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https://rileyland.nekoweb.org/
Rileyland is a personal creative homepage on Nekoweb featuring animated GIFs and a handcrafted old-web aesthetic, complete with flashing visuals and a custom layout optimized for desktop resolutions. The site is a landing page inviting visitors into a quirky personal web space with a dedicated links page.
https://tilde.club/~gasconheart
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.
https://bkardell.com/blog/WhatsGood.html
Brian Kardell, Developer Advocate at Igalia and co-author of the Extensible Web Manifesto, writes here about web standards, browser features, and the processes behind web platform development. This post explores an often-overlooked question in developer advocacy: which web features have actually delivered on their promise, and what can satisfaction data teach us about prioritization?
https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/ibmpc-win
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.
https://blog.geocities.institute/archives/tag/meta
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.
https://ditaa.sourceforge.net/
Ditaa is a Java command-line utility created by Stathis Sideris that converts ASCII art diagrams into proper bitmap graphics, turning crude text-based drawings into clean, readable images. The site documents the tool's syntax, usage options including an HTML mode, and provides downloads, making it a handy reference for developers who want to embed diagrams in plain-text documents or legacy FAQs.
https://mzll.it/
Luigi's personal blog, written in both English and Italian, covers digital productivity, technology, the internet, travel, and books with a casual, reflective tone. The site features a clean Hugo-powered design with unique features like an 'On This Day' archive and a shuffle post option, making it a pleasant place to wander through his thoughts.
https://home.bway.net/ebalasba/bookmarks
A personal bookmarks collection exported in 2004, organizing hundreds of saved links across categories like Computers, Software, New York, Arts & Entertainment, and Sports. The sheer breadth of over 1,500 cataloged links across 15 sections makes it a fascinating snapshot of early-2000s web browsing habits.
https://eugene-andrienko.com/
Eugene Andrienko's personal tech blog covers FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Linux topics with detailed how-to guides on everything from configuring X11 to installing open-source firmware on ThinkPads. The site also features photography collections and occasional bicycle content, but the dominant focus is clearly Unix-like operating systems and open-source software.
https://tilde.club/~ford
Paul Ford's home on tilde.club, the shared Unix server community he accidentally founded, featuring his web journal, letters to the mailing list, and reflections on the tildeverse movement. It chronicles the origin story of tilde.club and the philosophy behind collaborative multi-user Unix spaces as a throwback to early internet culture.