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http://textfiles.com/index.html
Textfiles.com, maintained by Jason Scott, is a massive archive preserving thousands of ASCII text files from the mid-1980s BBS era, capturing the raw digital culture of early online communities. The site spans decades of computing history with companion projects covering BBS history, ASCII art scenes, documentary footage, and more, making it an indispensable time capsule of pre-web internet culture.
https://wilnil.gay/
Willard's personal homepage showcases a self-described DevOps goblin and computer engineer with 10+ years of Linux and homelabbing experience, covering topics like OpenGL, computer vision, embedded hacking, and Kubernetes. The site has a playful, retro-web personality with humorous fake download links, terminal commands for oh-my-zsh and AUR helpers, and links to various projects at RIT.
https://yoohoosearch.neocities.org/
Yoohoo is a search engine and directory built specifically for exploring Neocities websites, offering curated sections like Best Of, Recommends, and a NeoCade. It serves as a hub for discovering the old-web revival community, complete with a guestbook, archives, and a dedicated Neocities directory.
https://chotrin.org/
Chötrin's self-hosted wiki is a digital garden of personal notes published with vimwiki and served from a Raspberry Pi inside a hexagonal end table, covering programming languages like 6502 assembly, Ada, and Zig alongside operating systems such as OpenBSD, Plan 9, and Haiku. The site also branches into NES gaming, watercolor art, a homebrew NES game project, bicycling, and a curated collection of readings and recommendations that reflects a thoughtful, minimalist computing philosophy.
https://pleac.sourceforge.net/
PLEAC (Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook) is a collaborative reference project that reimplements the classic Perl Cookbook's solutions across multiple programming languages including Python, Ruby, OCaml, Groovy, and Guile. It serves as a side-by-side comparison tool for developers wanting to see how common programming problems are solved in different languages, making it invaluable for polyglot programmers and language learners.
https://tilde.club/~mlot
A tilde.club user page for mlot, featuring links to various protocols including Gemini, Gopher, and finger, along with personal repos on Tildeforge and a Smolnet Portal for exploring the small web. The page reflects the spirit of the indie/smol web community, with connections to emergency info projects and the tilde community ecosystem.
https://alt-webring.com/?siteid=usvfincher
A lovingly reconstructed archive of the former alt-webring service, which ran from 2003 to 2015, rebuilt using Wayback Machine data to restore links to hundreds of old independent websites. With 434 former rings, over 4,000 former sites, and roughly 3,456 still-clickable links, it offers a genuine portal back to the handcrafted, passion-driven web of the early 2000s.
https://gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/x56.html
A chapter from the GNU Privacy Handbook covering the essentials of exchanging public keys using GnuPG, including exporting, importing, and validating keys via command-line tools. The guide walks through practical examples with real GPG commands, making it a valuable reference for anyone learning to use public-key cryptography with GnuPG.
https://im.youronly.one/techmagus
Techmagus is Yohan Yukiya Sese-Cuneta's science and technology blog covering topics like the Fediverse, social media standards, markup languages, and web-related guides. Posts range from practical how-tos on platforms like Threads.net to explorations of federated social networking history, making it a thoughtful resource for tech-curious readers.
https://tilde.town/~thegiant
TheGiant's tilde.town homepage is a love letter to the old internet, covering BBS systems, telnet, MUDs, Usenet, Unix shell access, and hand-coded HTML in the spirit of dial-up era computing. The page doubles as a curated link collection pointing to active BBSes, MUD directories, and free Usenet servers for those who still embrace these retro communities.