Computers & Internet
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https://area-51.neocities.org/
A GeoCities-style neighborhood directory hosted on Neocities, recreating the classic Area 51 community hub complete with featured homesteaders, community links, and retro web aesthetics. It showcases member sites spanning geeky pop culture, text adventures, and personal journals in the spirit of 1990s web communities.
https://foldoc.org/
FOLDOC (Free On-line Dictionary of Computing) is a massive reference work maintained by Denis Howe since 1985, containing over 15,000 definitions covering everything from acronyms and jargon to programming languages, networking, and computing history. With its breadth spanning telecoms, mathematics, electronics, and even the occasional bit of 'art,' it remains one of the oldest and most comprehensive computing dictionaries on the open web.
https://cosmicqbit.dev/blog
CosmicQbit's personal tech blog covers cloud computing, Linux, web development, and digital privacy with posts ranging from Docker tutorials to WebRTC leak prevention. The archive spans several years of hands-on technical writing, making it a useful resource for developers and privacy-conscious users alike.
https://ascii.textfiles.com/
Jason Scott's long-running personal weblog covers digital history, archiving, BBS culture, vintage computing, and the preservation of internet history, drawing on his work with the Internet Archive and Archive Team. Known for projects like the BBS Documentary and GET LAMP, Scott writes with sharp wit about technology, culture, and the people who shaped the early internet.
https://chaox.ro/
Chaox is a small community built around the philosophy of a free, decentralized, and minimal web, proudly serving pages without JavaScript, tracking, or ads. Run by Ty3r0X and hosted on a self-managed VPS, the site offers services, a zine, and a webring for like-minded old-web enthusiasts.
https://randomcube.neocities.org/
Anomaly INC is a gif-heavy personal Neocities page with an epilepsy warning, suggesting a visually intense old-web aesthetic loaded with animated graphics. The site is essentially a landing or splash page with minimal navigable content visible, making it more of a stylized web presence than a deep content hub.
https://advelos.moe/
Advelos is a charming personal homepage by a creator called Silly, built as a cozy indie web retreat styled as a whimsical dessert shop with sections for shrines, a miniblog, creations, collections, and webrings. The site is a genuine love letter to the indie web movement, packed with handcrafted layouts, custom buttons, and a warm community-focused spirit.
https://lofihi.fi/local-html
A technical writeup introducing local.html, a browser-based PWA that performs social discovery by crawling the web for rel=friend link attributes and building a personal feed of friends' site updates. The project explores indie web concepts like decentralized social graphs, CORS constraints, and an alternative to Webmention, complete with a live demo and source code.
https://fructisfans.neocities.org/
Fructis Fans is a personal old-web style site offering retro web resources alongside personal sections like a guestbook and diary. The site participates in several webrings including Retronaut and Geekring, giving it a strong retro internet community feel.
http://html5accessibility.com/
Maintained by Steve Faulkner, HTML5 Accessibility tracks the current accessibility support status of HTML5 features across major browsers including Chrome, Edge, Firefox, IE, and Safari. It tests whether features are keyboard accessible, mapped to platform accessibility APIs, and usable by people relying on assistive technology without requiring ARIA workarounds.