Retro Computing
183 sites
https://omegalogic.neocities.org/
OMEGALOGIC is a nostalgic Neocities site dedicated to memoirs and musings about the early web, featuring sections on retro computing, vintage browsers like Netscape, beige box computers, and the culture of 1990s internet life. The creator, Omega, has built a charmingly period-accurate page complete with ASCII art, a guestbook, and a retro gaming top-10 list that evokes the feeling of browsing the web in 1997.
https://pc98.org/
PC98 Images is a long-running archive dedicated to distributing disk images for the classic NEC PC-98 platform, active since 2003. Visitors can browse a library of disk images with descriptions, download selected games added weekly, and submit requests for specific titles.
http://savethesounds.info/
The Museum of Endangered Sounds is a quirky archival project dedicated to preserving the iconic audio signatures of obsolete and fading technology, from dial-up modem screech to the click of an AIM notification. Visitors can browse and play back sounds that defined an era of computing and consumer electronics, making it a nostalgic time capsule for anyone who grew up with these forgotten auditory relics.
https://soft.lafibre.info/
A comprehensive archive of old Linux and OS ISO files organized by kernel version, spanning from 1994 through the 2010s, maintained by Vivien Gueant. Visitors can download vintage distributions like Slackware, Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat, and even OS/2 Warp directly for use with VirtualBox or physical media.
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.
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://cucug.org/amiga
The Amiga Web Directory was operated by the Champaign-Urbana Computer Users Group (CUCUG) from 1994 to 2000, serving as one of the most comprehensive link collections for Amiga computer resources on the web. Now retired, this archived version still points to surviving Amiga communities, news archives, file repositories like Aminet, and other resources for fans of the classic Commodore platform.
https://c00lgui.neocities.org/
Inky's personal Neocities site greets visitors with a classic old-web splash page complete with autoplay music warnings and frameset-based navigation. The retro aesthetic and technical choices mirror the geocities-era web, making it a charming example of handcrafted personal web design.
https://nineties.website/
Charlie Harvey's loving tribute to the aesthetic and spirit of 1990s web design, complete with retro GIFs, ALL CAPS HTML nostalgia, and curated links to other old-school-style sites. A celebration of the amateur, hand-crafted early web that doubles as a mini directory of retro-inspired pages and webrings keeping the nineties internet alive.
https://openrain502r.github.io/athe52.github.io
athe52's personal site is a curated link collection focused on retro computing, old-web nostalgia, and vintage software, featuring resources like Office 97 assistants, GeoCities-era GIFs, and early text-to-speech tools. The creator is also working on several original projects including lunarOS History and Project Fossil, with a clear love for preserving and exploring computing history.