Retro Computing
195 sites
https://restorativland.org/
Restorativland is an ambitious preservation project dedicated to excavating and restoring shut-down web ruins like GeoCities, MySpace Music, and AOL Hometown into searchable, visitable, and remixable archives. Positioned somewhere between a library and a living museum, the project works to close the gap between archival and public visibility of the lost early web.
https://16colo.rs/
Sixteen Colors is a comprehensive archive preserving ANSI and ASCII artpacks released through the BBS underground art scene from the early 1990s to the present day. Visitors can browse by artist, group, year, or file type, exploring thousands of pieces from a vibrant era of text-mode digital art.
https://purplehello98.neocities.org/
PurpleHello98 is an old-web style personal site participating in multiple retro-themed webrings including the Retronaut Webring and the Hotline Webring. The site leans into vintage internet aesthetics and community, with a strong anti-AI stance signaled by its circuit board imagery.
https://gopherproxy.meulie.net/sdf.org/1/users/schroeder
Schroeder's GopherSpace on SDF is a charming phlog (Gopher blog) dedicated to obsolete and retro technology, with entries covering devices like the Sony PSP, Palm Tungsten, Sega Saturn, MiniDisc, Bandai Wonderswan, and OpenBSD adventures. With dozens of phlog entries spanning years of old computer challenges and niche hardware exploration, it's a treasure trove for anyone nostalgic about forgotten tech.
https://phoenixim.ddns.net/phoenix/index.php
Phoenix, created by Wildman Productions, is a revival service that brings back the classic instant messaging platforms of the late 1990s, including AIM, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, and MSN, letting users chat using the original software clients once more. The project is a labor of love dedicated to preserving the social networking experience of the pre-Facebook era, complete with server infrastructure, custom client downloads, and an active user community.
https://icarusdean.neocities.org/
ICHOR.system is a stylized personal page by Icarusdean, presented entirely in ASCII art with a retro terminal aesthetic. The site leans heavily into old-school computer culture with its text-based layout and monospaced visual design.
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.
https://bladesplace.id.au/geocities-neighborhoods-suburbs.html
Blade's Place hosts a comprehensive reference guide to every GeoCities Homestead neighborhood and suburb, complete with icons, history, and a detailed explanation of how the old themed address system worked. This lovingly researched page is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in early web history, preserving details about the community structure that made GeoCities a landmark of the 1990s internet.
https://tilde.club/~4mvrs
Greg Sainsbury's minimal tilde.club page, where he reflects on finally figuring out how to edit it and pays homage to a terrible personal webpage he had in the late 1990s. The username '4mvrs' is a deliberate callback to his old qlink.queensu.ca address, giving the page a nostalgic nod to early web culture.
https://1.44mb.club/
The 1.44MB Webring connects enthusiasts who use, love, or make art with floppy disks, celebrating the iconic 3.5-inch format as both a nostalgic medium and a creative tool. Members include artists who create floppy disk art, hobbyists who back up their websites onto physical disks, and anyone who simply keeps floppies around for the love of it.