Like several folks on the Internet, I’ve been taking the new Vivaldi 8.0 browser for a spin, and imported my Safari bookmarks to get a few favorites cooking on there. And as one does, I also took a moment to pick through dozens of websites I had organized eons ago to see if they still loaded (may of which I had forgotten).

Here’s a list of sites that still load, but seemingly have stopped updating. These sites fell out of regular visits long ago (perhaps through broken RSS feeds or interests drifting and I absentmindedly moved on), but worth a share, at the very least, to see if this resonate or remind anyone else of a bygone Internet.

• Mandolux
• The Oldest Living Things in the World
• Cinescape
• Grain Edit
• Typographica.org
• Dustin Curtis
• Ribbon Farm
• Fifty Foot Shadows

I particularly remember Mandulux as the place to get photography-based desktop wallpapers; alas, that site hasn’t been updated since 2008.

I’m usually not one for indulging in nostalgia, but the pull towards it has been greater these past few years. Noah Kalina has a good reason why:

It’s probably because most people who grew up in that era are having a midlife crisis, but it probably also has something to do with enshittification and how corporations, in their pursuit of infinite profit, have turned everything we once loved into unremarkable products to be quickly consumed and discarded. We long for the days when things seemed like they had real meaning and value.

Waking up to the first snowfall of the season up here. It’s been tardy for the last several years in a row now, for whatever that’s worth.

Big move coming up. Am I one of the few who consider themselves moving enthusiasts? Yes. Organizing, packing, labeling, checklisting, and placing objects in optimal paths for trafficking this shit out of a house is high on my dopamine hits.