Miss the old web? Join us haywood.computer

7/20/2026 at 10:56:55 PM

I click. I see an anime girlie bot challenge screen. I hear zoomer pop in ~32k 16-bit stereo. I see JavaScript animations and a seizure-inducing vibecoded layout. I close the tab.

"Miss the old web?" The author wasn't even born then.

by NackerHughes

7/21/2026 at 5:37:55 AM

Anubis is awesome, but yeah everything else... gtfo

by a34729t

7/20/2026 at 11:07:56 PM

Well I am on the millennial/Gen Z cusp, and I think the new "old web" is a recreation of the corner of the Internet that puts humans before bots (as opposed to faithfully recreating it). Then again this website feels like it's doing a little too much.

by suobset

7/21/2026 at 12:10:24 PM

What you're describing is the IndieWeb, I feel like if you're going to call something the "old web" the effort probably should be to actually recreate it a little more faithfully

by Hugsbox

7/20/2026 at 11:12:45 PM

Or too little... aside from themes and music and a chatbox there's not much to it.

by floren

7/20/2026 at 11:36:41 PM

They were clearly just having some fun with the site..

by coffeeindex

7/21/2026 at 1:05:04 AM

Also, this seems exactly like what the classic web would’ve looked like if we’d had the ability to do it.

by abracadaniel

7/21/2026 at 7:18:09 AM

try as hard as you can, you can't hide the claude style of frontend. get out, poser

by gnoll_of_gozag

7/21/2026 at 7:31:33 AM

This is literally everything terrible about web design in $CURRENT_YEAR.

by fzorb

7/21/2026 at 12:15:56 AM

The graphics were never that good in the old days.

by benlivengood

7/21/2026 at 5:10:44 AM

I like it. Is the music AI generated though?

by pogue

7/21/2026 at 1:09:33 AM

Yeah I dunno what this is

by homeonthemtn

7/21/2026 at 1:17:43 PM

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by frogcommander

7/21/2026 at 3:09:16 AM

Fuck you and your music.

by grdjjhgggg