[HN Gopher] Melonking Website
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Melonking Website
Author : thecsw
Score : 122 points
Date : 2025-08-10 03:38 UTC (19 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (melonking.net)
(TXT) w3m dump (melonking.net)
| bharatgel wrote:
| Pure genius!
| userbinator wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| I thought it was likely to be like the onion sales story.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132
| YeGoblynQueenne wrote:
| Yeah, it's not about Melon Usk.
| pxeger1 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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.
| okonomiyaki3000 wrote:
| This is the World Wide Web?
|
| This is what the World Wide Web is supposed to be.
| uncircle wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| The reality is that I was browsing the annual HTML Day
| submissions [1] and stumbled upon this super wholesome
| webpage.
|
| [1] https://html.energy/html-day/2025/index.html
| throwanem wrote:
| No thank you! I've never melonked in my life and I surely don't
| mean to start now.
| Mistletoe wrote:
| I thought it was about something like spelunking but you just
| explore yourself. Basically just the 21st century.
| throwanem wrote:
| 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 - _gnothi seauton,_ 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.
| mwcz wrote:
| Mellon is Sindarin for "friend", so maybe mellonking is
| exploring one's friends?
| YeGoblynQueenne wrote:
| 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.
| bombcar wrote:
| "There used to be an end to the page!"
| ethan_smith wrote:
| 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.
| aspenmayer wrote:
| Came for the linkbait, stayed for the midi renditions of popular
| hits gone (g)old. Say it ain't so.
| fleebee wrote:
| 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.
| camgunz wrote:
| My fave website of this ilk is superbad.com. I go back here and
| there and I'm instantly 17 again, hee-heeing at the postmodernity
| of it all
| treetalker wrote:
| The link rings are at the bottom of the Fav Hyperlinks page, in
| case anyone was looking.
| neom wrote:
| 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.
|
| [1]https://forum.melonland.net/index.php?PHPSESSID=641b114d1686..
| .
| righthand wrote:
| It definitely will heat up your cpu.
| Rendello wrote:
| 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:
|
| https://pizzabouquet.ca/
| ben_w wrote:
| Much, much better than most websites today, IMO.
| crtasm wrote:
| >You can read a profile about me on Rhizome :o What a wild
| outcome for what started as a weekend homepage project ~
| https://rhizome.org/editorial/2025/jul/29/artist-profile-dan...
| uncircle wrote:
| > Works best in Firefox!
|
| The Internet is cool again.
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