Retro Computing
195 sites
http://mauricesden.net/
Maurice's Den is the charmingly retro homepage of Maurice the Rat and his hare companion Hazel, two fictional time-travelling characters who collect vintage technology and explore old junk across time and space. The site features a dedicated Vintage Tech section, commissioned character art, and a heartfelt manifesto about recapturing the spirit of the old web, complete with a guestbook and TheOldNet webring membership.
https://pasokon-deacon.carrd.co/
Pasokon Deacon is a hub for a creator who has been covering Japanese and East Asian home computer history since 2020, exploring classic PC platforms, software, creators, and subcultures through videos, articles, and streams. A rare English-language resource diving deep into the world of vintage Japanese PCs, it links out to YouTube, Twitch, and other channels where the bulk of the content lives.
http://altexxanet.org/
ALTEXXANET recreates the 1990s internet experience by offering free public access to classic internet services including Usenet, IRC, Gopher, FTP, and a Hotline BBS. Visitors can download old text files, freeware, and shareware software, making it a nostalgic playground for anyone who remembers the pre-web internet era.
https://tilde.club/~gasconheart
Gasconheart's tilde.club personal page is home base for a member of the old-web tilde community, with links to multiple tilde and SDF accounts, a blog, and even membership in the Cassette Tape Storage Council. The site reflects the hobbyist Unix shell community aesthetic, connecting visitors to a network of small public-access Linux servers and retro-web culture.
http://savethesounds.info/
The Museum of Endangered Sounds is a quirky archival project dedicated to preserving the iconic audio signatures of obsolete and fading technology, from dial-up modem screech to the click of an AIM notification. Visitors can browse and play back sounds that defined an era of computing and consumer electronics, making it a nostalgic time capsule for anyone who grew up with these forgotten auditory relics.
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.
http://cadrega.dev/
Elijah's Homepage is a charming old-web-style personal site featuring a link collection, friends' websites, and quirky updates with references to classics like LEGO Island and Slingo. The site participates in the Geekring webring and maintains several sub-projects including CafeNet and PCDB, giving it a distinctly retro computing community feel.
https://www.creopard.de/
Creopard.de is a German-language retro computing hub dedicated to Windows 95, Windows 98, MS-DOS, and the Commodore 64, offering unofficial service packs, drivers, FAQs, and gaming tips you won't find elsewhere. Highlights include the site's own unofficial German Windows 98 SE and Windows 95 OSR2 service packs, plus guides for running DOS multiplayer games like Doom over IPX networks.
http://1x-upon.com/
Created by net artists Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied, this project recreates three significant contemporary websites as they might have appeared in late 1997, complete with dial-up speed throttling, frames-based HTML, and a recommendation to view on Netscape Navigator 4.03 under Windows 95. It is a nostalgic and conceptual art piece that lovingly preserves the aesthetic and technical spirit of the early web era.
https://blog.geocities.institute/archives/2698
"One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age" is a research and archival blog dedicated to digging through the massive Geocities torrent, surfacing artifacts and insights from the old web. This particular post by despens announces a unified patched torrent combining the original Geocities release with its patches, making it easier for preservationists to seed the data indefinitely.