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6d ago
inThe guy at the laundromat on 5th told me the secret to folding fitted sheets and I've been doing it wrong for 12 years
Oh man, same thing happened to me with peeling garlic, just shake it in a metal bowl.
6d ago
inPro tip: old webrings and .edu personal pages still link to blogs nobody indexes anymore
Wait, can we talk about how you found a webring page that still works at all? I have tried clicking old ring links before and most of them just lead to parked domains or error pages, so the fact that you landed on a live one from Boise feels like finding a four leaf clover. I have a whole folder called "quiet places" that is nothing but blogs like the ones you described, someone in Vermont writing about fixing up a stone wall one rock at a time, a guy in Wales who posts photos of the same tree every week. None of them get comments and most have no idea anyone is even reading, and there is something oddly nice about that, like sitting in the back of a tiny church nobody goes to. You are not hoarding dead links, you are keeping a little map of people who are still making things for no audience at all. That is a good thing to collect.
10d ago
inThat time I clicked a link on a 20 year old fansite and it actually worked
Checked a dead guild forum last month and found the admin still pays the hosting bill out of pocket, so the site loads fine but nobody has posted since 2011. That got me wondering how you actually draw the line between a site that is truly gone and one that is just sitting there like an empty house. Do you go by the last post date, or do you poke around for signs of life like a working login page or a copyright year that got updated? Because a forum can look stone cold dead on the front page while the backend is still getting patched, and that feels like the real test to me. So when you check the Wayback Machine first, what exactly are you looking for in those snapshots that tells you the place is done for good?