No thank you! I've never melonked in my life and I surely don't mean to start now.
Mistletoe 110 days ago [-]
I thought it was about something like spelunking but you just explore yourself. Basically just the 21st century.
throwanem 110 days ago [-]
What's wrong with exploring oneself? Obviously not too much nor wrongly in public and never to excess, but if the modern spelunking is just urbex - which it is, in my view, and much more appealing than any dank smelly old cave - then, though I won't repeat the hideous portmanteau, I don't suppose I see too much of a problem with this practice, either.
After all - γνῶθι σεαυτόν, wasn't that the phrase? No accident at all we find it incised over the gateway to an oracle. You might want to think about that, who has just finished reading this now.
Mistletoe 109 days ago [-]
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mwcz 110 days ago [-]
Mellon is Sindarin for "friend", so maybe mellonking is exploring one's friends?
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Rendello 110 days ago [-]
I ran into one of these neo-geocities-style websites in the wild when telling my friend about a trendy pizza place I liked. Even the EN-FR switch is animated:
It's fast here. That's a win over 99% of modern sites.
neom 110 days ago [-]
Pretty cool. Nice to see iframes, don't think I've seen those in a long long time. Also very good that the forum has a post your desk thread[1], very 2005 internet of them. One thing I can't figure out, are these old people who lived old internet or young people who have recreated old internet for themselves to live? Either way, cool site.
I played the "guess what it's going to be about before clicking on it" game with this item, and lost badly. I won't spoil the fun, but only remark that this site is neither about [1] a melon farming business, nor [2] a certain famous man with autocratic tendencies whose handle in "last-initial first" format would be "melon".
schoen 111 days ago [-]
I thought it was likely to be like the onion sales story.
Oh I guess it is supposed to be Melon-King, but I firmly read it as Melonk-ing at first. What could it mean to melonk?
nine_k 110 days ago [-]
Ascribe a meaning to it, make it a viral meme, and the meaning will stick.
Words like "quiz" and "blog" came to existence this way.
YeGoblynQueenne 110 days ago [-]
Yeah, it's not about Melon Usk.
YeGoblynQueenne 110 days ago [-]
No infinite scrolling, no AJAX and the back button works.
The entire world wide web used to be just like that, back in the Good Old Days of teh Internets, or so I'm told.
ethan_smith 110 days ago [-]
This is a perfect example of the "neocities" movement - a modern revival of the 90s/early 2000s web aesthetic that explicitly rejects the homogenized, corporate design patterns that dominate today's internet.
bombcar 110 days ago [-]
“There used to be an end to the page!”
fleebee 110 days ago [-]
I feel a bit warm and fuzzy inside when the forum (and the guestbook) seem reasonably active even if they're hidden under a rock. It's a treehouse kind of vibe.
PenguinRevolver 110 days ago [-]
A website that closes on Mondays? Stupid, stupid concept. As stupid as Steam's Tuesday Maintenance...
This is what the World Wide Web is supposed to be.
uncircle 110 days ago [-]
The reality is this is on the HN front page probably because it was trending on Reddit/Twitter or whatever the kids use these days. Without the grace of the benevolent algorithms, you would never ever have found out about this website.
thecsw 110 days ago [-]
The reality is that I was browsing the annual HTML Day submissions [1] and stumbled upon this super wholesome webpage.
After all - γνῶθι σεαυτόν, wasn't that the phrase? No accident at all we find it incised over the gateway to an oracle. You might want to think about that, who has just finished reading this now.
https://pizzabouquet.ca/
[1]https://forum.melonland.net/index.php?PHPSESSID=641b114d1686...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132
Words like "quiz" and "blog" came to existence this way.
The entire world wide web used to be just like that, back in the Good Old Days of teh Internets, or so I'm told.
Fortunately, you can skip it very easily: https://melonking.net/melon
This is what the World Wide Web is supposed to be.
[1] https://html.energy/html-day/2025/index.html
The Internet is cool again.
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