# Weird Wide Web I miss all the quirky weird experimental personal idiosyncratic non-hustlery non-social websites of old. The webrings and the weird javascript and the blink tag and the project based writing. Also, [[Myspace]]. ## Quotes [[QUOTE - Jarred - By mistake, MySpace inspired a generation of teenagers to learn how to code.]] ## Links This is a funny, actually dynamic article (for example the Dark Mode button in the middle). It decries how the utopia of old is gone, because programmers and designers and product decided that users shouldn't be allowed to customize their products. - [Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?](https://jarredsumner.com/codeblog/) There's really a lot of cool sites linked in the [[Hacker News]] thread: - [Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (2019) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31999259) An article from 2004 about how the web already sucks (lol): - [Why The Web Sucks (You Just Don't Know It)](http://nothings.org/writing/websucks.html) From a discussion on [[Obsidian Discord]] about [[Learning in Public]]. - [The Cluetrain Manifesto — Entire Text Index Page](https://www.cluetrain.com/book/) ## Examples of weird websites I don't even know what this is: - [wired.wierd.neocities](https://mebious.neocities.org/Layer/Wierd.html)