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https://adrianroselli.com/2015/01/css-bookmarklets-for-testing-and-fixing.html
Adrian Roselli's technical blog post presents a collection of CSS bookmarklets for testing and fixing common web issues, including removing intrusive overlays, finding missing alt attributes, and restoring focus outlines. The post includes ready-to-use bookmarklets alongside instructions for building your own, making it a practical resource for front-end developers and accessibility professionals.
https://syslbnth.neocities.org/nexus
Phantom, known across platforms as radicalhelmet and qcom, has built a personal hub collecting years of videogame criticism and criticism for outlets like Unwinnable Magazine alongside hobbyist code with a particular love for assembly language. Visitors will find terminal games, Emacs configs, a Game Boy Camera gallery, and a ROMhacking project, all wrapped in an atmospheric old-web aesthetic.
https://wiki.preterhuman.net/FortuneCity
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 It serves as a historical reference entry covering FortuneCity's features, community structure, and international expansion, alongside related services like GeoCities and Angelfire.
https://epeus.blogspot.com/
Kevin Marks' long-running blog explores the social dynamics of web platforms like Twitter, Google+, and Buzz through thoughtful analytical essays on how design shapes human behavior online. Running since at least 2001, it covers topics like social media theory, open standards, Activity Streams, and the listening web with a distinctly tech-humanist perspective.
https://sippey.com/
Michael Sippey's long-running personal blog collects curated links and short commentary on politics, culture, technology, and literature, updated regularly with sharp editorial taste. A fixture of the thoughtful web, it reads like a well-edited reading list from someone who has been paying close attention to the internet since its early days.
https://eggfreckles.net/
Thomas Brand's Egg Freckles is a focused notes-style blog covering Apple hardware, software, and accessories with entries on MacBook Air, iPads, M2 displays, music ripping, and retro Mac topics. The site is a tidy, minimal log of Apple-centric observations and reviews that appeals to Mac enthusiasts and Apple history buffs alike.
https://freedns.afraid.org/
FreeDNS, created by Joshua Anderson, is a long-running free DNS hosting service offering dynamic DNS, static DNS, subdomain hosting, and domain management tools for hobbyists and developers alike. With support for IPv6, wildcard DNS, web forwarding, and thousands of shared domains, it has been a staple utility for anyone needing flexible DNS services since 2001.
https://realworldtech.com/overclocking-observations
Written by Dean Kent in 1997, this Real World Tech article chronicles the early days of CPU overclocking, tracing the community's evolution from Usenet skepticism to increasingly bold experiments pushing Pentium processors far beyond their rated speeds. It offers a fascinating firsthand perspective on how overclocking culture developed, complete with cautionary tales about destroyed processors and the gradual spread of technical knowledge.
https://imlexicon.com/home
ImLexicon is a personal homepage by a creator known as Lexicon, still in early development but already featuring old-web sensibilities like webrings and anti-Web3 sentiment. The site showcases stamps advocating for open web values and participates in the Hotline Webring, making it part of the indie web revival community.
https://blinkies.neocities.org/geoblinkies
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.