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To ZOMBO COM
Am I completely out of the loop here or do I simply not understand, what is happening here?
Anything and everything. The only limit is yourself. You can do anything at zombo.com!
The site that comes to mind is Ian's Shoelace Website. The ultimate guide about shoelaces. The most impactful/important thing for me was Ian's Knot, the fastest and most correct way to tie a shoe. I discovered this website in the mid-2000s and have been using his method since. Anyway, it's a fun and comprehensive website about shoelaces. https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm
Well im definetely checking this while i sing a g l e t AGLET
Any new philosophy or philosophy adjacent idea I discover and want a beginners level understanding over. Incredible stuff here.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/
The name explains it.
That's definitely https://noclip.website/
I love retro video games (and current games). And some badass implemented the rendering of several games and consoles in JavaScript just for fun, so that you can explore levels from many games right in your browser.
Note that I did say explore, not play. This website let's you fly the camera through the level like with a "no clip cheat" (hence the site name).
It somewhat works on mobile devices in landscape mode (and maybe also "show desktop page"), but is best viewed and controlled on a PC.
My go to etymology website.
This is the website I never knew I needed
Fun fact: noone knows the etymology of 'dog'.
Ha! I've got a shortcut for that on my phone's main page.
Saaaame, like every other day I hear a word and start guessing where it must've come from and then have to go check. Today it was cashmere (from Kashmir) got it right!
Ps if you're into this kinda thing check out the podcast lingthusiasm.
OMG I thought I was alone! Have you tried the "Words for Granted" podcast?
Yessss thats another great one! Ray Belli is a good host.
Pair it with sci-hub so you can actually read the whole articles and not just abstracts.
I was sticking with the 'one website'. Thanks for adding my second post. ;-)
Here's another: https://libgen.is/ - Library Genesis
Anna's Archive does it for me. It's so good!
Models-resource.com
Ripped old school 3D models
Wow, kinda makes me wish I had a purpose for these..
2D sprite sheets as well, no?
I don't know if it fits, but congrats, you've just reached the end of the internet. There's nothing more to see.
Niche hobby website from the 90s that's both really useful and still updated (somewhat) - the Parker pen penography. Look at all those pens! Genuinely the most useful source of info on the topic of old Parkers that isn't a big hefty coffee table book. Most of it probably isn't too interesting to non-fountain pen people, but there's some articles about the history of Parker and their decline that might be interesting if you like economics and buisness (like the one about the Itala
Incredibly niche! And funnily enough one Ive been on before.
People talking about Windows 98 and Pentium 3 processors all day long, feels just like home.
Well, Lemmy...
There was a website where if no messages where not sent in 24 Hours it would die, I sometimes wonder if it's still up
He's been running the site since 95. I've been visiting since 96 or 97. I even provided the hardcopy for the Big Lebowski shooting script which he posted a few months before the movie premiered.
When I I've exhausted my Subscribed (HOT) and All (Top 12 Hours) Lemmy feeds but still have the desire to scroll, I usually head over to Printables to look at 3D prints for a while... see what my printer will be doing for the next week. I really like the filtering options that model site has. Less often I'll do the same on MyMiniFactory
Webradio is a lot of fun, it's allowed me to listen to music from all over the world. Here's a couple links:
I remember finding a website once where you can create your own universe by clicking, dragging, etc and at some point it dies. I found it through Bored button. Hope to find it again.
The Library of Babel contains every permutation of 3200 characters pages, organized in rooms, shelves and books. It contains every work ever written by mankind, it contains the (brief) story of how you will die and of all the ways will not die. It is mostly gibberish but you can search for some pecific text. It's not yet completed as that would require all the pages to be combined na permutated between themselves, but there could literally be some new discoveries inside waiting to be read, and of course a whole lot of wrong knowledge
There are a couple websites that display all of the US road signs approved by the federal government. Some cool stuff on there. Wikipedia does it too but I like the organization of the websites.