The hermit crab is a peculiar animal.

September 24, 2016 6:34 PM

Herman was lying in the tide
afraid of everything,
until I took him to the safety of the city,
where he now hides
in drugs, religion, money and lust.
posted by phunniemee (8 comments total)

Also:
What pet should I have?

I'm just fine.

I will not dream.

theory of relative happiness

nobodyhere/justme (in English)
and e-cards
posted by oneswellfoop at 7:05 PM on September 24, 2016 [1 favorite]

This site is one of the very first things I intended to post to metafilter, but I forgot. For 8 years. I've had the link sitting in an old email since 2006; I can't believe it still works.
posted by phunniemee at 7:16 PM on September 24, 2016 [6 favorites]

Thanks for reminding me of mouchette.org, which I hadn't visited in so many years, and I must say is a completely different experience on a modern high-speed line than on the glacial dialup connection I had years ago.
posted by xigxag at 7:36 PM on September 24, 2016 [2 favorites]

Really cool. My only references are Island.8081 and what a friend tended to build with HyperCard.
posted by lazycomputerkids at 7:45 PM on September 24, 2016 [2 favorites]

Herman was a lobster, Sally was a crab.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 8:34 PM on September 24, 2016 [2 favorites]

God, I remember this. There's a coulple of similar sites, but I can only remember the name of one - Project Euh? (If using NoScript, turn on scripts for the site to activate the menu in the upper left - clicking the title sends you to a random page.)

I wonder if any of you can help me find the other, if it even still exists. It had a title like 'drink at work' or something like that. Features included:

A game where you combine colors together either additively or subtractively, with a sequel using the other method

Multiple features involing clicking giant pixels to split them in four, thus slowly increasing the resolution of the image. One such image was of an early Time Magazine Person of the Year, possibly 1938.

A blog generator - you put in your names and those of your friends and it automatically generates a daily self-writing blog.
posted by BiggerJ at 3:06 AM on September 25, 2016 [1 favorite]

Drink at Work was Francesco Marciuliano, but the domain seems dead now. Bringing us back around to hermit crabs it now has some kind of Thai squatter (?) site about cars.
posted by dilettante at 10:43 AM on September 25, 2016

dielettante: No, it wasn't that. I might be misremembering at least one of the words. I think the title had four words in its name.

Another feature I remembered - a slot-machine-like game where you had to get the words of the site's title in the right order. If you won, you got to put an ad on the site that stayed up until someone else won.
posted by BiggerJ at 12:12 AM on September 26, 2016