~ Early Web Links ~

OH MY GOSH I found this place through a link on someone's Sailor Moon shrine page and I have been clicking around for like THREE HOURS!! I keep finding the coolest little homepages!! Someone had a page dedicated entirely to their pet lizard with a tiny hat!! I love that people are still making stuff like this!! This directory is amazing and I'm bookmarking it RIGHT NOW!! Thank you so much for putting this together!!!

I still remember spending entire weekends in middle school just tweaking table layouts and picking the perfect tiled background for my Geocities page. Nobody visited it except my best friend, but it felt like I'd built something real. Finding this directory honestly brought that same feeling back. Thanks for keeping the spirit alive.

My kids could NOT believe that I used to spend hours picking the perfect tiled background and midi song for my Geocities page about our cats. I still have a little site I tinker with when I can, mostly family recipes and photos from our garden. Showing them this directory was the highlight of my weekend honestly. They think it's hilarious but I think they secretly get it.

ok so i just found out about neocities like 2 months ago and its literally changed my whole brain?? like people used to just make websites about whatever they wanted. their cat, their favorite anime, cool rocks they found. no algorithm telling you what to post, no clout chasing, just people being THEMSELVES and having fun with it!! i started making my own site and honestly decorating it with blinkies and pixel art is so much more fun than any social media ever was =D this directory is so cool ty

HI!! I literally just finished my first homepage like two days ago and finding this directory made my whole week =D I spent way too long picking out tiling backgrounds and making a little gif collection page lol. It feels SO good to have my own corner of the internet again instead of just posting into the void on social media. Seeing all these other personal sites popping up gives me so much hope that the old web spirit isn't dead!! Signed the guestbook on every site I visited today ^_^ keep it

I have gotten lost for hours wandering through this directory that features an eclectic mix of retro personal websites, blogs and creative projects. I appreciate the work you do in maintaining such a valuable resource for independent creators and web enthusiasts. Thank you for the feature! and keep them coming

Found this through the link page on Yesterweb! I run a little site about houseplants and my cat. Mostly just photos and care guides I typed up myself. Would love to be listed here if you're taking submissions!

ok so I'm 16 and I just got into this whole old web thing a few months ago and it honestly makes me SO nostalgic for something I barely even experienced?? like I vaguely remember being maybe 5 or 6 and my older cousin showing me her neopets page and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. this directory is amazing, I've been clicking through sites for hours. thank you for keeping this alive!!

honestly webrings and link pages are SO much better than algorithms for finding cool stuff. like you actually find weird little sites made by real people instead of the same 5 websites over and over. more people need to know about this!!

Hi, thanks for spreading the word about HDUB Pixel Art Edition (HTML Hobby program) and dckim.com I have converted the main site towards a 'tech blog' type thingy. I found your linking page and thought 'wow, a link from an actual person on a real website' I hope you don't mind, I am thinking to write a little article to thank you, and tell about your site and its mission. If so, then I'll post it to my mastodon feed. I hope that's okay with you. Thanks again!

I've been clicking through this directory for the last two hours and I'm not even close to done. Every link is a rabbit hole of someone's passion project with custom backgrounds and visitor counters and webrings. This is exactly how the internet should feel. I hand-code all my stuff too and finding sites like this reminds me why I bother. Bookmarked and I'll be back often. Thank you for putting this together!

OK does ANYONE else remember webrings?!?! Like you'd click 'next' and 'previous' and just stumble onto some random person's page about their cat or their Star Trek fanfic collection!! That was SO MUCH BETTER than algorithms deciding what you see!! I miss just wandering!! Also this directory rules, it reminds me of those old link pages everyone used to maintain by hand!! Pure HTML, no webpack, no node_modules folder bigger than the universe!! Just index.html and a dream!!!

Just found this directory through a link on someone's bookmark page and I've been clicking around for like two hours now. I'm writing a paper on early web culture for my digital media class and honestly browsing sites like these has taught me more than any reading. People just MADE stuff because they wanted to, no algorithm, no followers count, just pure creative energy. This rules, thank you for keeping it going!

ok i literally just found this place from a link on someone's neocities page and i am SO happy right now. people are actually making personal sites again!! like with guestbooks and webrings and everything. i missed this so much. i started building my own page last week and its the most fun ive had online in years honestly. gonna spend all night clicking through this directory lol. thank you for keeping this going!!

just found this directory and ive been clicking through links for like two hours now. theres something so nice about opening a page and its just... html. no frameworks, no javascript bloat, just someone who wanted to share something they care about and wrote it by hand. my own site is literally just a bunch of pages about houseplants with tables for layout and i love it that way. bookmarking this for sure, thanks for keeping it going!!

wowz, this is epic. guestbooks are a thing i haven't seen in decades. i only found this when seeing if my site had been crawled and stomped on by the artificial intelligences of the world (spoiler alert: it had). keep on doing this, i love things related to archiving the internet.

My kids are 11 and 13 and they literally cannot believe the internet used to look like this lol. I was showing them my old geocities page on the wayback machine and they were like WHY IS IT ALL BLINKING and I was like BECAUSE IT WAS BEAUTIFUL. Found this directory and now we've been clicking through sites for like an hour. They actually think its cool?? This is the best parenting win I've had in months honestly. Thanks for keeping this stuff alive!!

ok so basically i took this digital culture seminar last semester and we had to look at old geocities archives for a project and i literally fell down the DEEPEST rabbit hole. like the internet used to be so weird and personal?? everyone just made pages about their cats and favorite anime and nobody cared if it looked "professional." now i spend way too much time on neocities lol. this directory is so cool, bookmarking immediately. thanks for keeping this stuff alive!!

I still remember spending entire Saturday afternoons in 2001 learning how to make table layouts in Notepad, uploading everything over dialup to my Geocities page. Nothing since has felt that exciting honestly.

ok wait i am literally taking a class on internet history and culture right now and we were just talking about guestbooks last week. i never actually got to sign one before?? this is so cool. like this whole directory is basically what my professor keeps trying to explain to us but actually alive and working. bookmarking this immediately. thanks for keeping it going