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Comment by ObsoleteNerd | Hacker News Reader

It uses the Archive.org API for the actual cached websites, but I love all the other stuff added to the site, and the overall experience on the front page.

The creator’s page has a great little rant too which I agree with intensely:

http://theoldnet.com/~rich/

Bring back the old web.

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He captured perfectly my feelings:

>I don't even know where one site ends and one site begins anymore. Were they all created by the same person? Are all our sites wearing the same uniform like in some distopian novel?

Yeah that’s a particularly brilliant line.

Incidentally, Chrome wants to hide URLs from you, and via the "portal" element, play out little pieces of third-party content among a mass of tracking and ads, while pretending you're not on a Google site.

>Are all our sites wearing the same uniform like in some dystopian novel?

Well, they all have the same bootstraps https://getbootstrap.com

I think all of the stuff this guy wrote pretty much every single day. I miss the heyday of the web so much, especially as I've worked it in daily since those times.

Same. Made my first website in ~95 or so. I remember getting so excited when we could finally change the colours of links, and distinctly remember even back then people saying “this is the beginning of the end for usability on the web, how will users even know it’s a link?!”.

Now look at the mess we’ve created.

Wow, I relate to this rant as well (and am one of those people with an eye for UX).

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