Web Design
1378 sites
https://0rion.neocities.org/
A minimal entry page by 0rion on Neocities, featuring a click-through splash with graphics credited to swirl and emocowboy. The site uses a retro monospace aesthetic with a dark background and red link styling typical of early-web personal pages.
https://blog.xtexx.eu.org/
Xtex's bilingual blog serves as a casual personal writing space, presenting content in both Chinese and English for an international audience. The site participates in multiple webrings including exoring and envs ring, connecting it to a broader community of indie web enthusiasts.
https://neonaut.neocities.org/
Neonaut is a charming old-web personal hub featuring an 88x31 button archive, a web directory, webrings, and a collection dubbed 'Ancient Artifacts of bygone eras.' The site leans heavily into retro internet aesthetics, complete with CRT prompts, Matrix codefall effects, and a Swatch Internet Time widget.
https://no-www.org/
No-WWW.org advocates for dropping the "www." subdomain from web addresses, arguing that it is technically outdated and unnecessary in the modern internet. The site offers domain validation tools, a roster of over 60,000 validated domains, and FAQs explaining the technical and philosophical case for subdomain-free URLs.
https://snowfallgarden.lophius.xyz/
Snowfall Garden is a creative tool by lophius.xyz that lets you generate and customize animated snowflake effects for use on your own website. Visitors can browse snowflake designs shared by others or build their own, making it a handy little resource for old-web and personal page decorators.
https://ericportis.com/
Eric Portis writes technical articles about responsive images, color spaces, and web performance, alongside personal posts about running, camping, and travel. His deep dives into browser features like View Transitions and the picture element make this a valuable resource for front-end developers interested in cutting-edge web standards.
https://hyperorg.com/2020/02/26/my-2004-blogroll
David Weinberger's long-running blog 'Joho the Blog' features a nostalgic post reconstructing his 2004 blogroll, complete with reflections on how blogrolls functioned as early social networks in the pre-Facebook blogosphere. The post offers a fascinating time capsule of early blogging culture, linking to archived versions of prominent early bloggers like Cory Doctorow, Dan Gillmor, and Tim Bray via the Internet Archive.
https://embarrasseddragon234.neocities.org/rest-stops/TeenyTowers
A page from embarrasseddragon234's personal Neocities site dedicated to Teeny Towers, a clique where participants build a pixelated tower filled with themed rooms. The creator's tower features rooms inspired by Orko and Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc, showcasing charming old-web decorative culture including adopts, blinkies, badges, and clubs.
http://sonic.net/scoop/00000.html
A massive personal link collection cataloging nearly every URL its creator visited from around 1995 through 2012, spanning shareware, weirdness, conspiracy culture, fonts, software, and NASA. The sheer historical scope of nearly 4,600 links makes it a fascinating digital time capsule of one person's internet browsing life across almost two decades.
https://kalechips.neocities.org/
Kalechips is a creative personal site by a web enthusiast who offers free website layouts, hosts a pixel art toybox, and publishes an online zine called Salad Magazine. The site is notable for its accessibility-focused free layouts, a 'layout thrift store' with multiple downloadable designs, and a charming self-deprecating personality throughout.