Doing crazy things with CSS, including animations, has never been easier or more consistent between browsers, and yet creativity in web design has gone down practically to zero these days. I blame mobile, where nobody can seem to escape from the "responsive column of blandly styled content" paradigm.
All behold the latest in web design: <a href="https://www.cameronsworld.net/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cameronsworld.net/</a>
Had to throw <a href="http://durgasoft.com/" rel="nofollow">http://durgasoft.com/</a> 's hat into the ring too for the garish web design subset.
Working in web hosting, I've hosted many sites like this and had to deal with some of the people who've made them. And I have to say that while it's fun to point and laugh at the websites, there are a few of these in the ring that are borderline troubling. It is clear that their authors are suffering from some serious mental illnesses and at the very least some major delusions.<p>I recall a case years ago where I hosted a site for someone who appeared to be a paranoid schizophrenic. They called in one day complaining that we'd moved one of their HTML tables to the left by a few pixels. Another one was a website by somebody who was "exposing" their local municipality for doing things like charging for water and "illegally incarcerating" the website owner, who viewed their stints in a mental hospital as an attack to their freedom.<p>On the other hand, Lings Cars made it on this webring, and it's well deserved. That site is awesome and horrible at the same time, and it's designed to make us gawk at it for fun.
I'm not really sure what's so "cursed" about this website? <a href="http://www.hytechshotz.com/default.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.hytechshotz.com/default.asp</a><p>The website design is pretty bad but based off of the OP saying "most of them are really deep and demonstrate some sort of twisted brain that was behind each site" I'm not really sure why this one is on the list.
If you decide to go to <a href="https://www.lingscars.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.lingscars.com/</a> do yourself a favor and right click the site and select "View Source".
Love this, there's so much personality in these. No JS cruft, no cosmetics, no filler, just cool (and in this case very weird) vibes.<p>How far the web strayed from this, it's a shame really. The soul has left :/
Also of interest:<p><a href="https://www.cameronsworld.net/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cameronsworld.net/</a><p><a href="https://wiby.me/" rel="nofollow">https://wiby.me/</a>
Cursed indeed. I am enjoying the web 1.0 insanity of the Atari parts maker for 8-bit machines. Somewhere there is a person still making a bit of cash from 1985 tech.<p><a href="https://cursed.llolo.lol/best-electronics-ca.com/" rel="nofollow">https://cursed.llolo.lol/best-electronics-ca.com/</a>
on the topic of web rings, check out this little webring I built for github profile readmes a few months back:<p><a href="https://octo-ring.com/" rel="nofollow">https://octo-ring.com/</a><p>Here's what the widget looks like on your profile -- there are some <i>wild</i> markdown table hacks to make the buttons individually clickable: <a href="https://github.com/veggiedefender/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/veggiedefender/</a>
Wow, the greatest website of the ’90s that never was, it even has a Catsape browser embedded somewhere. Found that by coincidence — clicking around in this thing can have surprising results. It is also the first site that managed to get me this warning from Safari: “<i>This webpage is using significant energy. Closing it may improve the responsiveness of your Mac</i>”. I recommend the site for its entertainment value but make sure your battery is charged!
Interesting project, however it seems it has a certain bias against a peculiar demographic, unfortunately this isn't surprising at all. Culture war permeates everything.