Since hearing about Wiby, I've been excited to poke around and have a look at the sites I might find using it. After finding a couple of pages that I just loved - due to aesthetic, content, or just Cause - I decided to do a little Wiby blog to document some sites I really like, and might want to check back on in the future.
I cannot really describe to you exactly why I love this site so much. There's no reason. I am not particularly interested in calculators. But something about the look of this site is so perfect to me, exactly the kind of aesthetics I love in old websites. It's just a little rough around the edges in the perfect way that makes it feel so obviously like a hand-coded passion project. I'm intrigued by the mention of old calculators specifically for pre-decimal Sterling too, so I guess I will be poking around at the content here haha.
I have no idea what Crimson Skies is, and I'd never heard of it before I was put onto this site by Wiby, but I do love the aesthetic of it. The alternate-history info, and the State-Countries they've come up with, is super interesting, and I just have to admit, the look of the site drew me in. The concept is very interesting and I appreciate the amount of detail put into it. Definitely a site for poking around at.
The intro of this page being written 'in character' for the Empire just really immediately drew me in. I love the look of it, the tone of it, everything. It feels very of its time, and I do love that. I haven't poked around at the essays and calculations, but I am intrigued by knowledge of their existence. Why not come back a few times just to poke around a little and read a handful of things? Either way, fun to have stumbled on!
I love this website. The design, the layout, the premise. The way it's written is so fun and well-themed, and interesting too. I've seen so many Furby mods, but not much which shows the inner workings of the Furby. I just had so much fun poking around this little site. RIP Toh-Loo-Ka, your death has served a noble cause - namely, online entertainment for strangers.
This shit's fucking self-explanatory. It's a motherfucking website. Shit is simple and clean. Fucking king of minimalism. Bit aside, coming across this website did give me a little chuckle, and reminded me to not worry too much about my pages being super complex or involved. Sometimes simplicity is the motherfucking key.
This website is seriously just so fucking cool. So many pictures of the cosmos, all of them super awesome, and all of them with an explanation from NASA astronomers! They have an archive going back all the way to June 1995, so there's a photo for my birthday! You should go have a look and try to find what your picture is too.
Technically Wiby booted me onto the "Disney Animated Films Timeline" page, but to be honest, I've had a lot of fun poking around at the various links in here. I don't actually know about a bunch of the stuff they have here, but I do adore the really retro design of the page, and it's got some interesting stuff, so I'm glad I found it!
Really, this page is just a news article from 2001 about the guy who made the first webpage. But, it was definitely interesting to just stumble upon while going on my little wiby adventures. I read through this and it was pretty interesting, so I've decided to link it in here, especially since it's got a very minimalist early-web layout.
A really interesting looking page. The amount of time it must have taken to format this is crazy to me. I technically got booted to the sleep page, but this whole site is one of those cryptic rabbitholes that you can just poke around in endlessly. Not quite old-web to me, but still an interesting perspective on what web-making can be.
This site is cute as hell - the pink, the frog graphics everywhere, the subsections. Even the font of the site (Comic Sans...?) really reminds me of old websites I used to find back in the day. This site has so much to look through, and as well as seemingly having a lot of good information on frog keeping, there are games and quizzes and jokes. This not only feels like an endless pit of links, it's also got so much old-skool basic html and css coding charm that I can't help but adore it.
I was, simply put, intrigued by this page. As an English speaker I am of course well versed in how fucking stupid English is to spell and pronounce, so I was definitely interested. It's very long and very involved, so I don't think I'll get through it all in one go, but interesting to have stumbled upon and definitely worth revisiting.
I have to confess to an interest in true crime and tragedy, and Columbine is one of my biggest interests in that area. I have a lot of books, I've watched documentaries and done various research of my own, so stumbling on this on Wiby was definitely interesting for me. The fact that this site has been running and updating since the day after the event, giving a look into how knowledge and reactions developed over time. It's also beautifully categorised. I will definitely be combing through this website more.
Technically, I didn't find this page through Wiby, but it's a real old-skool web page, so I just wanted to include it here. The technical skill of the LEGO builds on this page are insane, and I really like that each one has a page showing their behind-the-scenes construction. It's a pity it was last updated in 2009, but it does also mean it's a perfect time-capsule for webpages of the time. I particularly love the 'voted best' award from the year 2000.
This website just fascinated me because I had never even thought about the possibility of an 'anti-bubble' before - but once I did, it made total sense, and really intrigued me! It's a relatively small site with only a handful of pages, but the information here is just interesting. Maybe one day when I have some time I'll try my own little anti-bubble experiments...
I just really love old fanpages, I'll be honest. I also like gory splatter horror, and retro gaming, so this website just really has it all! I've never played the Splatterhouse games, but I have to admit that this website has me intrigued. I also just love how much stuff is here - there's trivia! There's music! There's fanfiction, that's so cool!!! Definitely worth poking around at. And, bonus!!! Still active!!
First of all, the theme and layout of this website? Immaculate. I absolutely love it, it's such a specific vibe but it's one that I am loving. Second of all, there's some really cool information here! I love the Tiger Territory pages, and the New Zealand pages are really interesting. The Leonardo da Vinci pages also have so much detail, and I admire the dedication to making educational resources available. Lots to explore!
This website is definitely a rabbit-hole and a half. I have to admit that it kind of makes me want to try out building a structure with earthbags...Some sort of shed maybe, or home extension? I like the sound of the sustainability, the structural possibilities look interesting, and I enjoy the quite simple but elegant look the photos on the site have... It's most certainly an interesting website, ready for hours of scouring and exploring.
I absolutely hate modern AI, as any good netizen should, but I remember old-fashioned chatbots and I have to admit, I miss them a little. When I was a kid Chatbot and iGod were the main ones I talked to, but when I stumbled across this guy on Wiby, I admit I was excited! It's just as awkward and weird as I remember them being, a little bit stilted, filled with non-sequiturs, sometimes weirdly obsessed with being intimate... But, hey, it is good fun! I like that this guy has a couple of different age settings too, and he's good to mess about with.
A site full of ASCII art!! Some of these are amazing, and again, I'm almost tempted to try getting into ASCII art... the closest I ever got was some of the old emoticons, or our good friend Bob. My keyboard has ASCII emoji shortcuts, but these pieces are way, way cooler than that. They're sorted, and copyable, and there's a bunch more information on ASCII on this site too. Good fun for poking around ^.^
What a fortunate wiby run-in!! Sam Neill is, probably, one of my favourite actors ever - starting with seeing him as Alan Grant in Jurassic Park, my favourite film ever, and then after that in The Omen III: Final Conflict, part of one of my favourite horror franchises ever... I've loved him in everything I've seen him in, and I plan to watch more of his filmography too. So, finding this old fanpage full of information and photos was awesome!! I'm definitely going to be havng a good look around here.
As I mentioned, I've been getting more and more interested in retro gaming and computing - going past my own nostalgia, into further reaches of tech history! My dad has talke dbefore about his interest in PCs while growing up, and the tech stuff he used to do. He still has his old Commodore 64 in his attic!! So, seeing this website compiling information and collecting old computer systems is really cool to me. There's also a bunch on vintage consoles, including ones I'm particularly interested in/that I remember, like the Atari Jaguar and Sega Genesis!! I love a goo online museum, and this is one!
