What's your favourite niche website?
What's your favourite niche website?
Could be obscure hobby related or a useful underrated site.
You can do anything at Zombo.com. Anything at all. The only limit is yourself.
46Is this a meme or what? I can't do anything at all with Firefox in Android.
8The unattainable is unKNOWn at ZomboCom.
7try a legacy browser on bsd
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This is my favourite website
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I spent the last 10 minutes of my workweek on this site.
Thank you.4
Very niche here, but worth a look if you’re in the market for rechargeable batteries:
Crazy detailed benchmarks and technical analysis of flashlights, batteries, and chargers.
32Now thats niche!
2Is there an article on there about which one was best?
1No; there isn’t really a “best”. It’s dependent on what application the batteries will be used for. A high capacity, low current cell will be good for something like a remote control. For a high current draw device, you’d want cells that have low internal resistance / better current flow, likely at the cost of total capacity.
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ooh I AM in the market. Ty!
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The site that comes to mind is Ian's Shoelace Website. The ultimate guide about shoelaces. The most impactful/important thing for me was Ian's Knot, the fastest and most correct way to tie a shoe. I discovered this website in the mid-2000s and have been using his method since. Anyway, it's a fun and comprehensive website about shoelaces. https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm
18Well im definetely checking this while i sing a g l e t AGLET
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Any new philosophy or philosophy adjacent idea I discover and want a beginners level understanding over. Incredible stuff here.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/
The name explains it.
18Praxis
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My go to etymology website.
17This is the website I never knew I needed
4Fun fact: noone knows the etymology of 'dog'.
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Ha! I've got a shortcut for that on my phone's main page.
2Super cool thanks for posting this
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14If this website ever disappears from the internet it will herald the end of the world.
6You win.
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I don't know if it fits, but congrats, you've just reached the end of the internet. There's nothing more to see.
14Damn, it's been like what, 15 years or so, since I last visited that page.
1I'm not down voting you because I disagree with your pick, but because this answer needs to be at the very bottom of the thread.
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Pair it with sci-hub so you can actually read the whole articles and not just abstracts.
12I was sticking with the 'one website'. Thanks for adding my second post. ;-)
Here's another: https://libgen.is/ - Library Genesis
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That's definitely https://noclip.website/
I love retro video games (and current games). And some badass implemented the rendering of several games and consoles in JavaScript just for fun, so that you can explore levels from many games right in your browser.
Note that I did say explore, not play. This website let's you fly the camera through the level like with a "no clip cheat" (hence the site name).
It somewhat works on mobile devices in landscape mode (and maybe also "show desktop page"), but is best viewed and controlled on a PC.
13Ripped old school 3D models
102D sprite sheets as well, no?
1Wow, kinda makes me wish I had a purpose for these..
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http://www.thingsmagazine.net/
I love a good weblog with all kinds of link rabbit holes to fall down.
Also you can ring the fish doorbell and help release the fish: https://visdeurbel.nl/?fbclid=IwAR05zJk-mJiBIx5zq88S78E559cYHV-kkHOSM21MW1XX_e3jaqBfdTN-z30
10Omg! The fish doorbell just made my day, thank you
4Isn't that marvelous? I can't wait for spring.
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Thank you for this, it fills a hole that I have been missing on the internet for a long time
2I hope it's the fish doorbell you mean !
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People talking about Windows 98 and Pentium 3 processors all day long, feels just like home.
7He's been running the site since 95. I've been visiting since 96 or 97. I even provided the hardcopy for the Big Lebowski shooting script which he posted a few months before the movie premiered.
7My god I havent been here in a decade or more, what a dedicated fellow!
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Niche hobby website from the 90s that's both really useful and still updated (somewhat) - the Parker pen penography. Look at all those pens! Genuinely the most useful source of info on the topic of old Parkers that isn't a big hefty coffee table book. Most of it probably isn't too interesting to non-fountain pen people, but there's some articles about the history of Parker and their decline that might be interesting if you like economics and buisness (like the one about the Itala
7Incredibly niche! And funnily enough one Ive been on before.
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Tells what week it is.
7Ninite.com. Download the latest installers for basically all the free software you install on a new machine.
7Well, Lemmy...
6Curbside Classic a nice hobbyist site about Classic cars and related subjects. I go there every day, has a lot of extremely informative (but very niche) content
6nice, do you know other such websites but about topics other than vintage cars ... i think our internet today has become too boring as most people just visit the same 5 to 6 sites (YouTube , reddit , wiki , insta , twitter , and twitch) and call it a day .... websites like these make me curious about the days when we had separate websites like these for such niche content
2Cant think of anything off hand that niche that isnt car related. This site is much more general but has some great writing on it
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There was a website where if no messages where not sent in 24 Hours it would die, I sometimes wonder if it's still up
5This one?
4Yes! Oh my god! So happy to find it again!
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Taught me so much about bicycles.
5R.I.P. Sheldon
Edit: Downvoted for what? He died in 2008. Some people are f***ing weird.
2One of the Greats!! Rest In Power Sheldon! I'm always sending people to this site for bike related info. It's a gold mine of minutae.
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OP1.fun a neat little site for sharing OP1 synthesizer sounds and patches
4Self-explanatory
4When I I've exhausted my Subscribed (HOT) and All (Top 12 Hours) Lemmy feeds but still have the desire to scroll, I usually head over to Printables to look at 3D prints for a while... see what my printer will be doing for the next week. I really like the filtering options that model site has. Less often I'll do the same on MyMiniFactory
4Maille Artisans. I make chainmail jewelry and find many new weaves through this website.
3Now thats the kinda thing im talking about! Thats great
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a metaphor for the life of the mind
2The Library of Babel contains every permutation of 3200 characters pages, organized in rooms, shelves and books. It contains every work ever written by mankind, it contains the (brief) story of how you will die and of all the ways will not die. It is mostly gibberish but you can search for some pecific text. It's not yet completed as that would require all the pages to be combined na permutated between themselves, but there could literally be some new discoveries inside waiting to be read, and of course a whole lot of wrong knowledge
2It even translates yes or no in the language of the country you live in
2There are a couple websites that display all of the US road signs approved by the federal government. Some cool stuff on there. Wikipedia does it too but I like the organization of the websites.
1Can't go wrong with looking around at the blogs and stuff at https://neocities.org/browse Lots of creative people with an interest in retro style website and blog design
I also like https://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/
And of course gotta mention the GOAT zombo.com
1I remember finding a website once where you can create your own universe by clicking, dragging, etc and at some point it dies. I found it through Bored button. Hope to find it again.
1Webradio is a lot of fun, it's allowed me to listen to music from all over the world. Here's a couple links:
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