One Million (small Web) Screenshots
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Diving into a fascinating collection of one million screenshots from the "small web," commenters are marveling at the project's unique approach to showcasing lesser-known websites. As users explore the visual archive, they're discovering their own hidden corners of the internet and stumbling upon new, intriguing sites to follow. Some commenters are suggesting enhancements, such as adding a timeline or clock feature, while others are pointing out the prevalence of identical themes and parked domains, sparking a lively discussion about the nature of online identity. The project's refreshing focus on the uncharted territories of the web is resonating with users, who are enjoying the serendipitous discoveries and new connections being made.
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Some of them are due to many people using the same theme.
Some of them are expired or parked domains, which I reckon should be detected and excluded.
Teeming masses of sites using what probably seems to the authors as a fresh, unconventional look but ends up being Yet Another.
[0]: https://onemillionscreenshots.com/idiallo.com/screenshot
Luminous company but not my level, nor is my blog about AI, nor is it a CV. I can’t see any reason for the location.
> I just want to encode the high level aesthetic details of webpage screenshots. Because of this, I fell back on an old friend: the triplet loss on top of a small encoder. The resulting output dimension of 64 afforded ample room for describing the visual range while maintaining a considerably smaller footprint.
Nice catch, fixing :D
Here’s another Christmassy alternative: https://display.archive.org/xmas
I’m one of the makers of OneMillionScreenshots.com and I’m currently working on an update to it.
Timeline: view older versions
Clock: view light/dark mode theme according to user time zone (or enable dark/light mode manually)
I'm also a bit curious, since most web pages are predominantly white, how many of them are adapted to dark mode?
this is one of the coolest blogs i have ever read!
My website [1] gets perhaps as many as 200 visitors a week according to Cloudflare. And it's still there at number 399322 (first half of the pack).
[1] https://onemillionscreenshots.com/dmitriid.com
Recently went back [0] to the open web and feel like this inclusion alone justified that move.
Thanks for sharing. Humble and heart-warming way to end 2025 for an old Internet man.
[0]: https://frankycaron.medium.com/of-an-open-web-rebirth-and-bi...
My forum isn't, though. With a post every day or so and nearly 50 active users, it's probably not "small web" any more :-D
It’s a shame there doesn’t seem to be any way to link to a particular position on the map but great stuff nevertheless.