~ Early Web Links ~

A community-curated link directory originating from 4chan's /g/ board, collecting hundreds of notable and obscure websites spanning search engines, FTP crawlers, open directories, retro web tools, and internet oddities. With 764 links organized into categories, it serves as a living index of useful, weird, and hard-to-find corners of the internet.

Neowiki is a community-maintained wiki dedicated to helping Neocities users navigate the platform, covering topics like the Neocities CLI, supporter plans, site profile customization, and style guides. Built by Neocities users for Neocities users, it serves as a practical reference hub for anyone building or managing a site on the platform.

Euroseek.com bills itself as the first European web directory, organizing links to sites across every European country from Albania to Yugoslavia. Visitors can browse country-by-country listings covering travel, government, finance, and more, all focused on the European continent.

A comprehensive directory of search engines and web directories organized by European country, covering every nation from Albania to Vatican City. Running since 1996, this long-lived resource helps users find country-specific search tools and indexes across the entire European continent.

Ron Hale-Evans's personal bookmarks hotlist from May 2003, preserved as a sprawling snapshot of early-web browsing habits covering science fiction indexes, Linux resources, book finders, and general web utilities. With nearly 4,000 links organized into categories like Comp, Booksearch, and Misc, it offers a fascinating time-capsule view of what a well-read, technically-minded internet user kept bookmarked at the dawn of the modern web.

Robotstxt.org is the definitive reference for understanding web robots, crawlers, and spiders, covering everything from how to write a robots.txt file to blocking unwanted bots from your site. It includes a robots database, a robots.txt syntax checker, an IP lookup tool, and a comprehensive FAQ making it an essential stop for webmasters and developers.

Ripped is a community-curated guide to trusted sites and tools for ripping and archiving media, covering everything from CD audio ripping with EAC to manga, e-books, games, anime, and movies. It serves as a structured reference directory for private trackers, scene terminology, and platform-specific software across PC, Android, iOS, and consoles.

The official manual for Harlowe 3.3.8, the story format used with Twine 2 for creating interactive fiction, covering every macro, markup syntax, and coding feature in exhaustive detail. With hundreds of documented commands, changers, and variables organized across thousands of links, this reference is an indispensable guide for anyone building Twine-based games or stories.

Andy McFadden's comprehensive CD-Recordable FAQ is the definitive reference guide covering everything about CD-R and CD-RW technology, from basic concepts to advanced topics like packet writing, disc formats, and hardware troubleshooting. Originally developed for the comp.publish.cdrom Usenet newsgroups, this meticulously maintained document reached version 2.73 and is available in multiple languages including German, French, Russian, and more.

Old'aVista is a nostalgic search engine built specifically for finding old websites from classic hosting services like Geocities, Angelfire, Tripod, and AOL, complete with a retro AltaVista-inspired interface. It indexes a massive database of vintage web content and offers curated directories, top searches, and links to preservation resources like the Internet Archive.