Retro Computing
195 sites
https://tilde.town/~lucidiot
Lucidiot's personal tilde.town page is a classic old-web haven packed with nostalgic web buttons, Netscape-era logos, anti-NFT badges, and links to quirky projects like a virtual plant and transport accident RSS feeds. The site radiates vintage internet enthusiasm with references to Windows XP, MSN Messenger via Escargot, and a handcrafted collection of ~town logos released under WTFPL.
https://tilde.club/~beckstrom
Chris Beckstrom's tilde.club homepage embraces the old-web aesthetic on purpose, featuring a geek code block, animated GIFs, and logged entries about SSH tricks, sshfs mounting, and Unix tinkering. A classic shared Unix server community page from an elder millennial who has been online since 1996, blending nostalgia with genuine command-line enthusiasm.
https://tilde.town/~thegiant
TheGiant's tilde.town homepage is a love letter to the old internet, covering BBS systems, telnet, MUDs, Usenet, Unix shell access, and hand-coded HTML in the spirit of dial-up era computing. The page doubles as a curated link collection pointing to active BBSes, MUD directories, and free Usenet servers for those who still embrace these retro communities.
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.
https://bunkerofdoom.com/
Bunker of DOOM is a sprawling hobbyist resource dedicated to retro-tech enthusiasts and hardware hackers, packed with vacuum tube manuals, laser experiments, nuclear radiation topics, and vintage electronics documentation. Created by Konrad H. Johnson and a small team, the site offers free access to rare technical references including RCA and Sylvania tube manuals, schematics, and hands-on project write-ups from the world of experimental electronics.
https://giraffesite.neocities.org/homepage
Giraffe's personal homepage is a nostalgic old-web style site featuring a Sonic CD background track, a virtual Tamagotchi pet, webrings, and a guestbook. The site leans into classic early-internet aesthetics with blinkies, buttons, and a maintained-for-historical-purposes note pointing visitors to the creator's newer home.
https://nostalgiaair.org/
Nostalgia Air is a comprehensive online archive of free schematics, service manuals, and technical references for antique and vintage radios, covering models from the 1920s through the 1960s. Visitors can access scanned Beitman manuals, RCA Red Books, Zenith service guides, tube cross-reference data, and more, all organized by manufacturer and model.
https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/ibmpc-win
James Friend's PCE.js project brings vintage computing history to life by running an emulated 286 IBM PC/XT with Windows 3.0 directly in your browser, no installation required. Built as a port of Hampa Hug's PCE emulator, the project also includes demos of classic Mac Plus environments and iconic games like Wolf3D, Civilization, and Monkey Island.
https://cpushack.com/
The CPU Shack is a remarkable online museum cataloging over 20,000 processors from 150+ manufacturers, spanning Intel, AMD, Cyrix, Soviet chips, and many obscure historical CPUs. Visitors can explore a "CPU of the Day" feature, EPROM galleries, detailed reference guides, and even purchase reproduction test boards for vintage processor families.
http://iwarg.ddns.net/phoenix/index.php
Phoenix, run by Wildman Productions, is a revival service that brings back functional AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN, and ICQ servers so users can chat like it's 1999 using the original client software. The project is a labor of love dedicated to preserving the experience of 1990s social networking, complete with downloads, compatibility guides, and active user counts showing real people connecting through these nostalgic platforms.