Sound on or there's no point.
Built it because someone said they went looking for a dial-up simulator and couldn't find one.
You pick your modem speed, hit dial, and sit through the whole handshake. Then you get a little browser with a few pages that load line by line the way they used to.
And someone in the house might pick up the phone and drop your connection.
Sound on or there's no point.
Built it because someone said they went looking for a dial-up simulator and couldn't find one.
You pick your modem speed, hit dial, and sit through the whole handshake. Then you get a little browser with a few pages that load line by line the way they used to. And someone in the house might pick up the phone and drop your connection.
not a blog, not a store. someone’s actual page. the kind with a hit counter at the bottom and a page that said “about me” and meant it.
i still think about the ones that were just one person being weirdly thorough about one thing. what was yours?
No feed, no algorithm, no for-you page. You'd click a link on someone's blog, land on a site about nothing, click again, and lose an hour. Nobody was optimizing your attention.
So I made a button.
Press it, it drops you somewhere - a one-joke site, a stupid little toy, somebody's personal page about a subject they will not shut up about. All picked by hand.
No account, no cookies, nothing saved. Just the button.
https://culdesac.site/
Not the modem handshake, everybody does that one. I mean watching a JPEG paint in line by line and calling it early because you’d already seen enough.