Retro Computing
195 sites
https://blog.geocities.institute/archives/tag/meta
One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age is Olia Lialina's research blog documenting her deep dive into the GeoCities torrent archive, analyzing and celebrating the aesthetics, culture, and quirks of early web personal homepages. Posts cover everything from MIDI files and under-construction GIFs to ontologies of old-web design patterns, making it a fascinating scholarly and nostalgic excavation of 1990s-2000s internet culture.
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.
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://web.badges.world/
Web Badges World is an archive of nearly 4,000 classic 80x15 pixel buttons that once decorated websites across the early internet, complete with a history of how these tiny badges were used for webrings, directories, RSS feeds, and browser identification. Created by Arthur, the site lets visitors filter badges by category, file type, and animation, making it an invaluable preservation effort for anyone nostalgic about the visual culture of the early web.
https://wezm.net/v2/posts/2025/website-fit-for-1999
Wesley Moore documents his journey building a retro-styled personal website written in HTML4 and served over plain HTTP, designed to work on vintage browsers like IE 4 on Mac OS 8.1. The post covers experimenting with hosting on a RISC-V ESP32-C3 microcontroller using bare-metal Rust before settling on a more practical home server setup, making it a fascinating read for anyone interested in old-web aesthetics and modern tinkering.
https://abandonware-france.org/
Abandonware France is a long-running French-language retrogaming preservation site dedicated to archiving and cataloging old PC games, complete with over 3100 titles available for automated installation. Visitors can browse abandonware games, read manuals, view magazine scans and cover art, watch retro gaming videos, and explore timelines of classic game companies and personalities.
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://softwareangel.neocities.org/
Software Angel's Computer Heaven is a cheerful personal page by Angel, a retro tech enthusiast who collects vintage computers, games, and gadgets spanning Windows, Linux, and Macintosh systems. The site features sections for art, gaming, reading, plushies, shrines, and a dedicated retrotech area, making it a cozy corner of the old web full of personality and nostalgia.
https://oerrorpage.neocities.org/
Oerrorpage is a gleefully chaotic personal site that celebrates old-web aesthetics, obsolete HTML tags like the marquee, and retro web culture with webrings, 88x31 buttons, and a MIDI collection. The creator leans hard into nostalgic internet absurdity, featuring flash content, software reviews, a logo archive, and participation in a dozen webrings.
https://atarimagazines.com/
The Classic Computer Magazine Archive preserves the full text of beloved early personal computing magazines including Antic, Creative Computing, Compute!, and many others spanning the 1970s through 1990s. Visitors can search over 10,000 articles covering Atari, Commodore, TRS-80, and other vintage platforms, making this an invaluable research archive for retro computing enthusiasts.