Retro Computing
195 sites
https://oocities.org/
OoCities.org is a living archive of the original GeoCities website, preserving thousands of personal pages from the 1990s and early 2000s before the platform was shut down in October 2009. Visitors can browse the full collection organized by the original GeoCities neighborhood system, making it an invaluable time capsule of early web culture and history.
https://tilde.town/~netscape_navigator
Netscape Navigator's tilde.town blog chronicles a hands-on enthusiasm for retro computing, covering everything from installing CF card SSDs on vintage Pentium III machines to tinkering with classic operating systems like Windows 3.1 and Haiku OS. Posts are pulled from a Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) feed, giving the site an offbeat decentralized-internet flavor alongside nature snapshots, gadget links, and old-school web aesthetics.
https://netizen.club/~maple
Maple 'Mavica' Syrup's cozy corner of the web, built and maintained on a Windows 98 Compaq Armada running RetroZilla, showcasing a genuine passion for vintage hardware and software. Visitors will find a growing collection of handcrafted Windows-style pixel art icons, personal updates on retro web development, and a warm old-web aesthetic that feels authentically late 90s.
https://atarimagazines.com/
The Classic Computer Magazine Archive preserves the full text of beloved early personal computing magazines including Antic, Creative Computing, Compute!, and many others spanning the 1970s through 1990s. Visitors can search over 10,000 articles covering Atari, Commodore, TRS-80, and other vintage platforms, making this an invaluable research archive for retro computing enthusiasts.
https://retromash.com/cool-links
Retromash is a UK-based retro and geek culture site, and this page is its curated links collection pointing visitors toward podcasts, blogs, and video channels covering 80s nostalgia, retro gaming, toys, and cult films. A labor of love for anyone deep in the retro/geeky internet scene, it showcases the community of sites and creators that inspired the Retromash project itself.
https://rubenerd.com/
Rubenerd is Ruben Schade's long-running personal blog spanning two decades of posts covering retro computing, BSD Unix, hardware tinkering, anime, coffee, and technology commentary from Sydney, Australia. With archives stretching back to 2004 and a rich tag cloud including retrocomputing, FreeBSD, and hardware, it's a treasure trove for anyone who loves old tech mixed with thoughtful writing.
https://scrollbars.matoseb.com/
Created by Sébastien Matos as an ECAL student project, this visual timeline traces the evolution of the scrollbar from Xerox Star in 1981 through Windows 10 in 2015, with screenshots of each OS interface. It is a concise and fascinating piece of UI history that shows how a seemingly mundane interface element transformed over four decades of computing.
http://bbsdocumentary.com/
The official site for 'BBS: The Documentary,' a 2005 film by Jason Scott chronicling the history of Bulletin Board Systems and the communities that formed around them. It includes trailers, reviews, a BBS software list, an event history timeline, and a BBS history library, making it an invaluable archive for anyone interested in pre-internet online culture.
http://bbslist.textfiles.com/
A massive historical archive of dial-up BBS phone numbers compiled from numerous sources, preserving a comprehensive record of Bulletin Board Systems from the pre-internet era. Maintained by Jason Scott of textfiles.com, the list includes FAQs, statistics, an introduction to BBS culture, and even a link to the documentary film about BBSes.
https://zophar.net/
Zophar's Domain is one of the oldest and most comprehensive emulation resource sites on the web, offering downloads for emulators across dozens of classic platforms including NES, SNES, N64, Sega, and Commodore 64. Visitors can also find video game music files (NSF, PSF, SPC formats), ROM hacks, savestates, cheats, translations, and technical documents, making it an essential stop for retro gaming and emulation enthusiasts.