Retro Computing
195 sites
https://tilde.club/~beckstrom
Chris Beckstrom's tilde.club homepage embraces the old-web aesthetic on purpose, featuring a geek code block, animated GIFs, and logged entries about SSH tricks, sshfs mounting, and Unix tinkering. A classic shared Unix server community page from an elder millennial who has been online since 1996, blending nostalgia with genuine command-line enthusiasm.
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://tomasino.org/
James Tomasino's personal hub showcases a technologist and creative who is passionate about retro computing, the Fediverse, Gopher/Gemini protocols, and fiction writing. Notable projects include Cosmic Voyage, a collaborative sci-fi terminal universe, and Stitchy, a crochet pattern generator from images.
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://riomc.cloud/
Rio McCloud's personal digital garden covers technology tutorials spanning Windows, Linux, Android, cybersecurity, retrocomputing, and embedded systems, alongside art, comics, and personal blogs. A proudly independent Neocities site, it serves as a haven from algorithm-driven platforms with a wide range of original content to explore.
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://indigoparadox.zone/
indigoparadox's Web Zone is a technical infodump covering computers, devices, projects, tutorials, and utilities, with a focus on retro and alternative operating systems. The creator logs how-to knowledge for their own reference and shares it publicly, drawing from physical books and obscure corners of the Internet Archive to preserve hard-to-find information.
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.
https://jwz.org/
Jamie Zawinski, co-founder of Netscape and Mozilla.org and primary developer of Lucid Emacs, maintains this personal hub linking to his blog, DNA Lounge nightclub, hacks, and other projects. A piece of internet history from one of the most influential figures in early open-source and browser development.
https://insufficientscotty.com/2012/03/14/whatever-happened-to-webrings
InsufficientScotty is JohnScott's pop-culture and tech nostalgia blog, featuring a 'Whatever Happened To' series that digs into forgotten corners of early internet history like webrings, GeoCities, and the quirks of web culture past. This particular post traces the origins of webrings from the author's own first HTML project in 1994, making it a personal and surprisingly detailed look at a once-ubiquitous web phenomenon.