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by neilv 2473 days ago
You could always start old-school Mosaic (with the tiniest bit of HTML5):

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html lang="en">
      <head>
        <title>Rafuino's site</title>
      </head>
      <body>
        <h1>Rafuino's site</h1>
        <p>Welcome!</p>
        <p><i>Under Construction</i></p>
      </body>
    </html>
It won't necessarily be displayed as serifed type, with raster aliasing, on gray, but you could CSS that in. :)
3 comments
btbytes 2473 days ago
This is good advice. I'm collecting websites like this ("handmade") here - https://www.btbytes.com/websites.html

My own website is compiled together with a python script, but aesthetically close to what you describe.

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abdullahkhalids 2473 days ago
Consider adding https://www.gwern.net/
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gwern 2471 days ago
Also worth checking: https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html https://danluu.com/
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onemoresoop 2473 days ago
I got lost for almost an hour in this little collection of yours. Bookmarked.
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forgotmypw3 2470 days ago
http://rusrs.com/

Compatible with Mosaic 1.0, Netscape 1.0, 3.0, 4.0, and IE 5.5, Links, Lynx, and NetSurf, among others tested.

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kylek 2473 days ago
You forgot <blink> and <marquee> (and some sick midi tunes)
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reaperducer 2473 days ago
You forgot <blink> and <marquee> (and some sick midi tunes)

Thanks to CSS animations, you can recreate <blink> and <marquee>.

I use it to recreate the Amiga's Guru Meditation Error when I'm debugging web sites.

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kylek 2473 days ago
Oh, I'm very aware (I actually do use those tricks on my personal page. Unfortunately I left out the midi. And of course it's loaded with stolen gifs from gifcities[0])

[0] https://gifcities.org/

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shantly 2473 days ago
I had a legit use for a marquee a few months ago and couldn't find a jank-free way to actually re-create all of its features. You can get the basics but even that sucks compared to just using <marquee> (heavier, more code).
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52-6F-62 2473 days ago
Dammit you beat me to it!

I second this. And a few stolen animated gifs. You know, for posterity.

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hnzix 2473 days ago
Calvin peeing on the MSIE logo and a 3D dancing baby.
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fenwick67 2473 days ago
sadly <bgsound> doesn't work anymore :(
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jraph 2473 days ago
Hey, that looks like my websites!

Ah ah, more seriously, this is a great template to copy paste so just a heads up: don't forget <meta charset="utf-8"/> before <title>.

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