some synth circuits in lieu of/addition to breadboarding.

Also try the acoustics ones, especially the ripple tank. The examples drop down has a bunch of cool setups like speaker designs, mirrors, lenses, mechanical filters(!), and can even simulate temperature (impedance) gradients.

This one is Ray Wilson's DIY synthesizer website.

I first saw him on youtube, screwing around with an echo rockit noise box. I was hypnotized.

I found his site and was hooked. I spent the next couple years making synthesizer modules at a manic pace.

The magical thing about Ray's site is is his teaching style. He gives the circuit schematics, but also explanations of how/why they work in language that is pretty easy to understand. He really approaches electronics from a practical standpoint rather than what you'd get in an intro class somewhere. This website was my introduction to electronics, and it can get you far when it comes to understanding analog design and signal processing.

You can really get a feel for Ray's personality from his writing on the site. He died in 2016, and I weirdly get a little choked up when I look at that e

This is the website of Gene Slover (now deceased). He was a firecontrolman in the navy back in the day. Now I don't care about the navy, nor do I really care about Gene. What I do care about is mechanical computers.

Firecontrolman in this context is the dude who operated the Mk 1 fire control computer on navy ships. Gene's website is significant to me because it has a massive amount of information on the design and operation of that computer.

It's wild to me that information this detailed is out there, cataloged by someone who actually operated the system.

Here's a short writeup that I posted elsewhere to explain why I think the computer is so cool:

The mark 1 fire control computer is an entirely mechanical computer that reads in the speed of the ship in water, the wind direction and speed, the pitch and roll from waves, the ballistic characteristics of the guns all the way down to how worn in the barrels were, and so on. Then a gun director feeds it the bearing, elevation,

This section of the Project Rho site is one that I have actually used for real projects in the past. The section gives guidelines for creating nomograms, or alignment charts.

Nomograms are graphical representations of a math equation. For a basic 3 variable equation, given 2 of the variables, you simply lay a straight edge across the chart to read the answer from the 3rd scale.

The specific page I linked is a cheatsheet of "standard forms". If you can manipulate your equation into one of these forms, then making it into a nomogram is trivial.

This page is one of very few resources online that will take you step by step through building a nomogram. The intended purpose of the page is to be a resource for board game designers, but I have found it useful in creating time/distance/speed nomograms, various engineering calculations, and calculators for film photography and darkroom printing.

Even if you aren't a math nerd, I hope you find the

This site has been around forever. It gained popularity for a while when the Google search algorithm had it ranking highly for a lot of terms. That went away for some unknown reason with an algorithm update, but the site is still plugging along, its users cranking out quality posts every single day.

I put together a list of onramps to the old web. Very excited to find this community so that maybe I can grow my list!

This blog was posted by its creator under a lemmy post discussing the issues with modern websites. It is delightfully minimalist, and the post I linked is a call to action to return the early web. As well, they have some interesting stuff linked on their site.