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This is a thread dedicated to discovery and documentation of people's obscure technology websites, usually revolving around the creation of their weird personal projects.
Included below are a few examples to get the idea.
Note that most of these websites are already well archived by archive.org, and have little content that would be considered offense, even by current insane standards, so doing my own archiving seemed redundant.
G0UTY
http://home.freeuk.net/dunckx/wireless/wireless.html
Random British PhD, makes their own RF equipment.
g3ynh
https://g3ynh.info/
Another British PhD, makes similar stuff. They painstakingly cataloged a ton of random old technology.
Spark, Bang, Buzz
http://www.sparkbangbuzz.com/
Similar thing, but this guy specializes in MacGyver'ing some weird stuff.
They made their own lasers.
And wrote a guide on how to throw anything and make it stick.
Overall, these types of sites seem to have a few things in common:
-Web 1.0/early 2000's website style
-Lots of documentation of years of projects
-Appears to actually be based in some real science, not outright schizo nonsense
-Site is run by a single person, usually involved with HAM radio, physics, etc.
-Hard to, but not impossible, to find by Googling. Basically the websites have weird URLs (some of them use radio call signs), and don't use any SEO, so they seem to have gone pretty much unnoticed.
I think that the fascinating thing about these sites is that they seem relatively untouched by modern web culture. The sites and their creators seem pretty much frozen in web 1.0, but the sites themselves continued to be updated years after that era had passed.
If this thread gets some more traction I'll give the OP some more TLC, but I thought this would be a good place to start to gauge interest in the collection of these types of sites, and see if anyone else has anything to add.
Included below are a few examples to get the idea.
Note that most of these websites are already well archived by archive.org, and have little content that would be considered offense, even by current insane standards, so doing my own archiving seemed redundant.
G0UTY
http://home.freeuk.net/dunckx/wireless/wireless.html
Random British PhD, makes their own RF equipment.
g3ynh
https://g3ynh.info/
Another British PhD, makes similar stuff. They painstakingly cataloged a ton of random old technology.
Spark, Bang, Buzz
http://www.sparkbangbuzz.com/
Similar thing, but this guy specializes in MacGyver'ing some weird stuff.
They made their own lasers.
And wrote a guide on how to throw anything and make it stick.
Overall, these types of sites seem to have a few things in common:
-Web 1.0/early 2000's website style
-Lots of documentation of years of projects
-Appears to actually be based in some real science, not outright schizo nonsense
-Site is run by a single person, usually involved with HAM radio, physics, etc.
-Hard to, but not impossible, to find by Googling. Basically the websites have weird URLs (some of them use radio call signs), and don't use any SEO, so they seem to have gone pretty much unnoticed.
I think that the fascinating thing about these sites is that they seem relatively untouched by modern web culture. The sites and their creators seem pretty much frozen in web 1.0, but the sites themselves continued to be updated years after that era had passed.
If this thread gets some more traction I'll give the OP some more TLC, but I thought this would be a good place to start to gauge interest in the collection of these types of sites, and see if anyone else has anything to add.
