Retro Computing
195 sites
https://kawaiiattic.arunyi.art/
Kawaii Attic, created by Arunyi, is a lovingly curated archive of cute websites from the early 2000s, celebrating the golden age of kawaii internet culture with pixel art, adoptions, dollz, sozai, and more. Visitors can browse hundreds of linked sites organized into categories like personal pages, fanlistings, cliques, webrings, and sozai resources, making it a treasure trove for anyone nostalgic for the old web's charming aesthetic.
https://cucug.org/amiga
The Amiga Web Directory was operated by the Champaign-Urbana Computer Users Group (CUCUG) from 1994 to 2000, serving as one of the most comprehensive link collections for Amiga computer resources on the web. Now retired, this archived version still points to surviving Amiga communities, news archives, file repositories like Aminet, and other resources for fans of the classic Commodore platform.
https://vintagecomputing.com/
Vintage Computing and Gaming is Benj Edwards' long-running blogazine celebrating the history of classic computers and video games from the 1960s through the 1990s, now marking its 20th anniversary online. Packed with interviews, articles, and historical commentary covering systems like the Atari, NES, TRS-80, ZX Spectrum, and early Macintosh, it stands as a rich archive for anyone passionate about retro tech history.
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.
https://bbst.neocities.org/
The Bulletin Board Systems Toolbox is a curated collection of BBS-related software packages, tools, and resources for Linux console users who want to connect to and run classic bulletin board systems. Maintained by a hobbyist who goes deep on the subject, the site offers downloadable terminal utilities like Qodem, ANSI art viewers, offline mail readers, and a personal top-100 retro games list spanning ZX Spectrum, Amiga, and DOS.
https://wezm.net/v2/posts/2025/website-fit-for-1999
Wesley Moore documents his journey building a retro-styled personal website written in HTML4 and served over plain HTTP, designed to work on vintage browsers like IE 4 on Mac OS 8.1. The post covers experimenting with hosting on a RISC-V ESP32-C3 microcontroller using bare-metal Rust before settling on a more practical home server setup, making it a fascinating read for anyone interested in old-web aesthetics and modern tinkering.
https://win98icons.alexmeub.com/
Alex Meub's Windows 98 Icon Viewer is an interactive browser-based gallery showcasing the classic icon set from Microsoft's iconic 1998 operating system. Visitors can browse and download the original pixel-art icons including the Recycle Bin, My Computer, and Documents folders, making it a handy nostalgia resource for retro computing enthusiasts and designers.
https://cyberkutak.neocities.org/
CyberKutak is a Bosnian/Croatian retro-styled personal portal celebrating the nostalgic aesthetics of 1990s and 2000s web design, packed with humor sections including jokes about Balkans, blondes, animals, cars, Yugo, and politics. Created by a geekring member, the site also features funny pictures slideshows, wallpapers, fractals, and a recipes section, all wrapped in an old-school internet vibe.
https://blockpoint.nandraid.moe/
NANDRAID2 is the personal homepage of 'raid', a hobbyist based in Fort Worth who hosts their site on a credit-card-sized computer connected via Ethernet. The site features a bright new layout with webrings, a project page, and a blog, giving it a classic old-web personal homepage feel with a hardware-tinkering twist.
https://tilde.club/~Linkletter
Ian Linkletter's tilde.club personal page greets visitors with a retro-style 'ACTIVATE FRAMES PLEASE!' prompt, evoking the classic era of mid-90s web design and frame-based layouts. Hosted on the collaborative Unix system tilde.club, this site is a charming artifact of old-web culture with minimal but nostalgic content.