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https://wiki.preterhuman.net/FortuneCity
Part of the Higher Intellect Vintage Wiki, this page documents FortuneCity, the classic free web hosting platform that let users build homepages in themed virtual districts during the late 1990s. It serves as a historical reference entry covering FortuneCity's features, community structure, and international expansion, alongside related services like GeoCities and Angelfire.
https://speedguide.net/
SpeedGuide.net is a comprehensive broadband reference site packed with TCP/IP optimization tools, router databases, port references, and network security resources. Visitors can run speed tests, analyze their TCP settings, look up over 65,000 ports, and find tweaks for cable, DSL, wireless, and fiber connections.
https://owencompher.me/
Owen Compher's personal corner of the indie web, where this computer science and mathematics student showcases his self-built site with web dev projects, a curated links page, and a file server. The site leans into indieweb culture with webring participation, PGP keys, and a hand-crafted ethos that makes it a genuine artifact of the modern personal web revival.
https://poddys.com/
The Poddys Directory is a long-running web directory created in 1998, covering an enormous range of topics from jokes and UFOs to genealogy, anime, and cheap phone cards. Despite its dated appearance and some broken links, it remains a nostalgic snapshot of early web curation with a particularly large humor and funny pictures section.
https://dooberxx.neocities.org/
A minimal splash page welcoming visitors to a personal Neocities site called 'mess.' Almost no content is visible beyond an entry link, making it essentially an unfinished or under-construction personal homepage.
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.
https://xml.coverpages.org/rxpWindows19991018.html
The Cover Pages is a comprehensive reference archive for XML and SGML standards, and this page documents the release of the Win32/DOS version of RXP, a validating namespace-aware XML parser written in C by Richard Tobin. It includes the full man page documentation, usage examples, and download information for this early XML development tool from 1999.
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://paveldogreat.github.io/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation
Created by Pavel Dobryakov, this interactive WebGL fluid simulation runs directly in the browser and supports mobile devices, letting visitors play with mesmerizing fluid dynamics in real time. The project showcases advanced GPU-accelerated graphics programming using WebGL shaders to simulate realistic fluid behavior.
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.