~ Early Web Links ~

A tilde.club user page for mlot, featuring links to various protocols including Gemini, Gopher, and finger, along with personal repos on Tildeforge and a Smolnet Portal for exploring the small web. The page reflects the spirit of the indie/smol web community, with connections to emergency info projects and the tilde community ecosystem.

Ryan Oles runs electro.pizza, a personal tech blog covering self-hosting projects, software-defined radio experiments, and single-board computer builds like the Odroid XU4 and Pocket CHIP. The writing section features hands-on hardware and Linux tinkering write-ups, while a reading log tracks an impressively deep backlog of over 125 books.

Megalokafes is a personal neocities page from a self-described chronic distro hopper exploring Chimera Linux, the Gemini protocol, and alternative internet clients like Bombadillo. The site also features pointed commentary on LLMs and big tech, plus links to other indie web communities and a no-AI webring.

Custom Desktop Solutions is a consulting service page advocating for Free and Open Source Software, offering help with Linux desktop setup, computer literacy, hardware configuration, and small office/home office solutions. The site highlights practical services like extending the life of older PCs by converting them to Linux and helping clients establish an internet presence.

Gabriel Guzman's beginner-friendly blog walks readers through the Unix/Linux command line with approachable, conversational tutorials covering man pages, file searching, shell usage, and basic commands. Topics like ls, find, bash, and directory navigation are explained with humor and clarity, making the terminal feel welcoming to newcomers.

Thedaemon's personal space is a minimalist site built around 9front and FreeBSD, featuring artwork scribbles, a mysterious 'void' section, articles, and a log. The site proudly runs on its own 9front server and participates in the XXIIVV and Hacker webrings, giving it a strong hacker-culture aesthetic.

The official FreeBSD Handbook is a comprehensive, multi-part reference guide covering everything from installation and basic system administration to networking, security, and the ports system. A true labor of love maintained by the FreeBSD community since 1994, it serves as the definitive manual for both new users and experienced sysadmins working with this Unix-like operating system.

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.

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.

Sarmonsiill's personal tilde page on tilde.guru, a tildeverse community they founded to explore FreeBSD and contribute to the shared unix hosting scene. The site reflects decades of experience with *nix systems, BSD variants, and programming, with links to a blog, a brief log, and a static blog tool called 'ago'.