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https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2024/136/a1/indieweb_principles
Paul Robert Lloyd's personal site features a thoughtful essay examining the IndieWeb movement's 11 guiding principles, questioning whether they still serve the community's goals in 2024. Written after attending IndieWebCamp in Düsseldorf, the post proposes condensing the principles into a more accessible framework and invites community discussion on the IndieWeb wiki.
https://www.andreacorinti.com/
Andrea Corinti, known online as Xab, runs this Italian personal site as a self-described 'digital home' built with an old-web spirit, archiving his writing and web projects since 2018. The site features a blog touching on topics like IndieWeb and video games, with links to his GitHub, Last.fm, and Misskey social profiles.
https://ryanseddon.com/css/real-text-rotation-with-css
Ryan Seddon's technical blog dives into CSS tricks and techniques, with this post exploring real text rotation using the CSS3 writing-mode property as a cleaner alternative to IE's proprietary filters. The site covers a range of front-end web development topics including pure CSS menus, custom form inputs, and accordion effects.
https://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2021/10/2021-10-22-rediscovering-my.html
Jim E. from the Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University documents his quest to recover his old Angelfire.com personal pages using the Wayback Machine's CDX API. The post blends nostalgia for early web artifacts like ICQ numbers and Geocities with a genuine technical walkthrough of web archiving tools and digital preservation methods.
https://evolt.org/node/4299
Evolt.org is a volunteer-run community resource for web developers, featuring member-submitted articles, news, and reviews covering topics like usability, backend code, visual design, and software. This particular article by Madhu Menon explores how to create helpful and user-friendly 404 error pages, a classic piece of web development guidance from the early 2000s.
https://1x.neocities.org/
The 1X Network is a webring hub connecting independent and personal websites through multiple rings including the Hotline Webring and Weird Wide Web Ring. It serves as a central node for old-web style site discovery, offering links, a newsletter, and community tools for participants.
https://fanlistings.nickifaulk.com/webrings
Created by Nicki Faulk, this fanlisting celebrates the nostalgic world of webrings, those curated link communities that helped 90s web surfers hop between like-minded sites. Visitors can join as fans, browse member lists, and even find active webring projects keeping the old-web tradition alive today.
https://sentex.net/~ajy
James Yolkowski's sprawling personal homepage covers a wide range of self-built web projects, from a mathematics reference site to a Calvin and Hobbes index, interesting facts collections, and hockey history articles. The site serves as a hub linking to numerous independently created resources spanning math, science fiction, puzzles, and Canadian history.
https://indieseek.xyz/
Indieseek.xyz is a human-curated, searchable web directory dedicated to indexing the independent web, including personal blogs, classic HTML pages, and web revival sites. It serves as a hub for those looking to discover or promote indie websites outside of corporate silos, with features like a stumble tool, new listings feed, and submission guidelines.
https://roflcopterr.nekoweb.org/
terminalTechnologist's personal homepage on Nekoweb, built with heavy use of JavaScript and iframes and optimized for Firefox on a 1366x768 display. The site credits Petrapixel's layout generator and features classic old-web elements like enter/exit buttons and browser recommendation badges.