Retro Computing
195 sites
https://gcbbs.net/
Ground Control is a personal site dedicated to BBS (Bulletin Board System) culture, featuring guides on how to access BBSLink and DoorParty door game score tracking. The site has an old-web aesthetic with hand-coded pages and participates in multiple retro-themed webrings including the Hotline webring, retronaut webring, and geekring.
https://whoishohokam.com/
Hohokam's personal site is a self-described 'high-tech mid-life crisis' packed with hands-on projects spanning retro 8-bit computers, hacked consoles, 3D printing, home lab networking, and Raspberry Pi tinkering. Alongside the tech projects, the site features record collecting, hi-fi audio upgrades, and a curated collection of Portland street art, making it a genuinely eclectic Web 1.0-style corner of the internet.
https://fogcam.org/
FogCam is the world's oldest continuously operating webcam, streaming live views of San Francisco State University since 1994 as a student project in the Department of Instructional Technologies. Created by Jeff Schwartz and Dan Wong, this piece of living internet history has been featured by the NY Times and CNN and holds a place on Wikipedia's list of the oldest websites still online.
https://grizz.atwebpages.com/
Grizz's World is a charmingly retro personal homepage from Iowa packed with ASCII art, computer logs, recipes, and musings from a self-described computer nut who references Alf, Growing Pains, and an uncertain enthusiasm for Star Trek: The Next Generation. The site features original BASIC software available via FTP, a guestbook, webrings, and a scattershot mix of old-web personality that makes it a genuine time capsule.
https://that90ssite.neocities.org/
A lovingly crafted tribute to the mid-1990s web aesthetic, complete with loud tile backgrounds, bold colors, a guestbook, and a MIDI file, built on Neocities as a modern recreation of old-school web design. Highlights include an Amiga 4000T 3D tech demo, a cyber cat hangout page, retro links to BBSes and Gopher sites, and membership in the Retronaut Webring.
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.
http://timeline.textfiles.com/
A comprehensive chronological timeline of Bulletin Board System history, cataloging 261 events from 1874 through 2002, created as research support for a BBS documentary in production. Built by the team behind TEXTFILES.COM, it invites community contributions and corrections to fill in the gaps of this landmark era in pre-internet online culture.
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://holenet.info/
Techokami's HoleNet is a quirky personal site styled as a retro desktop interface, complete with a working Atari emulator (Javatari), solitaire, a notepad, and various ROM hacking tools for classic Sonic games. The downloads section showcases original PHP-based ROM rippers for a wide range of Sonic titles, making it a genuine resource for retro game hackers and enthusiasts.
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.