Wiby
I stumbled across this search engine and it only has results for Web 1.0, old school websites, you know the ones with the repeating background, dancing baby, and junk like that.
It is called Wiby. In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer-savvy people about subjects they were personally interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded everything else. All the personalized websites are hidden among a pile of commercial pages. Google isn’t great at finding them, its focus is on finding answers to technical questions, and it works well; but finding things you didn’t know you wanted to know, which was the real joy of web surfing, no longer happens. In addition, many pages today are created using bloated scripts that add slick cosmetic features in order to mask the lack of content available on them. Those pages contribute to the blandness of today’s web.
The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet. In addition, Wiby helps vintage computers to continue browsing the web, as pages indexed are more suitable for their performance.
Wiby has a “surprise me…” button, which is like Google’s “I Feel Lucky” button. I clicked it a dozen times and I wasn’t disappointed.
Here is what I got:
Furby Autopsy – http://phobe.com/furby/
Synchronet BBS List – http://www.synchro.net/
The Ragens – http://www.theragens.com/ – A family website for the Ragens
163rd Acoustical Society of America Meeting – https://acoustics.org/
A.N. Lucas’s Web Lounge –
https://anlucas.neocities.
Alien Abduction Experience and Research – https://www.abduct.com/ – The world’s oldest and largest research website into the Alien Abduction and UFO experience
The mediocre lab – https://www.cs.unm.edu/~
The Saudi Network – https://www.thesaudimarket.
MANWEB – http://manweb-remembered.co.
Ansi Love –https://www.ansilove.org/ – ANSi to PNG converter
