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.
