If you want one that isn't actually from that time, just feels like it, I'd say https://tildes.net/
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Not a website, but since you mention BBSes...one thing that would look pretty familiar to a 1990s Internet user would be most of the text-based MUDs, the ancestor of MMORPGs, that are around.
The MUD Connector is still around, and still has a list of active MUDs.
While I suspect that most dedicated MUDders use dedicated clients, the base protocol is still normally telnet, and you can use a plain old telnet client to play...a protocol that predates Internet Protocol itself.
I still mud on occasion. I used TinyFugue back when i started mudding in 88 or 89 (maybe lot was 89/90). I then used zMUD and later cMUD for years. Now I use MUDlet.
Your way back search engine https://wiby.me It even comes a surprise me button
I have the suprise page set as start page in my browser, so i get a surprise website, when i open a browser window.
No JavaScript sites on onionland
All of them, if you browse with Links.
For better experience I recommend elinks.
Still in active development.
pretty sure links is just a link to elinks now in most distros.
https://search.marginalia.nu/ is a search engine for non-commercial content and is pretty great regarding the old-school factor :-)
My healthcare services websites. Their website and mobile app require separate logins. The website logs in then redirects to a completely different website.
They have a tax-free “store” that feels like a completely different website.
Everything is laid out using what seems like the idea of middle management and not modern design philosophy.
TreasuryDirect also feels classic. If you're not familiar, it's a US government website to buy and sell certain types of treasury bonds. Some great features:
- an image so you know you didn't typo your username (haven't seen that in well over a decade)
- clicking a link is a new page, and clicking back breaks stuff and makes you login again
- until recently, you couldn't paste in the password field
It does do some modern-ish things with page layout, but not that modern, like maybe early 2000s modern. But it's perennially stuck about 20 years in the past.
Fark.com
They are trying to be 90s, but I love it. I thought they had a site counter at some point, but maybe I am misremembering and it was just the guest book.
gradients, animated GIFs, "best browsed on", and a frame once you click enter. Only thing it's missing is an index page.
frame
Now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time.
Story time: In the super old days, I want to say 1996? 1997? I wrote a four or five line HTML that would split the screen into two horizontal frames, then split those each into vertical frames, then those horizontal -- ad infinitum.
I don't think there were any browsers that didn't fail that test. I'm sure I only checked IE3 or IE4 and Netscape. One of them locked the computer up and had to be killed via "close program." The other one locked the machine up and it became completely unresponsive, needing to be hard booted.
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I'm on a couple forum sites still (both phpbb I think). I still read fark.com but rarely if ever comment anymore.
I get most of the stills for my Star Trek memes from trekcore.com which has a pretty old-web feel to it.
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most private trackers
telnet bbs.lunduke.com
Oh man, fuck Bryan Lunduke. He aged like milk.
neopets.com/neoboards/boardlist.phtml?board=55
fixed
They both look the same on mobile. 🤷🏻♀️
Wimp.com
Irregular webcomics
Dinosaur comics (qwantz.com)
Hubski