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https://forum.melonland.net/
MelonLand Forum is a thriving online community run by Melonking.Net, dedicated to celebrating personal homepages, web crafting, and the indie/old-web spirit. With over 3,000 members and active boards covering hyperlinks, web design help, web projects, and digital art, it serves as a lively hub for netizens who build and cherish handcrafted websites.
https://kingdra.net/
Kingdra.net is a personal old-web style homepage packed with webrings, friend links, and curated personal site recommendations that refresh on each visit. It leans heavily into the interconnected community spirit of indie web culture, featuring the Bucket Webring, Sanrio Webring, and a collection of 88x31 buttons from fellow site owners.
https://windowsuser.neocities.org/
A quirky personal homepage centered around Windows operating systems, featuring a poll asking visitors which version of Windows they use and links to YouTube content and retro web experiences. The site has a classic early-web feel with its simple layout, visitor counter, and a wishlist of features like a chatbox and music player still in progress.
https://ultrasciencelabs.com/lab-notes/why-we-are-still-using-88x31-buttons
Brian at ultrasciencelabs digs deep into the history and cultural staying power of 88x31 buttons, tracing their origins from Netscape and early Geocities through to their modern revival on Neocities and the indie web. The article is well-researched, citing Wayback Machine snapshots, ad standards, and historical web screenshots to explain why these tiny collectible badges never really went away.
https://openrain502r.github.io/athe52.github.io
athe52's personal site is a curated link collection focused on retro computing, old-web nostalgia, and vintage software, featuring resources like Office 97 assistants, GeoCities-era GIFs, and early text-to-speech tools. The creator is also working on several original projects including lunarOS History and Project Fossil, with a clear love for preserving and exploring computing history.
http://mspowershell.blogspot.com/2007/12/script-to-extract-disk-space-usage.html
JB's PowerShell is a technical blog by Jakob Bindslet collecting practical PowerShell scripts for system administrators, including WMI queries for disk space monitoring across servers and clusters. Each post shares ready-to-use code snippets with real-world utility, making it a handy reference for Windows scripting tasks.
https://pudingoii.neocities.org/
Pudingoii's debut website is a lovingly handcrafted homage to the early 2000s web aesthetic, built by someone who taught themselves CSS from scratch to create it. Packed with blinkies, a guestbook, and old-web vibes, it's a charming example of the retro personal homepage revival.
http://web.archive.org/web/20130729231420id_/http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail470.html
This page from the Conversations Network hosts a recorded talk by Clay Shirky titled 'Ontology is Overrated,' captured at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in 2005. Shirky, a noted writer and consultant on decentralization and social software, delivers a 44-minute audio presentation exploring why rigid classification systems are being challenged by the social web.
https://blog.adrianistan.eu/teletexto-012
Adrianistán is the personal tech blog of Adrián Arroyo Calle, featuring a recurring 'Teletexto' link roundup series that curates interesting programming and technology articles. Each edition dives into topics like APL, Clojure, Prolog, game development, concurrency patterns, and digital policy, making it a rich resource for curious developers.
https://xml.com/pub/a/w3j/s1.people.html
A 1997 essay by David Siegel, self-proclaimed 'HTML Terrorist,' reflecting on how his design philosophy of mixing structure with presentation shaped and arguably damaged the early Web. Published on XML.com, the piece argues passionately for the proper separation of HTML, CSS, and XML while acknowledging the creative tensions that drove the Tag Wars era of web design.