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https://wisecat.com/pages/search-engines.htm
WiseCat's Top 50 Search Engines is a curated directory listing and describing the most popular search engines of the early web era, including Google, Ask Jeeves, Lycos, and dozens more with brief explanations of each. Part of the larger WiseCat portal, this page also features a multi-search tool and links to UK-specific search resources, making it a handy one-stop reference for web navigation.
https://creamsan.neocities.org/
Creamsan's personal page serves as a hub for their AI chatbot creations, featuring a bots list with recommendations for running them on GPT-4 and Claude models. The site is part of a Chatbots Webring and links out to Characterhub and Rentry, suggesting an active presence in the AI character and roleplay bot community.
http://pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html
A comprehensive Linux command line reference packed with practical, copy-paste-ready examples covering everything from file searching and text manipulation to networking, disk management, and process control. Available in multiple languages and PDF format, this cheat sheet by pixelbeat.org is an invaluable quick-reference for both beginners and seasoned Linux users.
http://ipodlinux.org/
The iPodLinux Project is an open source effort to port a customized uClinux kernel onto Apple iPods, complete with a custom interface called podzilla and additional modules that extend far beyond Apple's stock firmware. Visitors can find installation guides, troubleshooting docs, a project status tracker, and a full list of supported iPod generations, making it an essential hub for anyone wanting to run Linux on their device.
https://textile-lang.com/
The official documentation site for Textile Markup Language, a lightweight text formatting syntax used to generate valid HTML for blogs and content management systems since 2002. Visitors will find comprehensive reference material covering block modifiers, phrase modifiers, tables, links, images, typography, and CSS attributes, complete with live interactive examples.
http://web.textfiles.com/
Jason Scott's web.textfiles.com is a sprawling archive of historical text files covering hacking, phreaking, e-zines, humor, virus research, and underground computing culture from the BBS era and beyond. It's an essential digital preservation project cataloging thousands of documents that capture the raw, unfiltered voice of early internet and hacker subcultures.
http://backtrack-linux.org/
BackTrack Linux was a pioneering penetration testing distribution active from 2006 to 2013, born from the merger of Auditor Security Collection and Whax. This archive page chronicles the project's version history and officially redirects visitors to its successor, Kali Linux, maintained by OffSec Services.
https://gcbbs.net/
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.
https://v0idspace.nekoweb.org/
V0id's personal corner of the web is a lovingly crafted old-web tribute packed with curated links, retro computing nostalgia resources, and a gallery of original art. The site doubles as a hub for old-web exploration, featuring search engines, nostalgic tools, webrings, and a growing collection of pages dedicated to cats, aquariums, and Windows 98 homages.
https://mail.jjakke.com/
Jake runs his own personal email server on a budget VPS and uses this page to explain why he won't be offering accounts to anyone else, with candid commentary on privacy, law enforcement subpoenas, and the limitations of cloud hosting. The page is a refreshingly honest and humorous look at self-hosted email infrastructure, touching on rDNS, VPS trade-offs, and the surveillance risks of third-party hosting.