zombo.com was launched in 1999. I remember in high school you’d see the new fancy web kiosk’s the school put up just displaying it as a joke. and being locked out of the address bar so you couldn’t change it. The fact that this url has been renewed, maintained, and updated with all the advancements web browsers have made in the last 24 years, just to have this useless site still exist amuses me to no end.
It doesn’t surprise me since the infinite is possible at zombocom.
The only limit of course, being ourselves.
It’s very interesting and almost kind of sad to me that ‘kids these days’ I think truly don’t get how… scrabbly the early internet was. It was this truly and genuinely unique environment where people were kind of scrapping things together into things that probably just they thought were funny or cool, and then just kind of sending it out into the world.
It’s so different from today where advanced algorithms and profitability guidelines have co-opted that almost anarchic environment
Relevant xkcd
Are you lost? http://perdu.com has you covered since June of 1996!
Oh damn I had completely forgotten about that one!
Zombo is still amazing. One of my other favorites: https://chickenonaraft.com/
I clicked on this using Voyager for Lemmy, and won’t stop playing now that I’ve closed the browser window, lol
Really amped up writing this comment, though
haha you’ve been pwned by a chicken on a raft. rather distinct!
Ah yes, I sometimes reminice about all the good times I spent with a chicken on a raft.
Remember looking at the time counter to see when the first verse would repeat? Ah, good times.
I think when Flash died the regular site became HTML5, did it not?
Yes, it was down for a few days… but remember “You can do anything at Zombocom.” So it came back.
updated with all the advancements web browsers have made in the last 24 years
That’s one of the neat parts of the web-- it’s very backwards compatible. Maybe they upgraded to https when that became a thing, but the maintenance costs of a site that small/simple are fairly low. Still, it shows that someone cares enough to keep it going!
Okay, while we’re talking about really old novelty websites, I’ve got one I remember, but can’t find. The best way I can describe it is “organic paisley Flash.” It was just a lot of colorful alien-biological shapes that, when you clicked on certain parts of them, would move around and change in an animated transition to another weird abstract scene.
Anybody know WTF site I’m describing?
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