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>>optima+(OP)
I realize this is a site about the past, but I really hope this is the future. I want an internet of specialty sites, browsable curations, diversity of offering, freedom of choice, and full of the quirky/unusual. It might have to do with growing up in the 90s and experiencing that kind of world wide web, w/o walled gardens.

Several years back, perhaps even via an HN post or comment, I came across a blog, hosted on a university network (IIRC, perhaps related to media studies). The page consisted of a group of possibly graduate students contributing some of the weirdest and most obscure media I've ever seen online. Nothing obscene and nothing seemingly new/current, so it was rather hipster in that sense, but I kick myself for not having saved the URL.

Nothing says I need to use walled gardens or get my news from the big networks, but I often feel I'm being pointed that way. In the end, I just want something different than what's usually being served up.

(It doesn't escape me that this 90's TV site is full of walled garden/big network type content of the time)

>>person+fi
It’s not the site you’re looking for, but I found https://poolside.fm recently and it’s become one of those quirky corners of the internet that I have come to enjoy. I definitely miss the days of discovering weird specialty sites, and poolside gave me a bit of that new site discovery rush (also the music is great).

>>fwilli+zD1
i just downloaded the app. this is amazing, thank you for posting!