vogon

the evil "Website Boy"

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bluesky
if bluesky has a million haters I am one of them, if bluesky has one hater that's me, if bluesky has no haters then I am no more on the earth (more details: https://cohost.org/vogon/post/1845751-bonus-pure-speculati)
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sanqui
@sanqui

So one of my hobbies is archiving web sites, and the Czech freehost sweb.cz recently announced that it's going offline by the end of the month. That's tens of thousands of websites from the "golden era" of personal homepages 2000-2010 going down the drain. Luckily I have the know-how to preserve a significant number of them. There's a lot of gems there and I might start a separate page to showcase some, but that's not what this post is about, just a little prelude.

So a lot of these old websites have hit counters, you know the deal.

Well, a lot of these are dead, and many are written in such a way, that in Czech, without the image loading you end up simply with a sentence like "You are a visitor of this web site." Which to me is like, unexpectedly metaphysical and deep? Because like, you read the sentence, take it at face value, and only then realize there was supposed to be a counter there. Well, that's just a vibe I wanted to share.

Aside: During the making of this post, I discovered that if I named the picture hit-counter.jpg, uBlock origin would block loading it! So now it's called hyt-counter.jpg.


JillKatze
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Jill Katze: i was recently digging through a bunch of archives of old web sites that similarly had non-working view counters and missing inline counters also lead to some fun sentences in english
Jill Katze: "people have seen this page"
Jill Katze: "you are the person to visit this page"
Jill Katze: "sailor scouts have been here since 3/24/97"
Jill Katze: truly some of the sentences ever

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