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• "Once Upon" by Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied [2026-07-07]
  Created by net artists Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied, this project recreates three significant contemporary websites as they might have appeared in late 1997, complete with dial-up speed throttling, frames-based HTML, and a recommendation to view on Netscape Navigator 4.03 under Windows 95. It is a nostalgic and conceptual art piece that lovingly preserves the aesthetic and technical spirit of the early web era.
• “Powered by...”, or the phenomenon of web software buttons — Daniil Baturin [2026-07-07]
  Daniil Baturin digs into the history and cultural significance of 'Powered by' web software buttons, those nostalgic 88x31 badges promoting browsers, servers, and tools that once decorated countless early web pages. With 72 images collected and a thoughtful analysis of why these buttons existed and what they reveal about early web culture, this is a fascinating piece of internet archaeology.
• ~a13x . home [2026-07-07]
  A sparse tilde.club personal page belonging to a13x, featuring a note about writing HTML on a Miyoo Mini+ handheld terminal and a small collection of random desk items. The Miyoo Mini+ focus and tilde.club setting give it a retro/hobbyist computing flavor, linking to a webring for fellow tilde enthusiasts.
• ~beckstrom's tilde.club page [2026-07-07]
  Chris Beckstrom's tilde.club homepage embraces the old-web aesthetic on purpose, featuring a geek code block, animated GIFs, and logged entries about SSH tricks, sshfs mounting, and Unix tinkering. A classic shared Unix server community page from an elder millennial who has been online since 1996, blending nostalgia with genuine command-line enthusiasm.
• ~brennen (prop., ed., pub., sysop) [2026-07-07]
  Brennen's tilde.club home on the old-school Unix shared server squiggle.city features a HyperCard-inspired stack of dated personal notes, textfiles, and reflections on command-line tools, DOS software, text editors, and shell scripting. Packed with geek charm, the site touches on everything from git workflows to Perl feed scripts, nostalgia-tripping on vintage software, and musings on the indie web.
• ~lucidiot [2026-07-07]
  Lucidiot's personal tilde.town page is a classic old-web haven packed with nostalgic web buttons, Netscape-era logos, anti-NFT badges, and links to quirky projects like a virtual plant and transport accident RSS feeds. The site radiates vintage internet enthusiasm with references to Windows XP, MSN Messenger via Escargot, and a handcrafted collection of ~town logos released under WTFPL.
• ~tweska on tilde.club [2026-07-07]
  Tweska's tilde.club homepage highlights their hands-on project building a Zilog Z80-based computer from scratch, complete with breadboard prototype photos. They also created the Tilde.Club Gallery, an automatically updated showcase of member pages on the tildeverse network.
• ★ ICHOR.system [2026-07-07]
  ICHOR.system is a stylized personal page by Icarusdean, presented entirely in ASCII art with a retro terminal aesthetic. The site leans heavily into old-school computer culture with its text-based layout and monospaced visual design.
• 1 Year anniversary! - Netscape Navigator Revival [2026-07-07]
  The Netscape Navigator Revival is a nostalgic project dedicated to recreating the early web browsing experience, offering simulated versions of classic browsers including Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer 2, Mosaic, Lynx, and ViolaWWW. Visitors can explore a WWW Revival dating back to 1991, making it a charming tribute to the origins of the World Wide Web.
• 1.44MB Webring [2026-07-07]
  The 1.44MB Webring connects enthusiasts who use, love, or make art with floppy disks, celebrating the iconic 3.5-inch format as both a nostalgic medium and a creative tool. Members include artists who create floppy disk art, hobbyists who back up their websites onto physical disks, and anyone who simply keeps floppies around for the love of it.
• 11 No Cost Tips for Optimizing Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Performance - Low End MacLow End Mac [2026-07-07]
  Low End Mac is a long-running Apple resource site dedicated to getting the most out of older Mac hardware, with this article offering 11 free performance tips specifically for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger on G3, G4, G5, and early Intel Macs. With over 2 million hits, this guide by Ed Eubanks Jr covers practical optimizations like managing startup items, removing unused language files, and controlling fan speeds to keep aging Macs running smoothly.
• 1200 Baud Archeology [2026-07-07]
  Reconstructing Apple I BASIC from a Cassette Tape – pagetable.com: Michael Steil's pagetable.com is a deep-dive technical blog focused on vintage computing archaeology, including this landmark post reconstructing Apple I BASIC from an original cassette tape recording. The site covers 6502 assembly, historical software artifacts, and low-level retrocomputing research with a level of rigor that makes it essential reading for vintage computing enthusiasts.
• 16colo.rs - ANSI/ASCII art archive [2026-01-11]
  Sixteen Colors is a comprehensive archive preserving ANSI and ASCII artpacks released through the BBS underground art scene from the early 1990s to the present day. Visitors can browse by artist, group, year, or file type, exploring thousands of pieces from a vibrant era of text-mode digital art.
• ୨୧ Kawaii Attic ୨୧ [2026-07-07]
  Kawaii Attic, created by Arunyi, is a lovingly curated archive of cute websites from the early 2000s, celebrating the golden age of kawaii internet culture with pixel art, adoptions, dollz, sozai, and more. Visitors can browse hundreds of linked sites organized into categories like personal pages, fanlistings, cliques, webrings, and sozai resources, making it a treasure trove for anyone nostalgic for the old web's charming aesthetic.
• 23Sonics' little corner [2026-07-07]
  23Sonics shares their passion for older computers including a Packard Bell EasyNote, Asus Eee PC 701, and HP OmniBook XE3, alongside a custom Fedora Linux setup and a self-hosted Windows documentation tool called Windows MAN. The site also touches on retro-friendly software advocacy, personal online services, and a love of games like Tetris and Sonic the Hedgehog.
• 2Bit - A website about 2bit stuff. [2026-04-18]
  Built around the aesthetic and hardware limitations of 2-bit graphics, this quirky personal site from a creator known as 2Bit celebrates the original Game Boy era with game reviews, hardware pages, memes, and Easter eggs. The site itself renders in only four colors as a nod to its theme, and includes chiptune background music and blog posts musing on generational identity and retro tech.
• 98.js - Windows 98 Online [2026-07-07]
  98.js brings the classic Windows 98 desktop experience directly to your browser, letting you interact with a faithful JavaScript recreation of the iconic operating system. It's a nostalgic tech demo and functional simulation that captures the look and feel of late-90s computing without installing anything.
• 9ties [2026-07-07]
  A nostalgic tribute to the 1990s internet experience, created by someone called 'doc' who longs for the old web days of horrid computers and slow connections. The site features a Hotline Webring membership and neighborhood links, capturing the spirit of early Geocities-era personal pages.
• A:EDLIN.COM [2026-02-01]
  Edlinfan's homepage is a lovingly crafted tribute to DOS-era computing, styled as a command-line interface complete with ASCII art and drive prompt aesthetics. Named after the classic DOS line editor EDLIN, the site includes a blog, archive, webcam, and weather sections all presented in retro terminal fashion.
• Aaron Nabil's Hickok Tube Tester Settings | Spirit One [2026-07-07]
  Aaron Nabil's page preserves scanned and OCR'd manuals for the rare Hickok/Western Electric KS-15874-L2 Cardmatic Tube Tester, including complete operating instructions, schematics, circuit theory, and calibration guides. A niche but invaluable reference for vintage electronics enthusiasts hunting down hard-to-find documentation for these semi-automatic vacuum tube testing machines.
• Abandonware France, le site retrogaming dédié à la sauvegarde du patrimoine vidéo ludique PC. [2026-07-07]
  Abandonware France is a long-running French-language retrogaming preservation site dedicated to archiving and cataloging old PC games, complete with over 3100 titles available for automated installation. Visitors can browse abandonware games, read manuals, view magazine scans and cover art, watch retro gaming videos, and explore timelines of classic game companies and personalities.
• Aesistril's Website [2026-07-07]
  Aesistril's personal site is built by a self-described 20-year-old nerd with a passion for electronics, UNIX/Linux systems, old computers, and software, all reflected in its retro-inspired design aesthetic. Visitors can explore a blog, dream log, survival guide, projects, and even café reviews, plus the site participates in both the Hotline and Retronaut webrings.
• ALTEXXANET - Your 90s Internet Experience [2026-02-01]
  ALTEXXANET recreates the 1990s internet experience by offering free public access to classic internet services including Usenet, IRC, Gopher, FTP, and a Hotline BBS. Visitors can download old text files, freeware, and shareware software, making it a nostalgic playground for anyone who remembers the pre-web internet era.
• Amiga Graphics Archive [2026-07-07]
  The Amiga Graphics Archive is a meticulously curated collection of graphics made with or for the Commodore Amiga home computer, spanning applications, games, logos, publications, and demoscene artwork. Regularly updated with scans from classic Amiga magazines and rare digital art, it also features technical articles on display technology, screen modes, and fascinating color cycling animation techniques.
• Amiga Web Directory [2026-07-07]
  The Amiga Web Directory was operated by the Champaign-Urbana Computer Users Group (CUCUG) from 1994 to 2000, serving as one of the most comprehensive link collections for Amiga computer resources on the web. Now retired, this archived version still points to surviving Amiga communities, news archives, file repositories like Aminet, and other resources for fans of the classic Commodore platform.
• Anachronistic Restorationist Center - eXtended / eXcited / eXperimental [2026-07-07]
  ARC-X, run by J. R. Young, is a personal station dedicated to extending the life of old hardware and software, maintaining obscure X11 programs, and documenting ancient systems in the modern age. The site features an abandonware scrapyard, hardware restoration notes, and a toolbox of configs and manuals, all with a charming smallweb philosophy.
• Archaic Binary | Retro Telnet BBS Systems | Legacy Bulletin Boards, ANSI Games & More [2026-07-07]
  Archaic Binary is a retro BBS hub offering live Telnet and SSH connections to legacy bulletin board systems, complete with ANSI art, classic door games like Legend of the Red Dragon and Usurper, and support for message networks such as FidoNet and Amiganet. Visitors can connect directly in-browser via an HTML5 terminal or download SyncTERM, making old-school BBS culture accessible to a new generation of retro computing enthusiasts.
• ARRIVING AT DOKODEMO V3 [2026-07-07]
  Dokodemo is a personal hobby site styled as a love letter to the early days of the web, complete with old-web design conventions like audio autoplay, iFrames, and display requirements for specific browsers and screen sizes. The creator describes it as a time capsule, evoking the spirit of vintage personal homepages with cute colors and themed aesthetics.
• ASCII by Jason Scott [2026-07-07]
  Jason Scott's long-running personal weblog covers digital history, archiving, BBS culture, vintage computing, and the preservation of internet history, drawing on his work with the Internet Archive and Archive Team. Known for projects like the BBS Documentary and GET LAMP, Scott writes with sharp wit about technology, culture, and the people who shaped the early internet.
• athe52's site [2026-07-07]
  athe52's personal site is a curated link collection focused on retro computing, old-web nostalgia, and vintage software, featuring resources like Office 97 assistants, GeoCities-era GIFs, and early text-to-speech tools. The creator is also working on several original projects including lunarOS History and Project Fossil, with a clear love for preserving and exploring computing history.
• Awii's website [2026-07-07]
  Awii's website is an old-web style personal homepage with a retro cyberspace aesthetic, complete with a classic 'click to enter' splash page and playful references to Windows XP and Internet Explorer compatibility. Part of the Hotline Webring, this site leans into nostalgic early internet culture with its minimal but characterful entry portal.
• b5c0 [2026-07-07]
  A reference page from the 'chargif' section of lost-theory.org, displaying character glyph b5c0 as an image, likely part of a larger archive of encoded or legacy character set graphics. The site appears to catalog individual characters from an older encoding system, making it a niche resource for retro computing and character set research.
• Batch File Basics -- A Doctor DOS Tutorial [2026-07-07]
  Doctor DOS Betamax's tutorial walks beginners through writing DOS batch files, covering everything from basic syntax and advantages to a simple menu system and advanced techniques. With 500+ downloadable batch files, dozens of tips, and multiple lesson pages, this is a thorough old-school reference for anyone looking to automate DOS operations.
• BBS [2026-07-07]
  The Documentary: The official site for 'BBS: The Documentary,' a 2005 film by Jason Scott chronicling the history of Bulletin Board Systems and the communities that formed around them. It includes trailers, reviews, a BBS software list, an event history timeline, and a BBS history library, making it an invaluable archive for anyone interested in pre-internet online culture.
• Bill's World [2026-07-07]
  Bill's World is a nostalgic tribute to the GeoCities era, styled as a time portal letting visitors "surf the web like it's 1999." The site leans fully into old-web aesthetics with hand-coded HTML, GIMP graphics, webrings, and a retro personal homepage feel.
• Blue VMU [2026-04-18]
  Blue VMU is a personal site dedicated to the Sega Dreamcast, exploring the console from a fresh modern perspective rather than pure nostalgia. The creator documents their hands-on experience with the system through posts, a gallery, and notes on hardware projects like battery replacement and retrobriting.
• Building a Website Fit for 1999 - Wesley Moore [2026-07-07]
  Wesley Moore documents his journey building a retro-styled personal website written in HTML4 and served over plain HTTP, designed to work on vintage browsers like IE 4 on Mac OS 8.1. The post covers experimenting with hosting on a RISC-V ESP32-C3 microcontroller using bare-metal Rust before settling on a more practical home server setup, making it a fascinating read for anyone interested in old-web aesthetics and modern tinkering.
• Bulletin Board Systems Toolbox [2026-07-07]
  The Bulletin Board Systems Toolbox is a curated collection of BBS-related software packages, tools, and resources for Linux console users who want to connect to and run classic bulletin board systems. Maintained by a hobbyist who goes deep on the subject, the site offers downloadable terminal utilities like Qodem, ANSI art viewers, offline mail readers, and a personal top-100 retro games list spanning ZX Spectrum, Amiga, and DOS.
• Bunker of DOOM 8-) Welcome! [2026-07-07]
  Bunker of DOOM is a sprawling hobbyist resource dedicated to retro-tech enthusiasts and hardware hackers, packed with vacuum tube manuals, laser experiments, nuclear radiation topics, and vintage electronics documentation. Created by Konrad H. Johnson and a small team, the site offers free access to rare technical references including RCA and Sylvania tube manuals, schematics, and hands-on project write-ups from the world of experimental electronics.
• Bytemoth's (Astoundingly Effervescent) Brook [2026-07-07]
  Bytemoth's Brook is a hand-typed, old-web-styled personal hub from self-described 'Digital Warlock Bytemoth,' featuring a catalog of built and acquired computers, software recommendations, web browsing guides, and collected links to quality sites. The retro aesthetic is deliberate and detailed, drawing on Windows 98 icons, archived Geocities imagery, and sub-HD design choices that make it feel like a lovingly preserved artifact of early internet culture.
• c1e9 [2026-07-07]
  A reference page from the 'ocrat' project displaying character glyph c1e9, likely part of a larger archive of character encoding or font bitmap data from legacy computing systems. The site appears to document extended ASCII or Unicode characters rendered as GIF images, making it a niche but useful resource for retro computing and character set research.
• c8ad [2026-07-07]
  A reference page from the OCRAT character GIF archive displaying the Unicode character c8ad as an image alongside related character data. Part of a larger encoding resource at lost-theory.org, this page serves as a lookup tool for legacy CJK and extended character set glyphs.
• Cameron's World [2026-02-01]
  Cameron's World is a stunning web-collage assembled by Cameron Askin from thousands of archived GeoCities pages spanning 1994 to 2009, celebrating the raw, chaotic beauty of early personal homepages. Equal parts art project and digital archaeology, it immerses visitors in the animated GIFs, gaudy backgrounds, and unfiltered self-expression that defined the old web.
• CD.TEXTFILES.COM [2026-07-07]
  The Past on Plastic: CD.TEXTFILES.COM is a digital archive preserving data from 'shovelware' CDs of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which inadvertently captured a wealth of BBS-era content. A treasure trove for retro computing enthusiasts, it offers a rare window into early online culture through the very discs that tried to cash in on it.
• Chasnah's Homepage [2026-07-07]
  Chasnah's homepage is a labor-of-love personal site centered on restoring and preserving 80s and 90s computers, with sections for projects, a gallery of vintage Macintosh hardware, a file archive, and hand-coded web design philosophy. The site also links to a companion project called The Rakko Project, a vintage-computer-accessible archive of drivers, documentation, and software for old machines.
• Chris Mazuc's Personal Web Page [2026-07-07]
  Chris Mazuc's personal project hub showcases hands-on restorations of vintage Sun and HP workstations alongside electronics builds like a reflow oven, a bench frequency reference, and an Asterisk-based vintage phone intercom. The site doubles as a window into a tinkerer's workshop, blending retro hardware revival with hobbyist electronics and networking projects.
• Classic Computer Magazine Archive [2026-07-07]
  The Classic Computer Magazine Archive preserves the full text of beloved early personal computing magazines including Antic, Creative Computing, Compute!, and many others spanning the 1970s through 1990s. Visitors can search over 10,000 articles covering Atari, Commodore, TRS-80, and other vintage platforms, making this an invaluable research archive for retro computing enthusiasts.
• Classic Sites Archive [2026-07-07]
  The Classic Sites Archive is a passion project dedicated to preserving old websites built with Google Sites' classic layout, rescued from digital oblivion using HTTrack and hosted on Neocities. Visitors can browse a curated gallery of these nostalgic web relics while reading the webmaster's reflections on the slow death of early internet creativity.
• Còbra!'s Retro Room [2026-07-07]
  Còbra! is a multilingual Glaswegian whose Neocities homepage showcases a passion for retro games, vintage tech, and old media, with the intro written in Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and even Ainu. The site is a charming old-web personal space with guestbook, webrings, and a distinctly retro aesthetic that reflects the creator's love of collecting classic technology and media.
• Cock Goblins - Cockgobl.in [2026-07-07]
  Katie's personal Neocities-style site blends old computer aesthetics with personal blogging, featuring posts about a Toshiba Libretto 100CT, BeOS and HaikuOS themes, and a Japan trip. The site has a charming retro feel with a music player, guestbook, gif collection, and webring memberships that draw in fellow fans of vintage tech.
• Computering Webring! [2026-07-07]
  Computering is a webring connecting websites whose creators are interested in, write about, or style their pages after older computers and operating systems like Windows 98, MacOS System 7, and Windows XP. With just 5 members so far, it's a small but charming community celebrating the aesthetics and nostalgia of vintage OS design on the modern web.
• CrustyWindows [2026-07-07]
  CrustyWindows is a wiki dedicated to archiving and documenting bootleg Windows operating system modifications, spanning versions from Windows 1.x all the way through Windows 11. With 544 articles cataloging modified ISOs, custom editions, and unofficial Windows variants created by hobbyists, it's a fascinating deep dive into the underground world of Windows modding culture.
• CyberKutak Retro Portal [2026-07-07]
  CyberKutak is a Bosnian/Croatian retro-styled personal portal celebrating the nostalgic aesthetics of 1990s and 2000s web design, packed with humor sections including jokes about Balkans, blondes, animals, cars, Yugo, and politics. Created by a geekring member, the site also features funny pictures slideshows, wallpapers, fractals, and a recipes section, all wrapped in an old-school internet vibe.
• Daniel's virtual place [2026-07-07]
  Daniel's Spanish-language personal page started as a hub for old computers and curious internet links, evolving into a lively collection of GIFs, webcams, webrings, and assorted oddities. The site carries a strong old-web aesthetic with retro construction banners, button collections, and membership in multiple webrings including the Retronaut webring.
• Deja Vu – (re-)creating web history [2026-07-07]
  Deja Vu, created by Par Lannero, is a project dedicated to recreating web history through browser emulators that let you surf the modern web using ancient browsers like the CERN Line Mode Browser and Mosaic. It's a fascinating piece of internet archaeology offering a nostalgic and technically impressive look at how the web appeared through the eyes of its earliest software.
• dpolakovic.space [2026-07-07]
  David Polakovic's personal site features a noticeboard where he hunts for vintage hardware, including Windows 98 serial keys and Pentium i586 processors at specific stepping levels. The site also hosts a self-managed Git server for personal projects, including a Mars clock/navigator app, giving it a distinctly hands-on retro computing and hobbyist flavor.
• Dusk's computer room [2026-07-07]
  Dusk's personal corner of the web styled as a 'computer room,' evoking the aesthetic of Windows 95 and 16-bit era computing. The site features retro-style imagery and participates in the No AI webring, signaling a commitment to hand-crafted, human-made web content.
• E-Mail Club [2026-07-07]
  The E-Mail Club on tilde.club is a curated list of users on the tilde.club Unix server who enjoy exchanging slow, chatty emails with strangers. Maintained by user ~kake, it captures a charming old-internet tradition of pen-pal style correspondence through shared shell server accounts.
• elcome to 95revive - Bringing old computers new life - W [2026-07-07]
  95revive is dedicated to breathing new life into old computers, offering articles, services, and a project called VirtualXP for vintage Windows enthusiasts. With a tagline echoing Windows 95's iconic phrase, this site blends nostalgia with practical resources for retro hardware lovers.
• Elijah's Homepage [2026-07-07]
  Elijah's Homepage is a charming old-web-style personal site featuring a link collection, friends' websites, and quirky updates with references to classics like LEGO Island and Slingo. The site participates in the Geekring webring and maintains several sub-projects including CafeNet and PCDB, giving it a distinctly retro computing community feel.
• EmuOS v1.0 [2026-07-07]
  EmuOS is a browser-based emulation environment that mimics the look and feel of late 1990s PC operating systems, complete with a simulated BIOS boot sequence and retro desktop themes. Built by Emupedia as a nonprofit preservation project, it aims to archive and make classic games and software accessible through a nostalgic, user-friendly interface.
• Engineering Sample Vault [2026-07-07]
  Run by Sam 'Doc TB' Demeulemeester, this vault is a deep-dive resource dedicated to engineering sample CPUs, the pre-production processors issued by manufacturers during chip development that often expose cancelled features, transitional steppings, and unreleased configurations. A labor of love since 2002, the site chronicles the history and variations of ES CPUs alongside broader vintage computing restoration and experimentation.
• ENTER THE WEBSITE [2026-07-07]
  Inky's personal Neocities site greets visitors with a classic old-web splash page complete with autoplay music warnings and frameset-based navigation. The retro aesthetic and technical choices mirror the geocities-era web, making it a charming example of handcrafted personal web design.
• Evolution of the Scrollbar [2026-04-18]
  Created by Sébastien Matos as an ECAL student project, this visual timeline traces the evolution of the scrollbar from Xerox Star in 1981 through Windows 10 in 2015, with screenshots of each OS interface. It is a concise and fascinating piece of UI history that shows how a seemingly mundane interface element transformed over four decades of computing.
• FilesFound! Homepage [2026-04-18]
  FilesFound! is a digital archaeology project by PIXELATEDCROWN, dedicated to excavating and documenting the contents of obsolete storage media like floppy disks, VHS tapes, MiniDiscs, and game cartridges. Each article highlights a unique discovery, from vintage screensavers to award-winning CD-ROM art collections, preserving digital artifacts that might otherwise be lost forever.
• FogCam - The World's Oldest Webcam [2026-07-07]
  FogCam is the world's oldest continuously operating webcam, streaming live views of San Francisco State University since 1994 as a student project in the Department of Instructional Technologies. Created by Jeff Schwartz and Dan Wong, this piece of living internet history has been featured by the NY Times and CNN and holds a place on Wikipedia's list of the oldest websites still online.
• FortuneCity - Higher Intellect Vintage Wiki [2026-07-07]
  Part of the Higher Intellect Vintage Wiki, this page documents FortuneCity, the classic free web hosting platform that let users build homepages in themed virtual districts during the late 1990s. It serves as a historical reference entry covering FortuneCity's features, community structure, and international expansion, alongside related services like GeoCities and Angelfire.
• FrogFind! [2026-07-07]
  FrogFind! is a search engine purpose-built for vintage and retro computers, stripping down search results to be lightweight enough for old hardware to handle. Created by Action Retro, it draws on DuckDuckGo, Brave, and Google as its backend sources, making the modern web accessible from machines that would otherwise struggle.
• Geoblinkies [2026-07-07]
  Geoblinkies is a transcription project and search engine dedicated to cataloguing the tiny animated blinkie graphics that once decorated countless Geocities pages. It lets visitors search a database of transcribed blinkie text, making these nostalgic web artifacts accessible and discoverable again.
• Geocities - The Torrent - Academic Torrents [2026-07-07]
  Hosted on Academic Torrents, this page provides access to the Archive Team's massive 688GB torrent of the entire Geocities website, scraped before Yahoo shut it down in October 2009. It is an invaluable digital preservation artifact for anyone interested in early web history, containing thousands of files across 7zip and tar archives along with links to live Geocities mirrors.
• Geocities Archive Geocities Mirror / The 90s Archive (1990s 2000s nineties) / The Early web [2026-07-07]
  OoCities.org is a living archive of the original GeoCities website, preserving thousands of personal pages from the 1990s and early 2000s before the platform was shut down in October 2009. Visitors can browse the full collection organized by the original GeoCities neighborhood system, making it an invaluable time capsule of early web culture and history.
• GeoCities Memory [2026-07-07]
  GeoCities Memory is a tribute and archive site dedicated to the legendary GeoCities web hosting platform, evoking the nostalgic era of early personal homepages. It serves as a digital memorial to one of the internet's most iconic communities, preserving the spirit of the old web.
• GeoHoods @ Blade's Place - Geocities Homestead Neighborhoods and Suburbs [2026-07-07]
  Blade's Place hosts a comprehensive reference guide to every GeoCities Homestead neighborhood and suburb, complete with icons, history, and a detailed explanation of how the old themed address system worked. This lovingly researched page is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in early web history, preserving details about the community structure that made GeoCities a landmark of the 1990s internet.
• giraffe's homepage [2026-07-07]
  Giraffe's personal homepage is a nostalgic old-web style site featuring a Sonic CD background track, a virtual Tamagotchi pet, webrings, and a guestbook. The site leans into classic early-internet aesthetics with blinkies, buttons, and a maintained-for-historical-purposes note pointing visitors to the creator's newer home.
• Google BBS Terminal [2026-07-07]
  Google BBS Terminal is a creative art project by N. Landsteiner of mass:werk that reimagines Google Search as if it were a 1980s bulletin board system, complete with green and amber monochrome display modes and CRT scan line effects. Built with JavaScript, HTML5, and a custom terminal library, it's a fully functional novelty tool that lets you search the web through an authentic-feeling retro terminal interface.
• GopherSpace [2026-07-07]
  Schroeder's GopherSpace on SDF is a charming phlog (Gopher blog) dedicated to obsolete and retro technology, with entries covering devices like the Sony PSP, Palm Tungsten, Sega Saturn, MiniDisc, Bandai Wonderswan, and OpenBSD adventures. With dozens of phlog entries spanning years of old computer challenges and niche hardware exploration, it's a treasure trove for anyone nostalgic about forgotten tech.
• Grizz's World [2026-07-07]
  Grizz's World is a charmingly retro personal homepage from Iowa packed with ASCII art, computer logs, recipes, and musings from a self-described computer nut who references Alf, Growing Pains, and an uncertain enthusiasm for Star Trek: The Next Generation. The site features original BASIC software available via FTP, a guestbook, webrings, and a scattershot mix of old-web personality that makes it a genuine time capsule.
• Ground Control - Home [2026-07-07]
  Ground Control is a personal site dedicated to BBS (Bulletin Board System) culture, featuring guides on how to access BBSLink and DoorParty door game score tracking. The site has an old-web aesthetic with hand-coded pages and participates in multiple retro-themed webrings including the Hotline webring, retronaut webring, and geekring.
• GUIdebook [2026-07-07]
  Graphical User Interface gallery: GUIdebook is an extensive archive created by Marcin Wichary dedicated to preserving and showcasing the history of graphical user interfaces across dozens of operating systems, from Windows and Mac OS to BeOS, NeXTSTEP, and Amiga OS. Visitors can explore screenshots, icons, splash screens, sound files, timelines, advertisements, and articles tracing the evolution of GUI design from the earliest experiments to the early 2000s.
• HELLO SAILOR! [2026-07-07]
  George's colorful personal site celebrates retro web aesthetics and old internet culture, with pixel art, mini-banners, and 32x32 icons at its heart. The site is actively under construction with plans for shrines, an affiliates page, and hidden easter eggs that make it a charming corner of the modern Neocities scene.
• hey [2026-07-07]
  The personal homepage of pivotman319, a self-described fox wolf person who admins BetaWiki and dedicates their time to preserving and documenting ancient Microsoft software builds. The page is a minimal landing hub linking out to their federated social presence and blog, centered around their passion for pre-release and historical Windows software.
• Hey! It's R.K. Smith! [2026-07-07]
  Ripley (R.K. Smith) runs this colorful personal site organized around a retro computing aesthetic, with a VCFMW (Vintage Computer Festival Midwest) trip report front and center alongside sections for games, music, and miscellaneous hobbies. The BIOS-style boot screen, DOS directory commands, and Pentium III CPU readout give it an unmistakably old-school computing identity that makes it a fun destination for vintage tech enthusiasts.
• High-tech mid-life crisis. Who is Hohokam? [2026-07-07]
  Hohokam's personal site is a self-described 'high-tech mid-life crisis' packed with hands-on projects spanning retro 8-bit computers, hacked consoles, 3D printing, home lab networking, and Raspberry Pi tinkering. Alongside the tech projects, the site features record collecting, hi-fi audio upgrades, and a curated collection of Portland street art, making it a genuinely eclectic Web 1.0-style corner of the internet.
• HoleNet Cobalt 5.0 [2026-07-07]
  Techokami's HoleNet is a quirky personal site styled as a retro desktop interface, complete with a working Atari emulator (Javatari), solitaire, a notepad, and various ROM hacking tools for classic Sonic games. The downloads section showcases original PHP-based ROM rippers for a wide range of Sonic titles, making it a genuine resource for retro game hackers and enthusiasts.
• home [2026-07-07]
  MeowZone is a quirky personal homepage built with FrontPage 98/2000, lovingly styled in the old-web tradition by a creator known as flpydisk.sys. The site celebrates retro web authoring tools and browser culture, complete with browser compatibility notes and a SweepRing webring badge.
• Home [2026-07-07]
  Random's personal corner of the web champions older software, legacy devices, and a deliberate rejection of modern AI-infused tech, built using Microsoft Expression Web 4 as a nod to classic web tools. The site features projects, a devices section, a guestbook, and webring participation, making it a cozy hub for like-minded fans of vintage computing culture.
• Home - Fuego's Cave [2026-07-07]
  Fuego's Cave is the personal site of MadCreeper, creator of BonziBUDDY Rewritten and PeedyBUDDY, two projects that revive the classic Microsoft Agent animated desktop companions. The site reflects a deep enthusiasm for old Windows operating systems and Microsoft Agent technology, with links to projects, a webring, and community ties to TMAFE and agentpedia.
• Home - Gridranger [2026-07-07]
  Gridranger is the personal blog of Dávid Bárdos, a tech-enthusiast whose posts range from KDE Neon tweaks and degoogling experiments to Win 3.1 nostalgia and custom terminal fonts. The site blends retro computing affection with modern Linux tinkering, sprinkled with gaming backlog updates and personal reflections.
• Home of the Internet Graveyard and more [2026-07-07]
  SlimySomething's eclectic personal site features the 'Internet Graveyard,' a section dedicated to dead sites, lost platforms, and digital sellouts, alongside a link dump of old maps, free game soundtracks, and GUI customization relics. With extras like CRT monitor simulation code, a dream journal, and hot takes on internet culture and computers, this site is a loving tribute to the old web aesthetic.
• How It Works | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age [2026-07-07]
  One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age is a research blog by Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied digging through the archived Geocities torrent, surfacing and analyzing old-web artifacts like GIFs, MIDI files, and defunct personal pages. This particular post explains the automated process behind their companion Tumblr blog that screenshots and posts rescued Geocities pages, offering a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at digital archaeology.
• Ian's Web Sight! [2026-07-07]
  Ian Linkletter's tilde.club personal page greets visitors with a retro-style 'ACTIVATE FRAMES PLEASE!' prompt, evoking the classic era of mid-90s web design and frame-based layouts. Hosted on the collaborative Unix system tilde.club, this site is a charming artifact of old-web culture with minimal but nostalgic content.
• ilovehewlettpackard.com [2026-07-07]
  A lovingly minimal tribute to Hewlett Packard, featuring imagery dedicated to the iconic computing and electronics brand. The site is a charming slice of old-web nostalgia for HP enthusiasts who remember the company fondly.
• Index of /print [2026-07-07]
  Danamania's print archive is a treasure trove of vintage Apple and retro computing ephemera, offering downloadable posters, brochures, stickers, and datasheets spanning classic hardware like the Macintosh 128k, Apple IIe, Quadra 950, and beyond. The collection blends historical authenticity with playful modern recreations, making it a go-to resource for enthusiasts who want to decorate their spaces with period-accurate or lovingly crafted vintage tech memorabilia.
• Index of S546's homepage on remotes.club [2026-07-07]
  S546's homepage on remotes.club is a minimalist ASCII-art personal page hosted on a retro-styled community server. The site features a striking text-based banner in the old-web Unix tradition, evoking the aesthetics of bulletin board systems and early terminal culture.
• INT 10h [2026-02-01]
  INT10h.org is VileR's personal site dedicated to retro computing fonts, graphics, and code, taking its name from the classic BIOS interrupt used for video functions on old PCs. Visitors can explore a rich collection of authentic IBM-era bitmap fonts, retro graphics, and related projects that make it a go-to resource for DOS and vintage computer aesthetics.
• Is Breaking Into A Timesharing System a Crime? [2026-07-07]
  Atari Archives hosts digitized pages from 'The Best of Creative Computing Volume 1' (1976), one of the earliest and most influential computing magazines. This particular page presents a fascinating early discussion of computer security, timesharing system intrusion, and the ethical and legal questions around what we would now call hacking.
• James Friend | PCE.js IBM PC/XT in the Browser [2026-07-07]
  James Friend's PCE.js project brings vintage computing history to life by running an emulated 286 IBM PC/XT with Windows 3.0 directly in your browser, no installation required. Built as a port of Hampa Hug's PCE emulator, the project also includes demos of classic Mac Plus environments and iconic games like Wolf3D, Civilization, and Monkey Island.
• jeith! [2026-07-07]
  Jeith's Neocities personal site lovingly recreates old-web aesthetics with pixel art collections, photo books, song diaries, art galleries, and fan shrines including a dedicated Mario Party fanpage. The site also features the WiiRing webring and embraces Y2K web culture with webrings, fanlistings, pixel clubs, and a guestbook.
• joshua stein [2026-07-07]
  Joshua Stein's personal tech blog is a deep dive into retro computing projects, with a strong focus on vintage Macs, classic system software, and hardware tinkering like fitting an M4 Mac Mini inside an iMac G4. He also develops and releases his own retro software including a classic Mac IRC client and BlueSCSI utilities, making this a genuinely creative corner of the old-school Mac enthusiast world.
• jwz.org [2026-07-07]
  Jamie Zawinski, co-founder of Netscape and Mozilla.org and primary developer of Lucid Emacs, maintains this personal hub linking to his blog, DNA Lounge nightclub, hacks, and other projects. A piece of internet history from one of the most influential figures in early open-source and browser development.
• KRY.PT BBS [2026-07-07]
  KRY.PT BBS is a retro-style bulletin board system accessible via SSH and Telnet, evoking the classic era of dial-up BBS culture with its ASCII art logo and terminal aesthetics. Visitors can connect directly through command-line protocols, making it a functional throwback to pre-web networked computing.
• LainNet [2026-07-07]
  Spaztron64's personal homepage LainNet is a hub for PC-98 retro computing enthusiasts, featuring guides, a Neko Project 2 GDI compatibility table, demoscene productions, and archived websites from defunct sources. The site also includes a 2D and 3DCG art gallery, a blog, a BBS, and various downloads, making it a rich and eclectic corner of the old web.
• maple syrup and pancakes [2026-07-07]
  Maple 'Mavica' Syrup's cozy corner of the web, built and maintained on a Windows 98 Compaq Armada running RetroZilla, showcasing a genuine passion for vintage hardware and software. Visitors will find a growing collection of handcrafted Windows-style pixel art icons, personal updates on retro web development, and a warm old-web aesthetic that feels authentically late 90s.
• Maurice's Den [2026-07-07]
  Maurice's Den is the charmingly retro homepage of Maurice the Rat and his hare companion Hazel, two fictional time-travelling characters who collect vintage technology and explore old junk across time and space. The site features a dedicated Vintage Tech section, commissioned character art, and a heartfelt manifesto about recapturing the spirit of the old web, complete with a guestbook and TheOldNet webring membership.
• meta | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age [2026-07-07]
  One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age is Olia Lialina's research blog documenting her deep dive into the GeoCities torrent archive, analyzing and celebrating the aesthetics, culture, and quirks of early web personal homepages. Posts cover everything from MIDI files and under-construction GIFs to ontologies of old-web design patterns, making it a fascinating scholarly and nostalgic excavation of 1990s-2000s internet culture.
• Midnight Town - Home [2026-07-07]
  Eris's personal corner of the web, Midnight Town, is built around a love of vintage Macs and mechanical keyboards, with sections dedicated to cataloguing classic Apple hardware and exploring niche keyboard finds. The site embraces old-web nostalgia and is proudly made on an iMac G5, complete with webring memberships that capture the spirit of the early internet.
• Minivac 601 Simulator [2026-07-07]
  A simulator for the Minivac 601, a vintage educational digital computer kit from the 1960s designed by Claude Shannon. This resource lets visitors interact with a faithful recreation of one of the earliest consumer computing devices, making it a fascinating piece of computing history.
• Mistigris - outlier computer arts since 1994 [2026-07-07]
  Mistigris is a long-running computer arts group founded in 1994 that releases regular 'artpacks' featuring ANSI art, ASCII art, and other digital works rooted in the BBS and demoscene tradition. With monthly releases dating back decades, a 30th anniversary collection, and connections to tools like PabloDraw and the 16colo.rs gallery, this is a living hub for oldschool computer art culture.
• mizunotic [2026-07-07]
  Mizunotic is a personal Neocities page participating in both the Hotline Webring and the Retronaut Webring, signaling a love for old-web aesthetics and retro internet culture. The site appears to be a minimal but charming corner of the indie web, connected to communities dedicated to vintage computing and nostalgia.
• MSN Forever! [2026-07-07]
  MSN Forever is a nostalgic tribute to MSN Messenger and the classic MSN era of the early internet, celebrating the look and feel of a beloved piece of online history. The frames-based layout itself evokes the retro web aesthetic that fans of old-school Microsoft software will immediately recognize.
• Museum of Endangered Sounds [2026-07-07]
  The Museum of Endangered Sounds is a quirky archival project dedicated to preserving the iconic audio signatures of obsolete and fading technology, from dial-up modem screech to the click of an AIM notification. Visitors can browse and play back sounds that defined an era of computing and consumer electronics, making it a nostalgic time capsule for anyone who grew up with these forgotten auditory relics.
• My tilde.club page [2026-07-07]
  Greg Sainsbury's minimal tilde.club page, where he reflects on finally figuring out how to edit it and pays homage to a terrible personal webpage he had in the late 1990s. The username '4mvrs' is a deliberate callback to his old qlink.queensu.ca address, giving the page a nostalgic nod to early web culture.
• My Windows 7 Dream Home [2026-07-07]
  A personal nekoweb page themed around Windows 7, evoking nostalgia for the beloved Microsoft operating system. The site appears to be a minimalist aesthetic tribute to the Windows 7 era, appealing to fans of retro software and classic desktop environments.
• NANDRAID2 - HOME [2026-07-07]
  NANDRAID2 is the personal homepage of 'raid', a hobbyist based in Fort Worth who hosts their site on a credit-card-sized computer connected via Ethernet. The site features a bright new layout with webrings, a project page, and a blog, giving it a classic old-web personal homepage feel with a hardware-tinkering twist.
• netizen club [2026-07-07]
  Netizen Club is a collective dedicated to the retro web revival, bringing together old-computer enthusiasts through a webring, curated link cache, homepages directory, and a queer web 1.0 forum called Lesbiaboard. The community also offers NSV streams designed for playback on very old computers and connects members via Mastodon, IRC, and XMPP.
• Netscape Blog [2026-07-07]
  Netscape Navigator's tilde.town blog chronicles a hands-on enthusiasm for retro computing, covering everything from installing CF card SSDs on vintage Pentium III machines to tinkering with classic operating systems like Windows 3.1 and Haiku OS. Posts are pulled from a Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) feed, giving the site an offbeat decentralized-internet flavor alongside nature snapshots, gadget links, and old-school web aesthetics.
• Nika's Nook [2026-07-07]
  Nika's Nook belongs to Nikita Bhandari, a 28-year-old IT worker from Portland who troubleshoots computers, installs operating systems, and collects vintage consoles including an NES and Sega Genesis. The site leans into old-web aesthetics with webrings, cliques, and a guestbook while serving as Nika's personal corner of the internet.
• Nineties Website [2026-07-07]
  Charlie Harvey's loving tribute to the aesthetic and spirit of 1990s web design, complete with retro GIFs, ALL CAPS HTML nostalgia, and curated links to other old-school-style sites. A celebration of the amateur, hand-crafted early web that doubles as a mini directory of retro-inspired pages and webrings keeping the nineties internet alive.
• Nostalgia Air [2026-07-07]
  Nostalgia Air is a comprehensive online archive of free schematics, service manuals, and technical references for antique and vintage radios, covering models from the 1920s through the 1960s. Visitors can access scanned Beitman manuals, RCA Red Books, Zenith service guides, tube cross-reference data, and more, all organized by manufacturer and model.
• Obsolete Computer Museum [2026-07-07]
  Running since 1995, the Obsolete Computer Museum catalogs a wide range of vintage and obsolete computers with individual exhibit pages for machines like the Acorn Electron, TI-99/4A, Zenith Z89, and dozens more. Visitors can browse hardware exhibits, submit questions to the helpline, and even donate old equipment to the collection.
• oerrorpage [2026-07-07]
  Oerrorpage is a gleefully chaotic personal site that celebrates old-web aesthetics, obsolete HTML tags like the marquee, and retro web culture with webrings, 88x31 buttons, and a MIDI collection. The creator leans hard into nostalgic internet absurdity, featuring flash content, software reviews, a logo archive, and participation in a dozen webrings.
• Old versions of Linux [2026-07-07]
  A comprehensive archive of old Linux and OS ISO files organized by kernel version, spanning from 1994 through the 2010s, maintained by Vivien Gueant. Visitors can download vintage distributions like Slackware, Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat, and even OS/2 Warp directly for use with VirtualBox or physical media.
• OMEGALOGIC [2026-07-07]
  OMEGALOGIC is a nostalgic Neocities site dedicated to memoirs and musings about the early web, featuring sections on retro computing, vintage browsers like Netscape, beige box computers, and the culture of 1990s internet life. The creator, Omega, has built a charmingly period-accurate page complete with ASCII art, a guestbook, and a retro gaming top-10 list that evokes the feeling of browsing the web in 1997.
• One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age | Digging through the Geocities Torrent [2026-07-07]
  Run by researcher Olia Lialina, this blog digs through the massive GeoCities torrent archive to surface, analyze, and celebrate the visual and cultural artifacts of early web culture. Expect screenshot showcases, interviews with creators, and thoughtful commentary on GIFs, MIDI, blingee stamps, and the forgotten aesthetics of the 1990s and 2000s web.
• Ov3rl0rd's Site - Front Page [2026-07-07]
  Ov3rl0rd's Site is a minimalist personal homepage styled with a retro 1999 aesthetic, featuring images and embedded audio for an old-web vibe. The sparse structure and vintage copyright date suggest a nostalgic tribute to early internet culture.
• Pasokon Deacon | Classic East Asian PC Platform and Software History [2026-07-07]
  Pasokon Deacon is a hub for a creator who has been covering Japanese and East Asian home computer history since 2020, exploring classic PC platforms, software, creators, and subcultures through videos, articles, and streams. A rare English-language resource diving deep into the world of vintage Japanese PCs, it links out to YouTube, Twitch, and other channels where the bulk of the content lives.
• Patched Torrent | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age [2026-07-07]
  "One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age" is a research and archival blog dedicated to digging through the massive Geocities torrent, surfacing artifacts and insights from the old web. This particular post by despens announces a unified patched torrent combining the original Geocities release with its patches, making it easier for preservationists to seed the data indefinitely.
• PC98 Images [2026-07-07]
  PC98 Images is a long-running archive dedicated to distributing disk images for the classic NEC PC-98 platform, active since 2003. Visitors can browse a library of disk images with descriptions, download selected games added weekly, and submit requests for specific titles.
• Peelopaalu - Directory [2026-04-18]
  Peelopaalu is a hand-curated link directory maintained by a single person until July 2024, collecting a wonderfully eclectic mix of old web gems, retro tech blogs, Habbo Hotel archives, ASCII art, DOS resources, and internet oddities. The directory spans hundreds of links across five pages, offering a snapshot of niche internet culture that feels like a guided tour through forgotten corners of the web.
• Phoenix - Chat Like It's 1999 [2026-07-07]
  Phoenix, created by Wildman Productions, is a revival service that brings back the classic instant messaging platforms of the late 1990s, including AIM, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, and MSN, letting users chat using the original software clients once more. The project is a labor of love dedicated to preserving the social networking experience of the pre-Facebook era, complete with server infrastructure, custom client downloads, and an active user community.
• Phoenix - Chat Like It's 1999 [2026-02-01]
  Phoenix, run by Wildman Productions, is a revival service that brings back functional AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN, and ICQ servers so users can chat like it's 1999 using the original client software. The project is a labor of love dedicated to preserving the experience of 1990s social networking, complete with downloads, compatibility guides, and active user counts showing real people connecting through these nostalgic platforms.
• pngwen.sdf.org [2026-07-07]
  Pngwen's Den is a personal site hosted on SDF focused on vintage and retro computing, with posts covering Commodore 64 assembly, the RCA 1802 processor membership card builds, and the Logo programming language. The site has an old-web charm complete with web pets, a guestbook, and membership in retro-themed webrings like the Retronaut Webring.
• PurpleHello98 [2026-07-07]
  PurpleHello98 is an old-web style personal site participating in multiple retro-themed webrings including the Retronaut Webring and the Hotline Webring. The site leans into vintage internet aesthetics and community, with a strong anti-AI stance signaled by its circuit board imagery.
• RECOIL [2026-07-07]
  RECOIL (Retro Computer Image Library) is a free, open-source image viewer and converter that opens 552 native picture formats from vintage platforms including Commodore, Amiga, Atari, ZX Spectrum, and MSX. Available as standalone apps and plugins for Android, Windows, macOS, Linux, and in-browser, it is an essential tool for anyone preserving or exploring old-school computer graphics.
• RECOIL - Formats [2026-07-07]
  RECOIL (Retro Computer Image Library) is a software library and viewer that supports an astonishing 552 image file formats from vintage home computers including Atari, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amiga, MSX, and dozens more. This formats reference page catalogs every supported file type by platform, extension, resolution, and color depth, making it an invaluable technical resource for anyone working with old-school computer graphics.
• restorativland [2026-02-01]
  Restorativland is an ambitious preservation project dedicated to excavating and restoring shut-down web ruins like GeoCities, MySpace Music, and AOL Hometown into searchable, visitable, and remixable archives. Positioned somewhere between a library and a living museum, the project works to close the gap between archival and public visibility of the lost early web.
• Retro Computing & Gaming mit Windows 95 & 98, MS-DOS und C64 [2026-07-07]
  Creopard.de is a German-language retro computing hub dedicated to Windows 95, Windows 98, MS-DOS, and the Commodore 64, offering unofficial service packs, drivers, FAQs, and gaming tips you won't find elsewhere. Highlights include the site's own unofficial German Windows 98 SE and Windows 95 OSR2 service packs, plus guides for running DOS multiplayer games like Doom over IPX networks.
• RetromashCool Links | Retromash [2026-07-07]
  Retromash is a UK-based retro and geek culture site, and this page is its curated links collection pointing visitors toward podcasts, blogs, and video channels covering 80s nostalgia, retro gaming, toys, and cult films. A labor of love for anyone deep in the retro/geeky internet scene, it showcases the community of sites and creators that inspired the Retromash project itself.
• Rick's b.log - entry 2026/03/08 [2026-07-07]
  Rick Murray's personal blog covers technical deep-dives into RISC OS, Linux, and retro computing topics, with this entry detailing hands-on testing of a new open-source ShareFS server that bridges RISC OS file sharing to modern platforms. The site blends geekery with personality, offering commentary on tech experiments, French rural life, and niche computing ecosystems that few other bloggers cover.
• Rubenerd [2026-07-07]
  Rubenerd is Ruben Schade's long-running personal blog spanning two decades of posts covering retro computing, BSD Unix, hardware tinkering, anime, coffee, and technology commentary from Sydney, Australia. With archives stretching back to 2004 and a rich tag cloud including retrocomputing, FreeBSD, and hardware, it's a treasure trove for anyone who loves old tech mixed with thoughtful writing.
• Runningman Network [2026-07-07]
  Runningman Network is a revival service that brings back AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), letting users connect vintage AIM clients and chat just like in the early 2000s. It offers downloads including a macOS Apple Silicon-compatible build via WineskinServer, along with setup guides and a registration system to get nostalgic users back online.
• Simone's Blog [2026-07-07]
  Simone Marzulli's personal tech blog blends retro computing adventures with modern experimentation, featuring posts about coding on a TRS-80, hacking LEGO machines with a Flipper Zero, and running AI agents on a Raspberry Pi. The mix of vintage hardware tinkering and cutting-edge projects makes this a genuinely fun read for anyone who loves bridging old and new technology.
• SleepySprout Home [2026-07-07]
  SleepySprout's personal homepage participates in several old-web rings including the Hotline Webring, Geekring, and The Retronaut Webring, signaling a strong retro internet and vintage computing aesthetic. The site leans into nostalgic web culture with a handcrafted Neocities presence that connects visitors to like-minded retro enthusiasts.
• softwareangel.neocities.org [2026-07-07]
  Software Angel's Computer Heaven is a cheerful personal page by Angel, a retro tech enthusiast who collects vintage computers, games, and gadgets spanning Windows, Linux, and Macintosh systems. The site features sections for art, gaming, reading, plushies, shrines, and a dedicated retrotech area, making it a cozy corner of the old web full of personality and nostalgia.
• squishy mushroom [2026-07-07]
  Squishy Mushroom is a visual personal site on Neocities built around a nostalgic Windows 95 aesthetic, featuring retro-styled dialog boxes and an image-heavy layout. The minimal navigation with Previous and Next links suggests a zine-like or gallery browsing experience wrapped in old-web charm.
• Symlink [2026-07-07]
  Grawity's personal technical hub, Symlink, celebrates ARPANET nostalgia and networking projects with a self-described love of 'broken toys and hopeless dreams.' The site hosts documentation, mirrors, personal projects, and network/server information, all wrapped in a classic dark-room hacker aesthetic.
• T E X T F I L E S [2026-07-07]
  Maintained by Jason Scott, this is a comprehensive archive of ANSI art, ASCII art, artpacks, RTTY art, VT100 animations, and electronic magazines documenting the underground computer art scene from 1982 to the present. The collection serves as a library-focused repository preserving the cultural artifacts of BBS and demoscene history, including work from legendary groups like ACiD and iCE.
• T E X T F I L E S D O T C O M [2026-07-07]
  A mirror of the legendary Textfiles.com, this site preserves thousands of ASCII text files from the mid-1980s BBS era, offering a remarkable window into early digital culture and underground computing history. Visitors can explore materials spanning BBS documentation, ASCII art, historical timelines, and audio artifacts that capture the spirit of pre-web online communities.
• T E X T F I L E S D O T C O M [2026-07-07]
  Textfiles.com is a massive archive preserving the text files, culture, and history of the mid-1980s BBS era, curated by Jason Scott as a window into early digital underground communities. Visitors can explore ASCII art, BBS history, documentary materials, and thousands of original text files spanning hacking, phreaking, and early internet subculture.
• T E X T F I L E S D O T C O M [2026-07-07]
  Textfiles.com is a massive archive dedicated to preserving the text files, culture, and history of the mid-1980s BBS scene, curated by Jason Scott over nearly 25 years. Visitors can explore ASCII art, BBS documentation, historical timelines, and thousands of files that capture the early digital underground in its raw, unfiltered form.
• T E X T F I L E S D O T C O M [2026-07-07]
  Textfiles.com, maintained by Jason Scott, is a massive archive preserving thousands of ASCII text files from the mid-1980s BBS era, capturing the raw digital culture of early online communities. The site spans decades of computing history with companion projects covering BBS history, ASCII art scenes, documentary footage, and more, making it an indispensable time capsule of pre-web internet culture.
• T E X T F I L E S D O T C O M [2026-07-07]
  Textfiles.com is a massive archive preserving the text-based culture of the mid-1980s BBS era, collecting thousands of ASCII files that document the early underground internet scene. Run by Jason Scott, the site spans decades of digital history including BBS lists, ASCII art, documentary resources, and text artifacts that offer a vivid window into pre-web computing culture.
• T E X T F I L E S D O T C O M [2026-02-01]
  Textfiles.com, maintained by Jason Scott, is a massive archive of ASCII text files from BBS culture spanning the mid-1980s and earlier, preserving a crucial slice of pre-web digital history. Visitors can explore thousands of documents, ASCII art, BBS lists, digests, and companion projects like the BBS Documentary, making it an indispensable treasure trove for digital history enthusiasts.
• teeeeeega's blog [2026-07-07]
  Teeeeeega's blog is a minimalist diary covering retro tech, digital minimalism, productivity, and scattered personal thoughts. Powered by Bear and accompanied by a newsletter, it offers early access to ideas the author explores in both written posts and YouTube travel videos.
• Telehack [2026-07-07]
  Telehack is a simulated recreation of the early internet and ARPANET, accessible via web browser, telnet, or SSH, letting users explore a nostalgic command-line environment with hundreds of vintage systems to interact with. It faithfully recreates the feel of old-school hacking culture and pre-web network exploration, making it a fascinating time capsule for retro computing enthusiasts.
• THE 88×31 ARCHIVE [2026-07-07]
  A massive archive of over 31,000 unique 88x31 pixel buttons scraped from the GeoCities archives before the site's 2009 shutdown, preserving a beloved artifact of 1990s and 2000s web culture. Visitors can browse paginated galleries of the tiny banners or download the full 156MB dataset, making it an invaluable resource for old-web enthusiasts and digital historians alike.
• The AeroVVVeb [2026-07-07]
  AeroVVVeb is a nostalgic personal site styled as a Windows 98 boot screen, complete with a mock BIOS POST sequence and boot manager interface. It leans into retro computing aesthetics with Flash content via Ruffle and autoplaying audio, making it a charming throwback to the late-90s PC experience.
• The Blue OS Museum [2026-07-07]
  The Blue OS Museum is a collaborative project dedicated to reviewing every build of Windows and MS-DOS from their origins in the 1970s and 80s through 2009, plus documenting GUIs from other companies of that era. Contributors Blue Horizon, gv3u, gogo2, Lace, and Lucas Brooks have assembled reviews, screenshots, and archived videos of old Microsoft releases, making it a treasure trove for operating system history enthusiasts.
• The CPU Shack - History of Microprocessors & CPU Tech [2026-07-07]
  The CPU Shack is a remarkable online museum cataloging over 20,000 processors from 150+ manufacturers, spanning Intel, AMD, Cyrix, Soviet chips, and many obscure historical CPUs. Visitors can explore a "CPU of the Day" feature, EPROM galleries, detailed reference guides, and even purchase reproduction test boards for vintage processor families.
• The Eric Experiment [2026-07-07]
  Eric's personal tech site covers retro computing projects with impressive depth, including a custom-built 486 computer, Toshiba Libretto repairs, Brazilian Famiclones, and vintage web nostalgia. The site spans a wide range of hands-on topics from 3D printing to woodworking, but retro hardware builds and old-school computing are clearly the heart of the experiment.
• The indigoparadox Web Zone [2026-07-07]
  indigoparadox's Web Zone is a technical infodump covering computers, devices, projects, tutorials, and utilities, with a focus on retro and alternative operating systems. The creator logs how-to knowledge for their own reference and shares it publicly, drawing from physical books and obscure corners of the Internet Archive to preserve hard-to-find information.
• The TEXTFILES.COM BBS List [2026-07-07]
  A massive historical archive of dial-up BBS phone numbers compiled from numerous sources, preserving a comprehensive record of Bulletin Board Systems from the pre-internet era. Maintained by Jason Scott of textfiles.com, the list includes FAQs, statistics, an introduction to BBS culture, and even a link to the documentary film about BBSes.
• The TEXTFILES.COM BBS Timeline [2026-07-07]
  A comprehensive chronological timeline of Bulletin Board System history, cataloging 261 events from 1874 through 2002, created as research support for a BBS documentary in production. Built by the team behind TEXTFILES.COM, it invites community contributions and corrections to fill in the gaps of this landmark era in pre-internet online culture.
• thefoggiest.dev [2026-07-07]
  Thefoggiest.dev is a long-running personal blog stretching back to 2005, where the author dives deep into retro computing topics like Atari ST games, MSX hardware, and classic software alongside Linux, self-hosting, and IndieWeb participation. Posts combine nostalgic enthusiasm with technical detail, making it a rich read for anyone who grew up with 8-bit and 16-bit machines.
• This is gasconheart’s web page at tilde club [2026-07-07]
  Gasconheart's tilde.club personal page is home base for a member of the old-web tilde community, with links to multiple tilde and SDF accounts, a blog, and even membership in the Cassette Tape Storage Council. The site reflects the hobbyist Unix shell community aesthetic, connecting visitors to a network of small public-access Linux servers and retro-web culture.
• tilde news [2026-07-07]
  Tilde News is a community link aggregator focused on retro hardware, UNIX systems, open-source software, and vintage computing topics, curated by contributors like sevan and lettuce. Stories cover everything from restoring Sun SPARCstations to running Linux on obsolete mobile phones, making it a rich resource for enthusiasts of classic and alternative computing.
• Time Travelling Birb [2026-07-07]
  Amaruuk's lovingly crafted archive of early web ephemera, featuring collections of blinkies, GIFs, and the nostalgic aesthetics of personal homepages from 1998 through the mid-2000s. The site includes galleries, shrines, a 'time machine' organized by year, and various quirky extra pages celebrating the look and feel of old-school web culture.
• Tips for Torrenters | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age [2026-07-07]
  One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age is a research blog by despens dedicated to digging through the archived GeoCities torrent, documenting and exploring the old web's cultural artifacts. This post offers practical Unix-based tips for downloading, decrunching, and self-hosting the massive GeoCities torrent archive, making it a useful technical resource for digital preservationists.
• Toca do Rio McCloud [2026-07-07]
  Rio McCloud's personal digital garden covers technology tutorials spanning Windows, Linux, Android, cybersecurity, retrocomputing, and embedded systems, alongside art, comics, and personal blogs. A proudly independent Neocities site, it serves as a haven from algorithm-driven platforms with a wide range of original content to explore.
• tomasino (dot) org [2026-07-07]
  James Tomasino's personal hub showcases a technologist and creative who is passionate about retro computing, the Fediverse, Gopher/Gemini protocols, and fiction writing. Notable projects include Cosmic Voyage, a collaborative sci-fi terminal universe, and Stitchy, a crochet pattern generator from images.
• Tvdog's Archive (Home Page) [2026-07-07]
  Tvdog's Archive is a dedicated resource for Tandy 1000-series computer enthusiasts, hosting files, FAQs, DOS Internet programs, and FTP archives for these classic machines. The site also features photo galleries of multiple Tandy 1000 models and curates links to major DOS software archives like Simtel, Garbo, and PC-Blue.
• ucanet - U Create A Net [2026-07-07]
  ucanet is a fascinating project that builds a separate web ecosystem specifically for retro computers, complete with its own alternative-root DNS server and a fresh namespace where users can register free domains. Visitors can find installation guides, browse over 500 registered domains in a retro-friendly site directory, and even download older browsers like Firefox 2 to access the network as it was meant to be experienced.
• VC&G | » Animated Christmas GIFs of Yore [2026-07-07]
  Vintage Computing and Gaming (VC&G) is Benj Edwards' long-running blog dedicated to classic computers, retro gaming, and computing history. This particular post showcases a delightful collection of animated Christmas GIFs rescued from the late-1990s web, including files once hosted on GeoCities, offering a nostalgic glimpse at early internet holiday culture.
• VETUSWARE.COM - the biggest free abandonware collection in the universe [2026-07-07]
  Vetusware.com bills itself as the biggest free abandonware collection in the universe, offering downloads of vintage software spanning DOS, early Windows, OS/2, drivers, DBMS tools, and office applications from the 1980s and 1990s. Built by Juliano Vetus since 2004, the site features thousands of titles organized by category, with popularity rankings, a most-wanted request system, and a community forum for retro computing enthusiasts.
• Vintage Computing and Gaming | The Retrogaming and Retrocomputing Blogazine [2026-07-07]
  Vintage Computing and Gaming is Benj Edwards' long-running blogazine celebrating the history of classic computers and video games from the 1960s through the 1990s, now marking its 20th anniversary online. Packed with interviews, articles, and historical commentary covering systems like the Atari, NES, TRS-80, ZX Spectrum, and early Macintosh, it stands as a rich archive for anyone passionate about retro tech history.
• Violet-99 [2026-07-07]
  Violet-99 is Swarit's personal archive dedicated to exploring and recreating the aesthetic of the old web, built entirely with handcrafted static HTML and CSS. Featuring a synthwave-styled terminal interface, a photo gallery, logs, and a guestbook, the site is a loving homage to early internet culture and design.
• ViperCard [2026-07-07]
  ViperCard is an open source recreation and reimagination of Apple's classic 1987 HyperCard application, rebuilt to run in modern browsers. Visitors can launch the app directly, play embedded games like Glider and Spaceman Gamma, browse scripting API documentation, and follow a crowdfunded roadmap for features like HC stack import and MIDI music creation.
• wass good [2026-07-07]
  YUDOSAI's sprawling personal site covers an eclectic mix of retro computing adventures, game music, anime, manga, and DIY web projects, with dedicated blog sections for each interest. Standout entries include PC-8001 tinkering, a RISC-V laptops list, a first Atari game writeup, and a music exhibit chronicling the creator's history with the Caustic DAW.
• Web Badges World | The ultimate archive of 80x15 pixel button art [2026-07-07]
  Web Badges World is an archive of nearly 4,000 classic 80x15 pixel buttons that once decorated websites across the early internet, complete with a history of how these tiny badges were used for webrings, directories, RSS feeds, and browser identification. Created by Arthur, the site lets visitors filter badges by category, file type, and animation, making it an invaluable preservation effort for anyone nostalgic about the visual culture of the early web.
• Welcome to AOLEmu [2026-07-07]
  AOLEmu is an open-source project that emulates the classic AOL client experience, complete with instant messaging, chatrooms, and email services built to replicate the look and feel of AOL v4.0. Built in C# with a nostalgic UI, it has even been featured on Netflix's HIGH SCORE documentary series covering gaming and internet history.
• welcome to my ~ page [2026-07-07]
  TheGiant's tilde.town homepage is a love letter to the old internet, covering BBS systems, telnet, MUDs, Usenet, Unix shell access, and hand-coded HTML in the spirit of dial-up era computing. The page doubles as a curated link collection pointing to active BBSes, MUD directories, and free Usenet servers for those who still embrace these retro communities.
• Welcome to Spode’s Abode! | Spode’s Abode [2026-07-07]
  Andrew Spode, a former UK technology journalist who tested components for publications like Computer Shopper and TrustedReviews, has revived his personal site to share knowledge about retro computing hardware and e-waste refurbishment. Visitors can find articles, a shop for refurbished components, and contributions to archival projects like TheRetroWeb and archive.org.
• Welcome to the Neon Systems [2026-07-07]
  Neongod's personal site covers retro computing topics including Commodore 64, Amiga, and classic Macintosh hardware, with content on restoration, preservation, and tracker music. Notable features include downloadable C64 assembly tools, a Lukhash tape project, and availability via the Gemini protocol for old-web enthusiasts.
• What happened? [2026-07-07]
  Machine Girl World is a nostalgic personal site by a creator channeling the chaotic energy of 1990s and early 2000s unsupervised internet browsing, complete with mood indicators, pixel dolls, and webring memberships. Visitors can explore sections like goodies, a diary, and favorites, all wrapped in a deliberately retro aesthetic that celebrates old-web culture.
• What's new? - Retro Gallery [2026-07-07]
  Retro Gallery is a dedicated archive preserving pixel art and graphics from classic platforms including Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amiga, and Atari, with thousands of images uploaded by a growing community. Visitors can browse a Hall of Fame, convert retro image formats directly online, and explore curated collections like the MSX Pixel Art Preservation project and coverdisk scans.
• Whatever Happened To. . . Webrings | Insufficient Scotty [2026-07-07]
  InsufficientScotty is JohnScott's pop-culture and tech nostalgia blog, featuring a 'Whatever Happened To' series that digs into forgotten corners of early internet history like webrings, GeoCities, and the quirks of web culture past. This particular post traces the origins of webrings from the author's own first HTML project in 1994, making it a personal and surprisingly detailed look at a once-ubiquitous web phenomenon.
• Wii Shop Channel [2026-07-07]
  A faithful web-based remake of the Nintendo Wii Shop Channel, recreating the iconic storefront's interface, music, and visual style in the browser. Fans of the original Wii era will recognize the distinctive keyboard layout, dot-matrix text fields, and looping background audio that made the original channel so memorable.
• Winbows XP [2026-07-07]
  Winbows XP is a creative Neocities personal site styled as a Windows XP desktop interface, complete with familiar UI elements like Start menu, My Documents, Paint, and Notepad reimagined as navigation. The site leans into 90s/early-2000s nostalgia with an aesthetic tribute to the classic operating system, offering a charming and interactive old-web experience.
• Windows 98 Icon Viewer [2026-07-07]
  Alex Meub's Windows 98 Icon Viewer is an interactive browser-based gallery showcasing the classic icon set from Microsoft's iconic 1998 operating system. Visitors can browse and download the original pixel-art icons including the Recycle Bin, My Computer, and Documents folders, making it a handy nostalgia resource for retro computing enthusiasts and designers.
• Windows Media Player Skins Archive [2026-07-07]
  A comprehensive archive of Windows Media Player skins, preserving hundreds of classic WMP themes ranging from official Xbox and game tie-in skins to fan-made designs from the early 2000s era. Each entry includes a preview image and a direct download link, with a bulk ZIP option for grabbing the entire collection at once.
• Windows Update Restored [2026-07-07]
  Update Windows 95, NT 4.0, 98, Me, 2000, and XP the old way!: Windows Update Restored brings back the classic Windows Update experience for legacy Microsoft operating systems including Windows 95, NT 4.0, 98, Me, 2000, and XP. Visitors can download Internet Explorer versions and service packs the old-fashioned way, making it a valuable resource for vintage Windows enthusiasts and retro PC hobbyists.
• WinWorld [2026-07-07]
  Paint Shop Pro 3.x: WinWorld is an online museum and archive dedicated to preserving abandonware software, and this page covers JASC Paint Shop Pro 3.x, the classic bitmap graphics editor first released in 1990. Visitors can download original releases of Paint Shop Pro 3.0 and 3.12, read release notes, view screenshots, and explore the software's history from its shareware origins to its Corel acquisition.
• XP NetCenter – The Center of Your Internet [2026-07-07]
  XP NetCenter is a lovingly crafted nostalgia trip recreating the feel of an early 2000s web portal, complete with a Winamp player, 88x31 buttons, ICQ status display, a read-only shoutbox, and downloads of classic software like mIRC and MSN Messenger. The site meticulously mimics the aesthetic of the dial-up era with green-on-black terminal styling, IE6 popups, webrings, and a sprawling changelog that documents every retro flourish added to the experience.
• Yay! You found that 90s site! [2026-07-07]
  A lovingly crafted tribute to the mid-1990s web aesthetic, complete with loud tile backgrounds, bold colors, a guestbook, and a MIDI file, built on Neocities as a modern recreation of old-school web design. Highlights include an Amiga 4000T 3D tech demo, a cyber cat hangout page, retro links to BBSes and Gopher sites, and membership in the Retronaut Webring.
• Zophar's Domain [2026-07-07]
  Zophar's Domain is one of the oldest and most comprehensive emulation resource sites on the web, offering downloads for emulators across dozens of classic platforms including NES, SNES, N64, Sega, and Commodore 64. Visitors can also find video game music files (NSF, PSF, SPC formats), ROM hacks, savestates, cheats, translations, and technical documents, making it an essential stop for retro gaming and emulation enthusiasts.