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https://landchad.net/
LandChad.net is a practical tutorial hub aimed at guiding everyday people through self-hosting their own websites, email servers, chat servers, and other internet services from scratch. With step-by-step guides covering everything from domain registration and NginX setup to self-hosted alternatives like Nextcloud, Matrix, and PeerTube, it's a comprehensive resource for anyone wanting to escape corporate platforms.
https://thewildrose.org/fanlistings
Addicted is the official fanlisting for the concept of fanlistings themselves, listed at The Fanlistings Network under Computer Miscellany and Internet. With nearly 5,000 members worldwide, it celebrates the fanlisting community and invites anyone who loves the fanlisting phenomenon to join the roster.
http://morveen.altervista.org/harley
Maiden of Mischief is a fanlisting dedicated to Harley, a website (harleenquinn.altervista.org) listed at The Fanlistings Network, celebrating fans of that particular site. With 73 members from 2 countries, it serves as a small community hub for admirers of the Harley Quinn-themed web presence.
https://mattstein.com/
Matt Stein is a web designer and developer based in Bend, Oregon who writes about web development, self-hosting, software tools, and personal essays with a dry, self-aware humor. Posts range from technical topics like Eleventy builds, Laravel transports, and Coolify deployments to book reviews, life reflections, and stand-up comedy craft.
https://blog.yaxley.in/
Yaxley Peaks runs this personal tech blog covering Linux internals, Emacs Lisp, sysfs hacks, and quirky programming discoveries like strace printing an Arthur C. Clarke quote. The site also showcases small original projects including a VT browser for Emacs and a Polish notation calculator, all wrapped in a charming old-web aesthetic with webrings and retro buttons.
https://atariarchives.org/bcc1/showpage.php?page=4
Atari Archives hosts digitized pages from 'The Best of Creative Computing Volume 1' (1976), one of the earliest and most influential computing magazines. This particular page presents a fascinating early discussion of computer security, timesharing system intrusion, and the ethical and legal questions around what we would now call hacking.
https://henryleach.com/
Henry Leach's personal blog covers a mix of topics, with a notable lean toward technology posts about FreeBSD, self-hosted git servers, and networking alongside occasional music reflections and personal observations. The technical content, including guides on VNET jails, DHCP configuration, and Git server setup, gives the site a practical, hobbyist sysadmin flavor that makes it a useful resource for FreeBSD enthusiasts.
http://contemporary-home-computing.org/turing-complete-user
Turing Complete User is a long-form critical essay and open-access book by Olia Lialina arguing that the concept of 'the user' is being systematically erased from computing culture and interface design. Drawing on sources from John von Neumann to Don Norman and Facebook, it makes a passionate intellectual case for preserving user agency and visibility in an era of invisible, frictionless computing.
https://neonaut.neocities.org/
Neonaut is a charming old-web personal hub featuring an 88x31 button archive, a web directory, webrings, and a collection dubbed 'Ancient Artifacts of bygone eras.' The site leans heavily into retro internet aesthetics, complete with CRT prompts, Matrix codefall effects, and a Swatch Internet Time widget.
http://modemhelp.org/
ModemHelp.Org is a comprehensive reference site covering modem troubleshooting, initialization strings, drivers, and command sets for a wide range of modem manufacturers. Visitors can access a massive init string database, error code references for Windows, Cisco VPN, and Android, plus product reviews and guides on high-speed broadband alternatives like ISDN, ADSL, and cable modems.