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http://brainjar.com/dhtml/ouija
BrainJar.com hosts an interactive DHTML Ouija board that responds to mouse movements, letting visitors ask questions and watch the pointer glide to spell out answers. It showcases a clever JavaScript/DHTML trick from the late 1990s, making it a neat example of early dynamic web interactivity.
https://tilde.town/~cmr
A minimalist tilde.town user page for 'cmr' rendered entirely in ASCII art, showcasing the creative text-based aesthetic of the tilde.town public Unix community. The page features elaborate ASCII illustrations including landscapes and structures, embodying the collaborative, terminal-native spirit of tilde culture.
https://articexploit.xyz/
Artic, a 24-year-old Italian tech enthusiast, has built this personal corner of the web to share his deep interests in Linux, self-hosting, privacy, open-source software, electronics, and hacking. The site has a cozy old-web aesthetic complete with pixel art backgrounds, a guestbook, webrings, and a changelog that signals active upkeep.
https://lynn.ru/examples/svg/en.html
Alexey Ten shares a clever SVG graceful degradation technique that lets modern browsers display SVG images while older browsers automatically fall back to raster PNG versions using a single block of markup. The article is concise but technically illuminating, walking through the HTML parsing quirk that makes this cross-browser trick possible.
https://rentry.co/grime
A curated personal reference list of Carrd templates, Tumblr/Neocities graphics sources, and web tools organized for easy access by the creator. Packed with links to pixel art resources, GIF collections, dividers, web graphics, and utility tools like color blenders and image resizers, it serves as a handy bookmark dump for old-web aesthetic site building.
http://toastytech.com/index.html
Nathan Lineback's long-running tech page is best known for its comprehensive GUI Gallery, tracing the history and evolution of graphical user interfaces across decades of operating systems. The site also features sharp anti-Internet-Explorer commentary, Windows utility downloads, and a collection of classic DOOM levels and screenshots.
https://poble.cl/
Poble's Purple Palace is a vibrant personal site built by a creator who goes by Poble, featuring sections about their personality, interests, and life in a distinctly purple aesthetic. The site is notable for its anti-AI stance, responsive design tested across unusual devices like Windows Phones and BlackBerries, and its indie web spirit complete with webrings, button links, and a handcrafted Neocities-era sensibility.
http://virtualbsd.info/
VirtualBSD 9.0 is a project offering a desktop-ready FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE pre-configured with the XFCE desktop environment and distributed as a VMware/VirtualBox appliance, making FreeBSD accessible to newcomers and returning users alike. The site includes download links, screenshots, how-to guides, and a curated list of bundled applications like Firefox, LibreOffice, GIMP, and VLC for an out-of-the-box experience.
https://nshjck.github.io/
Jack's personal corner of the internet celebrates the old-web spirit, with a focus on webrings, handcrafted pages, and reclaiming the web from corporate monotony. The site is still under active construction and features fun touches like rain effects and cursor animations alongside a guestbook and links collection.
https://wake.st/
Liaizon Wakest's personal homepage is a sparse but community-connected node on the Merveilles webring, with a dedicated subpage cataloging members who created 88x31px banners for their sites. The page points visitors toward the Fediverse and a /now page, reflecting an indie web ethos centered on small, handcrafted online spaces.