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As I write this post, I am frustrated. Why am I frustrated? Because I found a little old site that had but one functionality: you input a Twitter user into the single search field and get all their media. And then I lost the tab. You're probably thinking without the fatty JS it would be Nitter which is indeed great; except that wasn't it because it was way simpler than Nitter.
These days when you stumble upon a humble Web 1.0 or even 2.0 site that's still up and runnning chances are it's a no-nonsense, no-BS website that does exactly what it says on the tin. You can't say the same of all the sites hawking automation tools for this or that or meant to pump up search results.
In my experience browsing, some sites that have looked pretty hacked together and were clearly thrown at the wall by the dev to see what sticks have turned out to be quite useful, many of them offering an alternative interface for a familiar feed you would not see elsewhere. That's why I keep of a list of them. Sadly I will not be able to add one that I can't remember the name of (and they don't make them easy to remember!).
~pours a beer out to the death of the Silver Age internet~
A phrase came to mind reading that, leading to brief giddiness thinking I'd invented "Keep Is Static Stupid".. but quickly learned I'm once again party tardy....
Can you look in your history?