can you help me find this experimental web navigation site?

August 24, 2008 10:00 PM

can you help me find this experimental web navigation site?

A buncha years ago, perhaps 2000 or the late 90s, I stumbled across a page of what I would call 'experimental' web design. Many of the mini-sites were very minimal, and lacked content altogether, but had a unified look (I remember light grey on dark grey, possibly) and had very smooth, 'tactile' feel to the components. One in particular stands out, as a bunch of nestled folders spread out on a Tron-like plane.

This wasn't a company, but, IIRC, was a student or other non-commercial entity. I'm like, FAIRLY sure it would have been done in Flash, for the time, it seems to make the most sense. Again, IIRC, source code/means to download this stuff was possible.

This is a total longshot, but thought I'd give'r.

posted by tremspeed to computers & internet (17 comments total)

I'm not sure what you mean by 'mini-sites' but the first thing that popped into my mind was Brent Gustafson's Assembler.org.... "making art with machine code". It's been around since 2000. That link is just an archive of the original assembler.org site, I think - it hasn't been updated for several years.
posted by iconomy at 10:42 PM on August 24, 2008

(I think it was all done in dhtml, which was very rad at the time )
posted by iconomy at 10:44 PM on August 24, 2008

a rad site, one I haven't seen before, but not QUITE it. that's actually remarkably similar, though.

the one I'm looking for is JUST like that, but with more utilitarian 'toys.'
posted by tremspeed at 10:51 PM on August 24, 2008

Two others that ran through my head at the same time were untickalock.org and youngpup.net...at the time they both were pretty much entired made of grey folders on a 45 degree angle, and both were also into the rad dhtml and the sharing of the code.

Also, Brent had another site at the same time as assembler.org called vitaflo.org - could it have been that?
posted by iconomy at 10:56 PM on August 24, 2008

entired should be entirely.... geez.
posted by iconomy at 10:57 PM on August 24, 2008

Was it jodi.org?
posted by O9scar at 11:20 PM on August 24, 2008

fraid not jodi.org - the site i'm thinking of wasn't art with a capital a, or anything.

enjoying the links though, thanks for the guesses.
posted by tremspeed at 11:28 PM on August 24, 2008

Another suggestion and then to bed. Joshua Davis' Praystation? He also had another site called Once Upon A Forest and also had a forum called dreamless. I have no idea why I know all this, seeing as how I have nothing to do with web design. This is going to drive me nuts. If you can remember anything else at all it might help.
posted by iconomy at 11:33 PM on August 24, 2008

Might be too recent for you, but... Don't Click It
posted by harriet vane at 7:08 AM on August 25, 2008

It's probably not the site you remember, but check out ertdfgcvb.ch... and also check his excellent list of links (click"3").
posted by oulipian at 9:00 AM on August 25, 2008

The site that popped in my head was this: http://www.andyfoulds.co.uk/

It was a little different a few years ago, and more like you describe.
posted by eightball at 9:21 AM on August 25, 2008

oops, forgot to make it a link: http://www.andyfoulds.co.uk/
posted by eightball at 9:22 AM on August 25, 2008

It wasn't Hell.com, was it?
posted by Addlepated at 6:42 PM on August 25, 2008

superbad was home of much web madness in those happy days. (I don't know about the particular madness you describe)
posted by LobsterMitten at 7:55 PM on August 25, 2008

from the page I linked, move your mouse around for fun color changes, and click on a square to be taken to another page, click to be taken to another page, etc.

You can also just truncate the url to superbad alone, and get the more straightforward text intro
posted by LobsterMitten at 7:57 PM on August 25, 2008

Nope, superbad text list here
posted by LobsterMitten at 8:02 PM on August 25, 2008

none of the above.

but seriously, some great stuff here. it's all in the vein of what i was looking for, which leads me to believe that it would have been posted if it were still online, and/or there are many things like it.

thanks for the guesses.
posted by tremspeed at 9:11 PM on August 25, 2008