MetaFilter posts tagged with web and website

The Web OS

GuyZero — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:17:01 -0800

Grabarz & Partner's website looks oddly familiar... A German ad agency, apparently they couldn't be bothered of thinking of something original so they ripped off an existing concept.

I'm Still Alive

jragon — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:11:26 -0800

Death By Caffeine I just learned that it would take 155.11 cans of Mountain Dew to kill me, according to this odd little service.

Ten years of the big Z!

riffola — Tue, 31 May 2005 19:26:24 -0800

Jeffrey Zeldman's site is now a decade old!

The Year of the Monkey? Hardly

planetkyoto — Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:07:09 -0800

Webmonkey to close down
Ave, Webmonkey, old friend. You were a great source of new tricks for self-taught old dogs.

URL -> CGI -> POETRY

zerofoks — Sat, 03 May 2003 00:23:00 -0800

Do you think that poetry is dead, too? Well, that's because everyone is busy getting their websites transformed into poetry by a neat script. [via boingboing.net]

sylloge — Thu, 28 Feb 2002 22:28:51 -0800

1/20th the size of 5k: the 256b competition
Most won't work on anything but Win/IE5+, and you have to download the (65.2Kb) .zip file, but ... wow.

crunchland — Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:56:38 -0800

The SXSW Interactive Web Awards finalists are up... and the site I submitted isn't mentioned. Am I bitter? No.. no.. OK. YES. Anyway, the sites listed are the best of the best of 2001. Worth a look.

mattpfeff — Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:10:02 -0800

The Froggy Page was the Cool Site of the Day from August 8, 1994. It's the oldest site archived there without the disclaimer, "site no longer live". The page sure looks like it was built in '94 -- not even a single table! (Can anyone who was coding back then confirm if the code is really that old?) Does anyone have a favorite site from those good old days?

holgate — Sat, 20 Jan 2001 14:03:48 -0800

Welcome to a new era of drop shadows. Ever since Gore conceded, I was curious about the transition of the White House site. And, um, it's a little sparse right now. Did anyone catch what time it went live?

Hankins — Sun, 03 Dec 2000 14:57:08 -0800

More Pseudo-Amazon Layout Fun It used to amaze me that people have entire careers based on ripping off others. Now it's just standard (I apologize for the thousandth post of an amazon.com tabs comment). The site actually looks like the old Amazon interface hooked up with the current Altavista site, and created some bizarre, overly-influenced mélange.

jkottke — Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:30:49 -0800

Steal a design, win an award. Sumerset Custom Houseboats won several awards in the 2000 Inc. Magazine Web Awards 2000, including the top prize in the General Excellence category. According to a company press release, the site was chosen for its "simple, functional, yet elegant design". The only problem is, they stole the design from IBM's site.

mathowie — Tue, 04 Jan 2000 10:45:11 -0800

Through some supposed database mixup, Wal-Mart sells various books on porn, and later pulls them from their website. Ha! I love seeing stuff like this happen to a company that is hell-bent on having a clean image. There's some indescribable joy I get when I hear a Mouseketeer gets arrested for drug use, or a tele-evangelist is caught with a prostitute. I can't put my finger on why, it's just incredibly comical to me. They haven't fixed their search engine yet, here's a juicy screenshot.