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https://tilde.club/~4mvrs
Greg Sainsbury's minimal tilde.club page, where he reflects on finally figuring out how to edit it and pays homage to a terrible personal webpage he had in the late 1990s. The username '4mvrs' is a deliberate callback to his old qlink.queensu.ca address, giving the page a nostalgic nod to early web culture.
http://lynx.browser.org/
The official information page for Lynx, the venerable text-based web browser that runs on Unix, Windows, VMS, DOS, and OS/2. It provides version details, support contact information, and links to the latest stable and developmental releases of this landmark browser.
http://writemonkey.com/index.php
WriteMonkey is a free Windows writing application built around a distraction-free, zenware philosophy, stripping away the interface clutter to leave writers alone with their words. It supports full Markdown, plugins, a scratch pad, Pomodoro timer, and sentence highlighter, making it a surprisingly feature-rich tool beneath its minimalist exterior.
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://tilde-os.neocities.org/
Tilde-os is a personal homepage featuring a mix of personal content including a gallery, writings, blog, and notably a dedicated aquarium section that hints at fish-keeping as a central hobby. The site has a cozy old-web aesthetic and participates in webrings like Retronaut and Muoring.
https://delyo.be/blog
Delyo's blog covers digital freedom, open tools, counter-culture, and the indie web, with posts ranging from Cyrillic typography history to Linux font tricks and Fediverse explainers. Written in both English and French, it reflects a thoughtful commitment to open-source values and reclaiming the web from corporate platforms.
https://bkardell.com/blog/WhatsGood.html
Brian Kardell, Developer Advocate at Igalia and co-author of the Extensible Web Manifesto, writes here about web standards, browser features, and the processes behind web platform development. This post explores an often-overlooked question in developer advocacy: which web features have actually delivered on their promise, and what can satisfaction data teach us about prioritization?
https://msn.neocities.org/
MSN Forever is a nostalgic tribute to MSN Messenger and the classic MSN era of the early internet, celebrating the look and feel of a beloved piece of online history. The frames-based layout itself evokes the retro web aesthetic that fans of old-school Microsoft software will immediately recognize.
https://artlung.com/
Joe Crawford's long-running personal site from San Diego blends blogging, web development, interactive toys, art projects, and a massive archive of more than ten thousand URLs built over decades. A genuine old-web veteran who champions the open web and personal publishing, Joe documents his life, coding work, cosplay, bodysurfing, and creative experiments all in one sprawling digital home.
https://kjelsrud.dev/
Sindre, a 20-something software engineer known as 'Sid', built this personal site as a creative outlet for owning his own data, with a blog, logs, photo gallery, and guestbook. His interests span bouldering, One Piece anime, liquid DnB music, open source advocacy, and cairn building, making this a lively personal corner of the web.