Retro Computing
195 sites
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://engineering-sample.com/
Run by Sam 'Doc TB' Demeulemeester, this vault is a deep-dive resource dedicated to engineering sample CPUs, the pre-production processors issued by manufacturers during chip development that often expose cancelled features, transitional steppings, and unreleased configurations. A labor of love since 2002, the site chronicles the history and variations of ES CPUs alongside broader vintage computing restoration and experimentation.
http://obsoletecomputermuseum.org/
Running since 1995, the Obsolete Computer Museum catalogs a wide range of vintage and obsolete computers with individual exhibit pages for machines like the Acorn Electron, TI-99/4A, Zenith Z89, and dozens more. Visitors can browse hardware exhibits, submit questions to the helpline, and even donate old equipment to the collection.
https://win98icons.alexmeub.com/
Alex Meub's Windows 98 Icon Viewer is an interactive browser-based gallery showcasing the classic icon set from Microsoft's iconic 1998 operating system. Visitors can browse and download the original pixel-art icons including the Recycle Bin, My Computer, and Documents folders, making it a handy nostalgia resource for retro computing enthusiasts and designers.
https://hellosailor.neocities.org/
George's colorful personal site celebrates retro web aesthetics and old internet culture, with pixel art, mini-banners, and 32x32 icons at its heart. The site is actively under construction with plans for shrines, an affiliates page, and hidden easter eggs that make it a charming corner of the modern Neocities scene.
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://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.
http://oldskool.org/guides/tvdog
Tvdog's Archive is a dedicated resource for Tandy 1000-series computer enthusiasts, hosting files, FAQs, DOS Internet programs, and FTP archives for these classic machines. The site also features photo galleries of multiple Tandy 1000 models and curates links to major DOS software archives like Simtel, Garbo, and PC-Blue.
https://edlinfan.neocities.org/
Edlinfan's homepage is a lovingly crafted tribute to DOS-era computing, styled as a command-line interface complete with ASCII art and drive prompt aesthetics. Named after the classic DOS line editor EDLIN, the site includes a blog, archive, webcam, and weather sections all presented in retro terminal fashion.
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.