Retro Computing
195 sites
https://netizen.club/~maple
Maple 'Mavica' Syrup's cozy corner of the web, built and maintained on a Windows 98 Compaq Armada running RetroZilla, showcasing a genuine passion for vintage hardware and software. Visitors will find a growing collection of handcrafted Windows-style pixel art icons, personal updates on retro web development, and a warm old-web aesthetic that feels authentically late 90s.
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://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://textfiles.meulie.net/
A mirror of the legendary Textfiles.com, this site preserves thousands of ASCII text files from the mid-1980s BBS era, offering a remarkable window into early digital culture and underground computing history. Visitors can explore materials spanning BBS documentation, ASCII art, historical timelines, and audio artifacts that capture the spirit of pre-web online communities.
https://winbows.neocities.org/
Winbows XP is a creative Neocities personal site styled as a Windows XP desktop interface, complete with familiar UI elements like Start menu, My Documents, Paint, and Notepad reimagined as navigation. The site leans into 90s/early-2000s nostalgia with an aesthetic tribute to the classic operating system, offering a charming and interactive old-web experience.
https://scrollbars.matoseb.com/
Created by Sébastien Matos as an ECAL student project, this visual timeline traces the evolution of the scrollbar from Xerox Star in 1981 through Windows 10 in 2015, with screenshots of each OS interface. It is a concise and fascinating piece of UI history that shows how a seemingly mundane interface element transformed over four decades of computing.
https://nostalgiaair.org/
Nostalgia Air is a comprehensive online archive of free schematics, service manuals, and technical references for antique and vintage radios, covering models from the 1920s through the 1960s. Visitors can access scanned Beitman manuals, RCA Red Books, Zenith service guides, tube cross-reference data, and more, all organized by manufacturer and model.
https://www.creopard.de/
Creopard.de is a German-language retro computing hub dedicated to Windows 95, Windows 98, MS-DOS, and the Commodore 64, offering unofficial service packs, drivers, FAQs, and gaming tips you won't find elsewhere. Highlights include the site's own unofficial German Windows 98 SE and Windows 95 OSR2 service packs, plus guides for running DOS multiplayer games like Doom over IPX networks.
https://wmpskinsarchive.neocities.org/
A comprehensive archive of Windows Media Player skins, preserving hundreds of classic WMP themes ranging from official Xbox and game tie-in skins to fan-made designs from the early 2000s era. Each entry includes a preview image and a direct download link, with a bulk ZIP option for grabbing the entire collection at once.
https://pasokon-deacon.carrd.co/
Pasokon Deacon is a hub for a creator who has been covering Japanese and East Asian home computer history since 2020, exploring classic PC platforms, software, creators, and subcultures through videos, articles, and streams. A rare English-language resource diving deep into the world of vintage Japanese PCs, it links out to YouTube, Twitch, and other channels where the bulk of the content lives.