Retro Computing
195 sites
http://tilde.club/~brennen
Brennen's tilde.club home on the old-school Unix shared server squiggle.city features a HyperCard-inspired stack of dated personal notes, textfiles, and reflections on command-line tools, DOS software, text editors, and shell scripting. Packed with geek charm, the site touches on everything from git workflows to Perl feed scripts, nostalgia-tripping on vintage software, and musings on the indie web.
https://zophar.net/
Zophar's Domain is one of the oldest and most comprehensive emulation resource sites on the web, offering downloads for emulators across dozens of classic platforms including NES, SNES, N64, Sega, and Commodore 64. Visitors can also find video game music files (NSF, PSF, SPC formats), ROM hacks, savestates, cheats, translations, and technical documents, making it an essential stop for retro gaming and emulation enthusiasts.
https://mistigris.org/
Mistigris is a long-running computer arts group founded in 1994 that releases regular 'artpacks' featuring ANSI art, ASCII art, and other digital works rooted in the BBS and demoscene tradition. With monthly releases dating back decades, a 30th anniversary collection, and connections to tools like PabloDraw and the 16colo.rs gallery, this is a living hub for oldschool computer art culture.
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://netizen.club/
Netizen Club is a collective dedicated to the retro web revival, bringing together old-computer enthusiasts through a webring, curated link cache, homepages directory, and a queer web 1.0 forum called Lesbiaboard. The community also offers NSV streams designed for playback on very old computers and connects members via Mastodon, IRC, and XMPP.
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://blog.geocities.institute/archives/3808
One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age is a research blog by Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied digging through the archived Geocities torrent, surfacing and analyzing old-web artifacts like GIFs, MIDI files, and defunct personal pages. This particular post explains the automated process behind their companion Tumblr blog that screenshots and posts rescued Geocities pages, offering a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at digital archaeology.
https://cockgobl.in/
Katie's personal Neocities-style site blends old computer aesthetics with personal blogging, featuring posts about a Toshiba Libretto 100CT, BeOS and HaikuOS themes, and a Japan trip. The site has a charming retro feel with a music player, guestbook, gif collection, and webring memberships that draw in fellow fans of vintage tech.
https://vipercard.net/
ViperCard is an open source recreation and reimagination of Apple's classic 1987 HyperCard application, rebuilt to run in modern browsers. Visitors can launch the app directly, play embedded games like Glider and Spaceman Gamma, browse scripting API documentation, and follow a crowdfunded roadmap for features like HC stack import and MIDI music creation.
http://bbslist.textfiles.com/
A massive historical archive of dial-up BBS phone numbers compiled from numerous sources, preserving a comprehensive record of Bulletin Board Systems from the pre-internet era. Maintained by Jason Scott of textfiles.com, the list includes FAQs, statistics, an introduction to BBS culture, and even a link to the documentary film about BBSes.