~ Early Web Links ~

Kait's minimal personal homepage doubles as a contact directory, listing every possible way to reach them across XMPP, IRC, Fediverse, Gopher, Tor, Gemini, Signal, and more. The site's tongue-in-cheek humor and shoutout to Plan 9 from Bell Labs signals a deeply technical, old-internet-savvy personality.

Cybrkyd is a personal tech blog covering Linux tips, self-hosted tools, privacy-focused software, and everyday computing life. Posts range from practical how-tos on Tor Browser cursor themes and Git workflows to commentary on ISP censorship and open-source alternatives to mainstream apps.

Coffeeknife's personal site is styled as a Linux terminal prompt, reflecting a clear love of tech and open-source culture. The site covers technology, media, crafts, and a blog, but the dominant aesthetic and branding lean heavily into Linux and command-line culture.

Tilde.town is a shared Linux server community of around 3000 users who collaborate to make art, socialize, and learn together, founded in 2014 by ~vilmibm. Visitors can explore user-made projects like interactive blackout art, mosaic tetris, and HTML graffiti, or apply to join this quirky digital neighborhood.

The Crypt is a personal Neocities page with a strong focus on Linux, privacy advocacy, and the cyberpunk philosophy, featuring guides on why privacy matters, FOSS alternatives, and critiques of platforms like Facebook. The site also links out to anime, manga, and gaming interests, but its most substantive original content centers on open-source software and digital freedom.

A curated link directory of tildeverse communities, tools, and projects, collected from tildeverse.org by the user extratone on tilde.town. It spans member servers, IRC networks, git repositories, mailing lists, a radio station, and even a Minecraft server, offering a thorough map of the shared Unix-based public-access tilde community.

Mike 'deepend' is the operator of tilde.club and thunix.net, sharing his work running Linux-based shell communities, IRC networks, and hand-rolled PHP projects for the tildeverse. A no-frills, retro-web personal page that doubles as a hub for his open-source infrastructure work, including a banner exchange, wiki, and the NewNet IRC network.

Chötrin's self-hosted wiki is a digital garden of personal notes published with vimwiki and served from a Raspberry Pi inside a hexagonal end table, covering programming languages like 6502 assembly, Ada, and Zig alongside operating systems such as OpenBSD, Plan 9, and Haiku. The site also branches into NES gaming, watercolor art, a homebrew NES game project, bicycling, and a curated collection of readings and recommendations that reflects a thoughtful, minimalist computing philosophy.

SDF Public Access UNIX System, established in 1987, offers free shell accounts and a community platform built around UNIX, the Fediverse, and vintage computing systems. Members can access services including Gopher, IRC, Git, Mastodon, Minecraft, Telnet, and even dialup, making it a remarkable living piece of internet history.

The official reference manual for mdoc, the semantic markup language used to write Unix manual pages, hosted on the mandoc.bsd.lv project site. Written by Kristaps Dzonsons, this comprehensive document covers mdoc syntax, macro overview, language structure, and compatibility with groff and other implementations.