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https://lai.nz/
Jasper Lai is a New Zealand-based software engineer and UX/UI designer who uses this personal site as a digital commonplace book and playground for experimenting with web technologies, typography, and ideas. The site features a blog, collections, and work portfolio, with a strong emphasis on hand-coded craftsmanship, accessibility, and playing with fonts.
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/freed/0607freed.html
A 1996 New York Times 'Internet Q&A' column by John C. Freed, answering reader questions about early web topics like creating a homepage on AOL or CompuServe and running Netscape offline. A fascinating time capsule of the nascent consumer internet era, offering step-by-step guidance for everyday users navigating online services for the first time.
https://lofihi.fi/local-html
A technical writeup introducing local.html, a browser-based PWA that performs social discovery by crawling the web for rel=friend link attributes and building a personal feed of friends' site updates. The project explores indie web concepts like decentralized social graphs, CORS constraints, and an alternative to Webmention, complete with a live demo and source code.
http://themostamazingwebsiteontheinternet.com/
Chris built this chaotic, caps-lock-heavy homepage as a class project for ISYS 202, complete with a gun preference form, a quirky questionnaire profile, and an enthusiastic dream of becoming a big internet-web man. It's a genuinely charming artifact of early web learning, full of misspellings, exclamation points, and a cameo from a wizard Tom Cruise.
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://vannania.neocities.org/links
Vannania's links page collects the web resources, tools, and credits behind their Neocities site, including sources for backgrounds, glitter text, cursors, and Winamp skin creation. It also features site buttons for link exchanges and listings for webrings, making it a handy snapshot of old-web creative tools in one place.
https://ty3r0x.chaox.ro/
Ty3r0X's Lair is the personal corner of a tech-savvy individual who goes by Ty3r0X, featuring badges and propaganda for Linux, Firefox, Neovim, and homebrew software culture. The site oozes old-web hacker aesthetics with GPG key links, anti-Chrome sentiment, and a collection of friend/affiliate buttons that signals a deeply embedded open-source community presence.
https://msn.neocities.org/
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.
https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=938854
Yue's masterlist is a curated collection of links for aspiring webmasters, covering everything from beginner Neocities guides and free HTML templates to old-web graphics archives and coding tools. It's a handy one-stop reference for anyone wanting to build or decorate a personal website in the old-web style.
https://unapothecary.neocities.org/
Alix's Neocities site is a lovingly crafted tribute to the early internet, serving as a personal hub for favorite websites, graphics, music playlists, and HTML/CSS practice. With a retro aesthetic, active webrings, and a curated links page, it embodies the spirit of the old web revival.