~ Early Web Links ~

Love this directory! I've been hand-coding my personal site since 2003 and I still maintain it the old fashioned way. It's basically a dumping ground for my photography, travel journals, and a page dedicated to every book I've read since high school. No frameworks, no JavaScript bloat, just HTML and CSS. Finding places like this makes me feel less alone in still caring about the small web. Bookmarked!

OH MY GOSH I love this directory so much!! I run a little site about vintage sewing patterns and let me tell you, having my OWN page where I can make it look however I want is SO much better than fighting with algorithms on instagram!! Nobody sees my posts there anyway!! On my website I can use whatever colors I want and put midis on it and nobody can take it away from me!! The old web was about PEOPLE not engagement metrics!! Thank you for keeping this alive!!!

OH MY GOSH I love this directory so much!! I got into the retro web because I was cleaning out my old computer and found my geocities backup from 2002!! It had animated starfield backgrounds and a MIDI of the X-Files theme and I literally almost cried lol!! It reminded me that websites used to have SO much personality!! Now I hand-code everything in notepad and I will NEVER go back to templates!! Thank you for keeping this alive!!!

I miss when everyone's website looked different and weird and totally THEM. No templates, no algorithms, just people making stuff because they wanted to. That's what got me into art in the first place honestly. Love this directory so much, I've been clicking around for hours finding the coolest little sites. Thanks for keeping this alive!

ok does ANYONE else remember those little pixel dollz maker sites from like the early 2000s?? i found one on the wayback machine last week and i literally screamed lol. i used to think those were so ancient but now i'm obsessed with making them again. i even put a dollz page on my site ^_^ this directory is SO cool btw, i keep finding new sites to explore every time i visit!! ty for keeping this alive :) :)

This directory rules. I've been hand-writing HTML since '98 and honestly nothing has ever felt as good as just putting stuff on a page without 400MB of node_modules. Social media wants you to be content for an algorithm, but a personal homepage is just YOU. No engagement metrics, no feeds, just someone's weird little corner of the internet. We need more of this.

Ok I literally found this site while doing research for my digital culture class and now I've been clicking through links for like two hours instead of writing my paper lol. It makes me so happy that people are building personal sites again!! I'm learning HTML right now and honestly it feels so much more ME than any social media profile ever could. This directory is such a cool resource, thank you for keeping it going 💖

god i miss when the internet was just people making weird little pages about stuff they loved. no algorithms, no engagement metrics, just someone staying up til 3am figuring out how to tile a background image and writing about their cat or their favorite anime. every page felt like walking into someone's bedroom and seeing all their posters on the wall. that was the real internet to me. thanks for keeping this alive

Showed my kids this site tonight and they couldn't believe websites used to look like this!! My 10 year old said "why is it so plain" and I was like THAT'S THE BEAUTY OF IT. Just someone writing HTML by hand, no frameworks, no templates, just a person and a text editor. Honestly it hits different now. My daughter wants to learn HTML after seeing these pages and I'm so proud :) ^_^ Thanks for keeping this alive!

oh my gosh i have been clicking around this directory for like two hours now and i keep finding the coolest little pages!! someone's hamster shrine from 2001?? a page about collecting erasers with midis playing?? this is what the internet is supposed to FEEL like. every link is a surprise and i love it so much. thank you for keeping this alive, seriously :) bookmarked forever ^_^

oh my god i love this directory so much. ive been making little html pages again after like 15 years away and its the most fun ive had in forever. theres something about hand coding a page with your own weird color choices and tiling backgrounds that just feeds my soul in a way that posting on social media never did. so glad personal sites are coming back, people are realizing you dont need a platform you just need a text editor and some dreams lol. bookmarking this!!

man i miss when the internet felt like exploring a weird neighborhood instead of being stuck in the same 3 strip malls. social media killed the fun of just stumbling onto someones page about like, their cat or their vintage radio collection. nobody needs an algorithm to tell them whats interesting. glad places like this still exist, bookmarked and gonna spend my whole evening clicking through links lol

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!!

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!!

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

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 ^_^ :)

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 :)

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!

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

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