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We'd love to hear what you think, what sites you've found, or just say hello.
Name:
~neonpetal~
Date: May 10, 2026
Just finished my first homepage last night and I'm SO proud of it lol. Finding this directory reminded me why I wanted to make one in the first place. The old web was just people being weird and creative and making stuff because they WANTED to, not because some algorithm told them to. I missed that so much and I didn't even realize it until now. Thanks for keeping this alive!!
Date: May 9, 2026
Webrings and link pages were honestly the BEST way to find cool stuff online. No algorithm, just people saying hey check out my friend's site. We need more of that again!!
Name:
Kevin
Date: May 8, 2026
this is so cool!! ive been working on my own little site about shortwave radio for like 2 years now and honestly finding directories like this makes me feel like im not just shouting into the void lol. feels like ppl are actually getting tired of the same 5 social media apps and wanting somthing more personal again. bookmarking this for sure, gonna check out every link here when i get home from work tonight
Name:
Rachel
Date: May 7, 2026
OH MY GOSH a real guestbook!! I haven't signed one of these in like 15 years?? This made my whole day honestly. I hand-code all my sites and people look at me like I'm crazy but there's nothing like just writing HTML in a text editor, you know? No frameworks, no build tools, just you and your tags. This directory is such a cool project, bookmarking it right now. Thanks for keeping the spirit alive ^_^ :)
Name:
Maya
Date: May 6, 2026
This site is SO cool, I'm literally doing a paper on early web culture for my digital media class and stumbled on this. It reminds me of when I was like 7 and my older cousin showed me her Neopets page and her personal site on Geocities with all the sparkly cursor trails and midi music playing. I thought she was a genius hacker lol. I miss when the internet felt like exploring someone's bedroom walls ^_^ Bookmarking this forever :)
Date: May 5, 2026
Just finished putting together my first homepage last weekend and I'm so proud of it honestly! I found this directory while looking for cool sites to get inspired by. I grew up watching my older sister make her Geocities page in like 2003 and I always wanted one of my own. Finally got around to it and now I can't stop tweaking my layout lol. Love this place, bookmarked!
Date: May 4, 2026
ok so i just spent like 2 hours clicking through this directory and found SO many cool shrines?? like actual honest to god character shrines with custom pixel art and midi music. i havent seen stuff like that since i was 13 on geocities staying up way too late on a school night. someone had a whole shrine dedicated to vash the stampede and i almost cried lol. bookmarking this forever, thank you for keeping the old web alive!! <3
Date: May 3, 2026
just spent like two hours clicking through links on here and honestly it made my whole week. theres something so good about opening a page and seeing raw html someone sat down and wrote by hand, no frameworks no javascript bloat, just a person putting stuff on the internet because they wanted to. i make all my pages in notepad and it never stops being satisfying. anyway this directory rules, thank you for keeping track of all these little corners of the web. bookmarked forever
Date: May 2, 2026
YES. I've been saying this for years!! You don't need React to make a cool website. You don't need Next.js. You don't need a build step. You need a text editor and some HTML and maybe a little CSS if you're feeling fancy :) I started redoing my personal site last month, just raw HTML like I used to write in 2003, and honestly it's the most fun I've had coding in ages. So glad directories like this exist. The personal web is BACK ^_^
Name:
~*ママof3*~
Date: May 1, 2026
ok so i literally pulled my kids over to the computer to show them this site and they were like wait... people just MADE websites about whatever they wanted?? and i was like YES that was the whole point!! my oldest actually wants to make her own page now about her hamster and honestly i could cry. so glad personal sites are coming back. this directory is amazing, bookmarked immediately. the internet used to feel like this and it can again 💖
Name:
Jamie R.
Date: April 30, 2026
ok so i only found out about neocities like 2 months ago and its literally changed how i think about the internet?? like on tiktok and instagram everything looks the same and everyone is trying to perform for the algorithm. but old web sites are just... people making stuff because they wanted to. no analytics no followers just someone going hey i like frogs and heres my frog page. this directory is so cool i've been clicking through it for hours lol. i started making my own site last week and it
Date: April 29, 2026
ok does anyone else remember webring surfing for HOURS just clicking 'next' and finding the wildest personal pages?? like genuinely random strangers' sites about their cat or their mineral collection or whatever. i miss that so much. google killed that whole vibe of stumbling onto stuff. anyway this directory is doing gods work, bookmarked immediately. also if anyoen remembers the "hand coded with pride" badges lmk i'm trying to collect all the variations for my site
Name:
Jess M.
Date: April 28, 2026
ok so I'm taking a digital culture class this semester and my professor pointed us to this directory for a project. I spent like 3 hours just clicking through old geocities-style shrines?? Like people made entire websites dedicated to one specific anime character or a single video game and they're SO lovingly put together. The blinkies, the custom cursors, the under construction gifs. It hits different from everything being on the same 4 platforms now. Bookmarking this forever ^_^
Date: April 27, 2026
I just spent like two hours clicking through links on here and I regret nothing!! :D Found so many cool personal sites I never would have found otherwise. I only started my own neocities page a few weeks ago and honestly discovering directories like this is what keeps me motivated to keep building it. Bookmarked SO many pages tonight. Thanks for putting this together ^_^
Name:
Kevin R.
Date: April 26, 2026
OK so I just spent like two hours clicking through this directory and I found a whole bunch of hand-coded anime shrines!! Like actual SHRINES with custom dividers and midi music and those little pixel dollz in the corner!! I literally had a Sailor Moon shrine on Geocities back in like 2001 and seeing these made me SO happy I almost cried lol. Some of them still have working guestbooks too!! This directory is amazing, thank you so much for putting it together!!!
Name:
Karen
Date: April 25, 2026
I pulled my kids over to look at this with me and they couldn't believe websites used to look like this lol. My 10 year old was like "why is everything blinking" =D This directory is SO fun to browse through. We've been clicking around for like an hour finding all these little personal pages people made. It reminds me of staying up late on our family's first computer just surfing random homepages. Thanks for keeping all this together :) Kids are actually into it!!
Name:
~*cableknit*~
Date: April 24, 2026
honestly link pages and webrings were the BEST way to find cool stuff. you just clicked through and suddenly you're on some stranger's page about moths or vintage synths and your whole afternoon is gone. algorithms could never. i still maintain a links page on my site and people act like its weird but whatever, curation by actual humans beats a feed any day. glad directories like this one still exist, keep it going!!
Date: April 23, 2026
Found this directory last night and spent like 3 hours just clicking through sites. Every page has actual personality, you know? No tracking scripts, no cookie banners, no 400kb of minified JS just to render a paragraph. Just HTML and someone's genuine thoughts. Social media turned us all into content creators performing for algorithms. I miss when the web was just people making weird little pages for fun because they wanted to. This directory rules, bookmarked immediately. :) Keep it going ^_^
Name:
~html_kid~
Date: April 22, 2026
Just got my first page up last week and I've been clicking around here for hours. Found a whole ring of sites dedicated to collecting screenshots of old geocities neighborhoods?? I had no idea people were preserving that stuff. So cool.
Date: April 21, 2026
oh man a GUESTBOOK. i havent signed one of these since like 2003. this genuinely made my day. i build websites for a living now and every day i fight the urge to throw react in the trash and just write plain html like we used to. no build step, no node_modules folder the size of a small planet, just index.html and vibes. bookmarking this whole directory, gonna be clicking through these links all night. thanks for keeping this alive!!
