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http://thewave.ws/
Website.ws is a domain registration and hosting service that offered lifetime internet addresses using the .ws (Western Samoa) top-level domain. The page captured here is a redirect shell with no real content, pointing visitors to the main website.ws landing page for domain management.
https://blog.geocities.institute/archives/498
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.
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
Tilman Hausherr's official page for Xenu's Link Sleuth, a free Windows utility that crawls websites and reports broken links across pages, images, frames, scripts, and stylesheets. The site includes a full FAQ, bug list, future feature roadmap, multilingual guides, and download links for this long-running and widely recommended web maintenance tool.
https://fincher.org/tips/Languages/csharp.shtml
A comprehensive tutorial site covering C# programming by example, walking through everything from Hello World basics to advanced topics like threads, XML/XSLT, generics, and new language features across versions 2.0 through 7.x. Part of a larger multi-language reference by fincher.org, it also covers Ruby, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PowerShell, and more, making it a handy quick-reference for developers picking up new languages.
https://valhut.neocities.org/station
Val_hut Central Station is the hub page for val_hut's Neocities site, styled as an ASCII-art train station where visitors can board webrings or depart to explore the wider web. The creative transit metaphor, hand-crafted ASCII terminal aesthetic, and curated bookmarks section make it a charming example of old-web personal site culture.
https://tommyp.org/blog/tales-from-a-solo-dev
Tommy Palmer, a London-based web developer, shares hard-won lessons from his time as the sole developer at CastRooms, a DJ video streaming startup. The post covers practical advice on shipping code fast, trusting your instincts, and surviving the isolation of solo development on complex browser-based audio and video projects.
https://caliban.org/ruby/rubyguide.shtml
Originally written by Ian Macdonald for internal use at Google, this guide covers Ruby coding style and best practices for system administration scripting. It offers detailed guidelines on code organization, exceptions, indentation, debugging, benchmarking, and unit testing, making it a practical reference for Ruby programmers seeking a consistent stylistic vocabulary.
https://tilde.club/~Smitheroons
Smitheroons' tilde.club page is a sparse personal homepage where the author shares a brief life update about transitioning into an SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) role and the imposter syndrome that comes with it. Part of the tilde.club community, this minimal page hints at future updates and participates in a link ring.
http://davesite.com/webstation/html
Dave's HTML Guide is a classic beginner-oriented HTML tutorial from the mid-1990s, offering interactive lessons that helped early web users learn to build their own pages. Though the main tutorial content is currently offline, the page preserves its vintage charm with shareable link buttons and a snippet of the original 1996 HTML code that the author credits with helping HTML go viral.
https://rubenerd.com/
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.