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I ran into one of these neo-geocities-style websites in the wild when telling my friend about a trendy pizza place I liked. Even the EN-FR switch is animated:
A website that closes on Mondays? Stupid, stupid concept. As stupid as Steam's Tuesday Maintenance...
Fortunately, you can skip it very easily: https://melonking.net/melon
Pretty cool. Nice to see iframes, don't think I've seen those in a long long time. Also very good that the forum has a post your desk thread[1], very 2005 internet of them. One thing I can't figure out, are these old people who lived old internet or young people who have recreated old internet for themselves to live? Either way, cool site.
[1]https://forum.melonland.net/index.php?PHPSESSID=641b114d1686...
Wonderful site. How are they sneaking in the auto-playing music? Firefox even displays a little icon saying audio is being blocked.
No infinite scrolling, no AJAX and the back button works.
The entire world wide web used to be just like that, back in the Good Old Days of teh Internets, or so I'm told.
I played the "guess what it's going to be about before clicking on it" game with this item, and lost badly. I won't spoil the fun, but only remark that this site is neither about [1] a melon farming business, nor [2] a certain famous man with autocratic tendencies whose handle in "last-initial first" format would be "melon".
I feel a bit warm and fuzzy inside when the forum (and the guestbook) seem reasonably active even if they're hidden under a rock. It's a treehouse kind of vibe.
This is the World Wide Web?
This is what the World Wide Web is supposed to be.
>You can read a profile about me on Rhizome :o What a wild outcome for what started as a weekend homepage project ~ https://rhizome.org/editorial/2025/jul/29/artist-profile-dan...
> Works best in Firefox!
The Internet is cool again.
The link rings are at the bottom of the Fav Hyperlinks page, in case anyone was looking.
My fave website of this ilk is superbad.com. I go back here and there and I'm instantly 17 again, hee-heeing at the postmodernity of it all
Pure genius!
It definitely will heat up your cpu.
Came for the linkbait, stayed for the midi renditions of popular hits gone (g)old. Say it ain't so.
No thank you! I've never melonked in my life and I surely don't mean to start now.