Saw the post here about how fun little browser projects are a dying art form and it stuck with me. I've been trying to make a few. No accounts, no ads, nothing to buy.

56k.rip - a Windows 95 style desktop you dial into, modem sound and all dialup.rip - same idea, but a 90s Mac lolchat.rip - a 90s style chat room with real people. Saturdays 2pm Central is when it's busiest. 18+ culdesac.site - one button that drops you on a random small website iching.site - an I Ching reader

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40040996

Inspired by this post but the other way around. Which channels (any subject) do you think have stayed true to their beginnings and are still worth watching today? My pick would be Gamers Nexus.

(if you can't get into tumblr) i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it. there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form. anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above. A Better World - create an alternate history timeline Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy ZenGM - simulate sports Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games) Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface The Cafe & Diner - mystery game The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game Miniconomy - player driven economy game Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil. if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

A collection of high-quality, free, online creativity tools.

Nationalclothing.org about national clothing, the history of traditional dress, and the modern life of vintage pieces of clothes

Old website with great resources on the seasonal themes and kimono - might have to go back to 2014 posts to find them.

Given all the praise and hype that surrounds Duolingo, I wanted to articulate why, in my opinion, it is at best, a supplement, and what to use in its place if you truly wish to learn Irish.

I’ll begin by focusing on the issues with Duolingo in general, followed by those particular to the Irish course itself later on.

I am not going to focus on Duolingo’s highly inflated numbers; while they are better than they were previously, they are still incredibly misleading, as they count anyone who has done a lesson at any time in the past year. Let’s just say, there are not nearly as many people learning Irish as is claimed.

home of the Ian Knot, the world's fastest shoelace knot. If you want to lace shoes, tie shoes or learn about shoelaces – this is the place!

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Here is a collection of my videos that aim to baptise use into music theory by fire! Across this set of videos I will be dipping you into a range of music theory topics to prime you for understanding more advance concepts.

Many web-sites showcase audio software for Linux, each with it's own look and focus. None of them really met my personal need when I finally made the switch to Linux, so..

Some goals of this site:

-Make it easy and quick for musicians to find the tools they need -Focus on good quality software with proper UI -Promote the great developers that make the effort of supporting Linux -Showcase the software using modern web technology

While it is true that all the information you need to create and maintain a Webcomic is available on the Internet, finding the stuff can be difficult. For example, finding character design sheets and comic storyboard sheets can be quite challenging, not to mention the problem in finding a Manga A4-to-A5 Layout Board that you can actually get to print on your inkjet printer without losing the edges! We have brought together these various elements and put them on this page to make your life a little easier.

The downloads below are divided into three sections: fourteen design, plotting, and storyboard sheets to help the artist and writer create their characters and plot and organize the stories they intend to tell; seven Comic Art-boards used in the Comic industry today, both in Japan and in the U.S; and six comic-book layout sheets (also called signature ladders) to help you fit your comic into the appropriately-sized book.

ooh.directory is a place to find good blogs that interest you.