It’s the weirdest shit I’ve ever seen. Before I get into it, I want to point out that I’ve been using this site for years, since before LLMs were a thing, so this is definitely not generated by AI.
It’s just like, generic outline drawings of things. Objects, people, places, everything.
So sometimes I like to draw, and I need a model to work from for the pose and the proportions, and this site has a ton of them. Child kicking a ball? Yes. Adult man sitting on a bench? Several options to choose from. Woman carrying a box? Three different poses.
Pointing, pushing, protesting, thinking, vacuuming, raising one’s hand to summon a waiter in a restaurant, it’s all there.
I’m sure there’s some kind of industrial use for it, like for diagrams or blueprints or something, but then we get to the descriptions. Like on the page for people carrying boxes, it says:
People lift boxes either in their personal lives or at work. People lift boxes to move residences. Mailmen or delivery truck drivers lift boxes everyday as part of their job. Some jobs may require their applicants to be able to lift a certain weight of box. When lifting boxes, it is important to lift with your knees instead of your back to prevent back injury.
Then there’s always three questions, which they provide answers to. For carrying, those questions are:
What is a carry on bag?
What is carrying capacity?
How much can a horse carry?
Why? Whom is that for?
Under the pictures of elderly people it asks things like “What are the best exercises for maintaining mobility in seniors?” and “How can seniors adapt their homes for safety and accessibility?”
Is this for dolphins? Did a dolphin learn to read English, and they want to understand human society?
I’m struggling to find the weirdest examples, because honestly it’s the breadth as well as the depth. Someone clearly put a ton of work into this, and I love it, but I don’t understand it.
Alright. I figured it out. This is for aliens trying to understand us.
If they are missing one, I haven’t needed it yet.
On of Eyezmaze made the Grow games, which are currently still playable here: https://www.eyezmaze.com/
Ferry Halim made Orisinal, a website full of simple and relaxing Flash games that lives again now through various means, I think a combination of HTML5 conversion and Ruffle: https://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/
Oh shit I used to play these games all the time in school, thanks for the hit of nostalgia
It’s been around for half a century and nobody knows about it. It’s like a world wonder, a modern Library of Alexandria.
Not sure how known these are, but it’s similar.
https://librivox.org/ public domain audio books
https://freemusicarchive.org/ free access to open licensed music
IIRC, they’ll add new books every year, as older books slowly become Public Domain, so classics like a bunch of Tarzan books (though not all of them, yet) have become available.
Also, for those that don’t get the name: Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press that was much better than existing presses (and pretty new to Europe).
The venerable and unexplainable Superbad: https://www.superbad.com/
Ancient wiki-style writing site Everything, older than Wikipedia: https://everything2.com/
The “Earth Edition” of the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: https://h2g2.com/
It’s still the same same as it was almost 30 years ago and is an example of both how websites used to look and also shows how much more functional things used to be when implemented well, inspite of modern aesthetic evolutions
Lemmy
26-year-old image blog Everlasting Blort: https://blort.meepzorp.com/
To figure out what type of adhesive/glue you need to attach x material to y material
https://windows93.net/ - Some mad lad implemented a custom parody version of Windows 95 that has a bunch of working applications and emulators. Also, check out !internetisawesome@sh.itjust.works for a lot of similar sites.
I have loads of questions, like why does this exist, and why is there a fucking karaoke player with licensed tracks on this parody?
This used to have an integrated Myspace clone. It was so cool and I miss it dearly. My page
Did you not see the “that no one knows about” part of the question?
I didn’t know this one…
Floor 796 — https://floor796.com/
Poor Gimli…
I didn’t recognise the name but when I clicked I recognised it instantly, I’m astounded but happy this is still around
This is triggering habbo hotel nostalgia for me
Did you throw popcorn into the black hole?
Of course!
Haha, that’s so bizarre but wild and fascinating.
Yo that techno Viking is spot on. Nailed the point and the moves.
Book marked 😘
Thanks for reminding me about this – such an astounding work of art.
Neat!
Found Marvin, inspector gadget, r2d2, Wall-e, and many more.
I think there’s a guide. I follow them on Telegram and they post whenever they add something (with a direct link to the coordinates). Lately he’s been working on the flea market area with Link and Zelda.
NostraDavid’s Warcraft Credit Visualizer
I wanted to check who worked on what World of Warcraft game, so I’ve vibe-coded this together, over the years. Not the data though - I didn’t want hallucinated data.
Anyway, turns that one person worked on all the games: Glenn Stafford - the absolutely musical legend!
http.cat
Been working in software engineering for 5 years now, I still look this site up basically any time I don’t remember what an http code means
My new favorite 405 image
