Computers & Internet
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http://listen.hatnote.com/
Hatnote Listen to Wikipedia is a real-time audio visualization that turns Wikipedia edits into music, with bells signaling additions and string plucks marking deletions. Built by Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi, it uses D3 and HowlerJS to transform the living pulse of Wikipedia's recent changes into a surprisingly meditative and beautiful soundscape.
https://snowfallgarden.lophius.xyz/
Snowfall Garden is a creative tool by lophius.xyz that lets you generate and customize animated snowflake effects for use on your own website. Visitors can browse snowflake designs shared by others or build their own, making it a handy little resource for old-web and personal page decorators.
https://telehack.com/
Telehack is a simulated recreation of the early internet and ARPANET, accessible via web browser, telnet, or SSH, letting users explore a nostalgic command-line environment with hundreds of vintage systems to interact with. It faithfully recreates the feel of old-school hacking culture and pre-web network exploration, making it a fascinating time capsule for retro computing enthusiasts.
https://distro.tube/
Derek Taylor (DT) runs DistroTube, a hub for GNU/Linux enthusiasts featuring videos, articles, and tutorials about free and open source software. Built entirely in Emacs using Org Mode, the site reflects DT's deep commitment to the Linux philosophy and serves as the official home of his popular YouTube and Odysee video channel.
https://www.edwinwenink.xyz/posts/47-tilde_server
Edwin Wenink walks readers through every step of setting up a tilde club server on Linux, from spinning up a cloud VM to configuring nginx, SSH access, and community tools. Written during the COVID-19 lockdown as a social coding experiment, the guide is detailed and conversational at over 2,400 words.
https://racc.at/
Racc.at is a personal homepage featuring a growing collection of 88x31 buttons from friends and fellow web creators, along with links to games, a blog, and forums. The site leans into classic old-web aesthetics with an emphasis on community connection through button exchanges and embeddable site badges.
https://troubleshooters.com/tfresh95/index.htm
Steve Litt's detailed 1996 guide walks through building and configuring a Windows 95 machine from scratch, covering everything from BIOS setup and DOS installation to drive compression and peripheral configuration. It's a step-by-step technical reference for anyone who preferred a clean Win95 install over a messy upgrade from older Windows versions.
https://xpace.nekoweb.org/webringpage.html
The Indiering is a webring created for webmasters who love old tech, physical media, vintage aesthetics, and the old web, uniting fans of 2000s internet culture under one community. The page includes join instructions, a widget code snippet, and a growing list of member sites spanning personal pages, music collections, art, and more.
https://kelp.lt/
Kelp's digital garden is a personal knowledge base covering vegetarian recipes, video game reviews, and technical documents, presented as a navigable file-tree interface. The recipe collection ranges from Tiramisu and Macarons to Shakshuka and Vegan Tacos, making it a genuinely useful cooking resource alongside its other eclectic content.
https://benisland.neocities.org/petpet
A browser-based petpet GIF generator that lets you animate any image with the classic internet "petpet" hand pat effect, with controls for size, speed, squish, and flip. Built by a Neocities creator, it supports mouse, touch, and keyboard input and can export the finished animated GIF directly in your browser.