Web Design
1305 sites
https://oldavista.com/
Old'aVista is a nostalgic search engine dedicated to crawling and surfacing old websites from classic hosting services like Geocities, Angelfire, Tripod, and AOL, letting visitors rediscover the early web as it once existed. It pairs its retro-styled search interface with a curated directory of categories, an Internet Archive integration, and a community guestbook, making it a genuine labor of love for old-web preservation enthusiasts.
https://neo-neighborhoods.neocities.org/SoHo/residence
The NeoCities SoHo Residential District is a curated neighborhood directory listing personal homepages and creative sites from the Neocities community, styled after the classic GeoCities neighborhood format. Visitors can browse dozens of linked personal sites spanning art, writing, retro aesthetics, and more, each accompanied by a brief description and profile link.
https://lynn.ru/examples/svg/en.html
Alexey Ten shares a clever SVG graceful degradation technique that lets modern browsers display SVG images while older browsers automatically fall back to raster PNG versions using a single block of markup. The article is concise but technically illuminating, walking through the HTML parsing quirk that makes this cross-browser trick possible.
https://lookaround123.com/
Phil Viger of Meriden, Connecticut built this sprawling 166-page web portal packed with over 4,500 categorized bookmarks, MIDI music, HTML design tips, cartoons, and a wide range of curated internet resources. A true artifact of the mid-to-late 1990s web, it serves as both a personal homepage and a hand-crafted link directory covering everything from search engines to sports to education.
https://mihobu.lol/
Michael Burkhardt's personal weblog covers a wide range of everyday musings including travel, fitness, technology, movies, and weeknotes documenting his life since 1996. The site embraces the indie web ethos with slash pages, a microblog, a separate ham radio section, and a recipe collection, making it a richly layered personal web presence.
https://chrisritchie.org/kilroy/archive/2024/05/wandering.html
Chris Ritchie's 'Kilroy' is a long-running blog chronicling purposeful and aimless walks across the internet, curating and commenting on blogosphere discoveries, IndieWeb culture, and the open web. With archives stretching back to 2016 and over a thousand indexed pages, it serves as a personal link-log and meditation on web culture, blogging, and technology.
https://area-51.neocities.org/
A GeoCities-style neighborhood directory hosted on Neocities, recreating the classic Area 51 community hub complete with featured homesteaders, community links, and retro web aesthetics. It showcases member sites spanning geeky pop culture, text adventures, and personal journals in the spirit of 1990s web communities.
https://zylstra.org/opml/tonzylstra.opml
Ton Zylstra's curated blogroll presented as an OPML file, making it both human-readable and importable directly into any RSS or feed reader application. A useful snapshot of one person's web reading habits, this kind of structured subscription list is a classic artifact of the blogging and open web era.
https://webring.xxiivv.com/
The XXIIVV Webring is a curated community ring connecting artists, developers, and makers who build hand-crafted wikis and personal portfolios on the independent web. With hundreds of member sites spanning creative coders, digital artists, and indie web enthusiasts, it serves as both a discovery engine and a statement of intent for the small, handmade web movement.
https://kelprot.neocities.org/
THE KELZONE is a visually striking Neocities homepage by Kel, featuring animated floating elements, scrolling clouds, autoplay audio, and an interactive door graphic as the entry point. The page is almost entirely CSS and layout code, with the design itself being the primary content on display.