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https://grc.com/intro.htm
Gibson Research Corporation is Steve Gibson's home for internet security tools, utilities, and research, featuring well-known products like SpinRite, ShieldsUP!, DNS Benchmark, and Password Haystacks. Visitors will find a deep catalog of free and commercial security software, technical writeups, and decades of hard drive and network security expertise.
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 It serves as a historical reference entry covering FortuneCity's features, community structure, and international expansion, alongside related services like GeoCities and Angelfire.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://epeus.blogspot.com/
Kevin Marks' long-running blog explores the social dynamics of web platforms like Twitter, Google+, and Buzz through thoughtful analytical essays on how design shapes human behavior online. Running since at least 2001, it covers topics like social media theory, open standards, Activity Streams, and the listening web with a distinctly tech-humanist perspective.
http://asciiribbon.org/
The official home of the ASCII Ribbon Campaign, an advocacy movement urging internet users to avoid HTML email and proprietary file attachments in favor of plain text. The site explains the technical and practical reasons behind the campaign, offers multilingual resources, and provides badge graphics for supporters to display on their own sites.
https://yuros-nest.neocities.org/
YuRo's Nest is the personal corner of a programmer and game developer who shares creative projects, cool internet finds, and a blog dedicated to 'retro internet sim' games. The site reflects a personality shaped by cats, sci-fi, and D&D, with an open invitation to collaborate on web or Unity projects.
http://sketchpad.net/opentype-fonts.htm
Created by Mike Doughty, this detailed reference page explains the OpenType font format and its advantages for cross-platform compatibility between Macintosh and Windows. Part of a larger tutorials site covering Photoshop, Illustrator, and other design tools, it covers OpenType features like ligatures, swash characters, and expert sets with links to official Adobe and Microsoft specifications.
https://lucb1e.com/randomprojects/php/secrypt
SeCrypt is a browser-based encryption tool created by lucb1e that lets users encrypt files or messages with multiple passwords, where only one reveals the real data and others produce convincing fakes. Built as a response to compelled-password laws in countries like the UK, it offers a clever layer of plausible deniability for anyone concerned about forced decryption.
https://teethinvitro.neocities.org/webring/linuxring
LinuxRing (also called *nixRing) is a webring connecting personal websites whose owners use Linux, Unix-like, or other alternative operating systems such as Haiku or Plan9. It features a growing directory of member sites spanning FOSS advocacy, tech writing, personal blogs, and programming projects, with OS-specific icons like Tux to represent each member's system.
https://gifypet.neocities.org/
GifyPet is a free embeddable virtual pet widget generator for personal websites, letting visitors customize their own animated companion with different species, backgrounds, and color schemes. The tool features a belly and mood system, a slots minigame, and auto-friend feeding, making it a charming throwback to the era of interactive website widgets.
https://gligar.neocities.org/
A massive collection of web stamps curated by a user called Gligar, featuring hundreds of the small decorative images that were a staple of old-web personal pages. With 588 images and almost no text, the entire experience is a dense visual archive of stamp culture.