Retro Computing
195 sites
https://openrain502r.github.io/athe52.github.io
athe52's personal site is a curated link collection focused on retro computing, old-web nostalgia, and vintage software, featuring resources like Office 97 assistants, GeoCities-era GIFs, and early text-to-speech tools. The creator is also working on several original projects including lunarOS History and Project Fossil, with a clear love for preserving and exploring computing history.
https://tilde.club/~a13x
A sparse tilde.club personal page belonging to a13x, featuring a note about writing HTML on a Miyoo Mini+ handheld terminal and a small collection of random desk items. The Miyoo Mini+ focus and tilde.club setting give it a retro/hobbyist computing flavor, linking to a webring for fellow tilde enthusiasts.
https://jcs.org/
Joshua Stein's personal tech blog is a deep dive into retro computing projects, with a strong focus on vintage Macs, classic system software, and hardware tinkering like fitting an M4 Mac Mini inside an iMac G4. He also develops and releases his own retro software including a classic Mac IRC client and BlueSCSI utilities, making this a genuinely creative corner of the old-school Mac enthusiast world.
https://omegalogic.neocities.org/
OMEGALOGIC is a nostalgic Neocities site dedicated to memoirs and musings about the early web, featuring sections on retro computing, vintage browsers like Netscape, beige box computers, and the culture of 1990s internet life. The creator, Omega, has built a charmingly period-accurate page complete with ASCII art, a guestbook, and a retro gaming top-10 list that evokes the feeling of browsing the web in 1997.
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://textfiles.vistech.net/
Textfiles.com is a massive archive dedicated to preserving the text files, culture, and history of the mid-1980s BBS scene, curated by Jason Scott over nearly 25 years. Visitors can explore ASCII art, BBS documentation, historical timelines, and thousands of files that capture the early digital underground in its raw, unfiltered form.
https://riomc.cloud/
Rio McCloud's personal digital garden covers technology tutorials spanning Windows, Linux, Android, cybersecurity, retrocomputing, and embedded systems, alongside art, comics, and personal blogs. A proudly independent Neocities site, it serves as a haven from algorithm-driven platforms with a wide range of original content to explore.
https://sosumi.xyz/computering
Computering is a webring connecting websites whose creators are interested in, write about, or style their pages after older computers and operating systems like Windows 98, MacOS System 7, and Windows XP. With just 5 members so far, it's a small but charming community celebrating the aesthetics and nostalgia of vintage OS design on the modern web.
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://mistigris.org/
Mistigris is a long-running computer arts group founded in 1994 that releases regular 'artpacks' featuring ANSI art, ASCII art, and other digital works rooted in the BBS and demoscene tradition. With monthly releases dating back decades, a 30th anniversary collection, and connections to tools like PabloDraw and the 16colo.rs gallery, this is a living hub for oldschool computer art culture.