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Although I'm not in the target audience (because Google), I think some of my less nerdy friends would find this extremely useful. I've had quite a few ask me for an easy way to create a quick form to gather responses when organising an event or to run a little survey. Thanks for creating it, bookmarked. Will recommend.

This is delightful! As someone who really, really liked Win2000 before switching to Mac, getting to browse the web on an NT/IE6 is a wonderful nostalgia trip (especially when you know it's simulation of sorts).

Thanks for creating this, author!

Wow, thanks for this list of things to check out. This is exactly the sort of thing I was hoping we'd be talking about and share.

I downloaded and am playing with fraidyc.at and am so far really liking the idea -- the whole idea made more sense after watching your video and then actually testing it. Thanks for making it.

Brilliant. Love it. Of course we see this everything, in automation in aviation for example, or in cars, or even reliance on urban solutions like food delivery and such.

In each of these cases, things become more convenient/less complex, but a new set of problems crop up.

Thank you for your armchain philosophising.

Thank you, merged!

Indeed! This is a very pleasant site. And very happy to see no analytics/tracking. Excellent example, thanks.

Ha!

(offtopic 2) How's the beer?

Indeed, I enjoy that æsthetic in certain contexts, admittedly because it makes me nostalgic more than anything else. I had to exercise restraint! :) I wanted the site to remain readable and accessible in text mode/lynx/screen readers and respect basic typograhical conventions.

But I agree with you that the thing that I miss the most is the hobby-ist, non-commercial aspect. But I'm discovering a lot of great links on this HN thread!

Indeed, my first homepage was on Homestead IIRC, using the online WYSIWYG builder. It was terribly hard to get consistent results, but it worked. And got me into learning HTML4. I don't think they're too common now — it's usually things like Wix that have a more "pick a theme and enter content" + automagic website creation.

An opportunity, perhaps...

Beaker looks very interesting indeed! Download it as I write this. Reminds me a little of what I've read about HyperCard. Looking forward to testing it.

Thanks for the heads-up! There are so many links to follow up on here in this thread.

Yes, I'm discovering the newer pubnix now (only knew of sdf.org previously). Looks interesting, if a little overkill for what I'm looking for. Glad they exist though.

You can perhaps try a week of _mostly_ limiting yourself to those and see how it goes? I personally do a mix of the "normal" web and more niche stuff out there.

Excellent! Joined, thank you!

Oh I like the Hotline one especially! Easy to implement and some of the sites on there are very cool indeed. Thanks for these links.