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://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://atariarchives.org/bcc1/showpage.php?page=4
Atari Archives hosts digitized pages from 'The Best of Creative Computing Volume 1' (1976), one of the earliest and most influential computing magazines. This particular page presents a fascinating early discussion of computer security, timesharing system intrusion, and the ethical and legal questions around what we would now call hacking.
https://tilde.town/~netscape_navigator
Netscape Navigator's tilde.town blog chronicles a hands-on enthusiasm for retro computing, covering everything from installing CF card SSDs on vintage Pentium III machines to tinkering with classic operating systems like Windows 3.1 and Haiku OS. Posts are pulled from a Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) feed, giving the site an offbeat decentralized-internet flavor alongside nature snapshots, gadget links, and old-school web aesthetics.
https://jeith.com/
Jeith's Neocities personal site lovingly recreates old-web aesthetics with pixel art collections, photo books, song diaries, art galleries, and fan shrines including a dedicated Mario Party fanpage. The site also features the WiiRing webring and embraces Y2K web culture with webrings, fanlistings, pixel clubs, and a guestbook.