As a comment on the unchanging, pared-down UI of the Halfbakery, this is a reimagining of the Halfbakery showing how it would look at different points in the internet’s history if it had adopted the currently fashionable web fad. E.g., not necessarily in this order: 1. everything in a FRAME, 2. accessible only via clicking on a splash screen, 3. accessible only via an OS-specific app which has slightly less functionality than the HTML site, 4. with pop-up ads, 5. with rampant collection of user data for onward sale to the highest bidder, 6. everything rendered with Flash, 7. built in Wordpress, etc.-- hippo, Dec 09 2019 YOU ARE IN A LARGE SPACE SURROUNDED BY IDEAS. YOU HAVE 23CROISSANTS 4 FISHBONES. > go north YOU ARE IN AN IDEA CALLED PANIC PIN . THERE ARE 16 ANNOTATIONSHERE. THERE IS A [UNABUBBA] HERE. THE [UNABUBBA] IS ATTACKING YOU. >run away I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO run away THE [UNABUBBA] IS ATTACKING YOU. THE [UNABUBBA] IS RIPPING YOUR LIMBS OFF. YOU ARE DEAD. GAME OVER. login:-- 8th of 7, Dec 09 2019 Need a Web 2.0 croissant logo, with a nice gradient-- calum, Dec 09 2019 BBS
Gopher
Vannevar Bush's Memex
Mobile-first
Tor hidden service
Serverless-- notexactly, Dec 10 2019 tsk, don't forget nntp. (could actually be done, but would get zero traffic).
Oh wait... Yahoo! Gropes-- FlyingToaster, Dec 10 2019 Baudot punched paper tape ?
Actually, given its text format, halfbakery-on- ASR33-Teletype would be entirely practical ... very Steampunk.-- 8th of 7, Dec 10 2019 We could also have a version designed to be accessed from retrocomputers, like (IIRC) retro.hackaday.com (which, IIRC, just displays a static set of blog posts now, not the most recent ones from the actual blog?). It wouldn't even be difficult—last time I checked, the halfbakery was already using '90s-style HTML for everything.
Though I guess it's not really necessary, with the /lr/ version already available.-- notexactly, Dec 20 2019 I'm quite interested in the weekly periodical magazine format-- hippo, Dec 20 2019 We're quite interested in the 70-round drum magazine format, as used by the PPSh-41.-- 8th of 7, Dec 20 2019 71-round (Russian savant Dirty Harry).
Carry on.-- pertinax, Dec 21 2019 update: the Halfbakery should be an app, slower, with slightly less functionality, less privacy, and more use of processing power and memory than the browser version-- hippo, Aug 15 2023 ^^ Would our information be sold, specifically to match against similar ideas currently in the patent process, to summarily be deleted such that "prior art" can be legally denied?-- whatrock, Aug 15 2023 If hb "user data" (not that there really is any) is to be sold, it will be deliberately "wrong", & designed specifically to mess up the databases of the advertisers it goes to (but without them realising).-- neutrinos_shadow, Aug 17 2023 Please click on everything that is a picture of a croissant to continue...-- RayfordSteele, Aug 18 2023 random, halfbakery