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Date: July 16, 2026
man this site rules. i spent like an hour clicking thru the links lol. reminds me of when i was 12 and i had a geocities page where i hand-wrote every single tag in notepad. no css even, just raw html tables and like 6 animated gifs of spinning skulls. that was REAL web dev haha. nowadays i write go for work but honestly a static html page with no js will always feel more honest to me than whatever react monstrosity ppl are shipping. bookmarked this, keep it goin!
Name:
~*pixelkat*~
Date: July 15, 2026
Just finished my first homepage last night and I'm so happy it's just plain HTML and a couple gifs. No frameworks, no javascript, just vibes. This directory rules!!
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David
Date: July 14, 2026
Love this directory. Webrings and link pages were honestly the best way to discover things online. You found stuff that was genuinely weird and interesting because a real person picked those links, not an algorithm. I maintain a small link page on my own site and people tell me they appreciate it more than anything else I've built. A plain HTML page with a list of good links will always beat a bloated React app that does the same thing but slower.
Name:
~*starla*~
Date: July 13, 2026
Just spent like two hours clicking through this directory and found a whole section of hand-coded shrines dedicated to old video games. Someone made a full walkthrough site for Myst with their own screenshots and everything, hosted on Geocities-style pages with starfield backgrounds. I almost cried. This is how the internet is supposed to feel. Bookmarked about 30 sites tonight. Thank you for keeping this alive!
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~*sunflower_kate*~
Date: July 12, 2026
found this place through a link on somebody's geocities-style page and i've been clicking around for like two hours now. i forgot how good it feels to just... browse. no algorithms deciding what i see, no engagement metrics, just people making weird little pages about stuff they love. social media turned the internet into a mall but places like this remind me it used to be a neighborhood. anyway im bookmarking this immediately, thank you for keeping this alive!!
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Mika R.
Date: July 11, 2026
OH MY GOD A GUESTBOOK!!! I literally squealed when I saw the link!! I haven't signed one of these since like 2003 on my friend's Geocities page about hamsters!! I'm an illustrator and I've been making pixel art buttons and 88x31 banners for fun lately and this whole directory is making my heart SO FULL!! Every link I click is a treasure!! Thank you for keeping this alive, I'm bookmarking everything!!!
Date: July 10, 2026
hiii!! i just found this site and i literally love it so much ^_^ i started getting into old web stuff like 6 months ago and now i have my own site!! its mostly about my art and my cat and i have a music page with all my favorite albums. i taught myself html from scratch and its honestly so fun making stuff look exactly how YOU want it instead of just posting on social media. anyway this directory is awesome, adding so many sites to my bookmarks rn =D
Name:
pixelwright
Date: July 9, 2026
Nothing beats opening a .html file in notepad and just building something from scratch. No frameworks, no build steps, just you and the tags. This directory rules.
Date: July 9, 2026
Hey!
Found your site while browsing the indie web and just wanted to say I love the retro layout It's so refreshing to see people still building handcrafted corners of the internet.
I run a little project too: TETRIOWORLD (https://tetrioworld.com) . It's a browser Tetris game built with vanilla JS, zero dependencies, 9 visual themes, procedural sound design. Hand-coded for fun, no frameworks.
Thanks for keeping the old web alive!
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Kevin M.
Date: July 8, 2026
honestly i stumbled on a geocities archive a few months ago and it hit me like a ton of bricks. i used to spend hours just clicking through peoples homepages when i was like 12, reading about their cats and their favorite x-files episodes. everything felt so genuine back then. nobody was trying to build a brand, they just wanted to share stuff they liked. finding this directory reminded me why i fell in love with the internet in the first place. gonna try making my own page again soon
Name:
asccigcc
Date: July 8, 2026
I love this place; it is just the perfect spot to remember my young days.
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Emily
Date: July 7, 2026
omg i just found this site like 2 weeks ago and its literally what got me into making my own page!! i have a site about my cat Biscuit and also i collect stamps which i know sounds boring but its actually really cool lol. i taught myself html from looking at page sources of sites i found here. still figuring out how to make the background tile right but im getting there. anyway thanks for keeping this directory going its so much better than modern social media imo
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karen
Date: July 6, 2026
just found this directory and ive been clicking through sites for like two hours now. i run a little page about pressed flowers and its so much more fun than posting on instagram where nobody sees anything unless you pay. on my site i can just put stuff up because i want to, no algorithm deciding if my hobby is worth showing to people. the old web felt like everyone had their own little room and you could just wander around visiting. i miss that so much. glad places like this still exist
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James
Date: July 5, 2026
I got into the retro web thing after spending a weekend trying to set up a Next.js blog and realizing I needed 400MB of node_modules just to display some text on a screen. Opened up a blank HTML file, typed a few tags, and had something online in minutes. It felt like coming home to something I never actually experienced the first time around. This directory is wonderful. Bookmarked and I plan to visit every single link.
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~*jelly_bean_mike*~
Date: July 4, 2026
hey just wanted to say i found the coolest geocities-style shrine to old calculator watches through this directory and i nearly lost my mind. someone out there cataloged like every single casio model from the 80s with scanned manual pages and everything. reminds me why i love the web honestly. anyway my own site is about vintage lunchboxes so i totally get the obsession haha. keep this directory going its a goldmine!!
Date: July 3, 2026
Showing my kids this site and they cannot believe we used to surf the web like this! Does anyone else remember making those little 88x31 button banners to trade links with other sites? I spent HOURS in MS Paint making those. My 12 year old said it looked 'kinda cool actually' so maybe there's hope for this generation lol. Love this directory, bookmarked it!
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Anon
Date: July 3, 2026
I'm going to be real with you it is way too obvious the summaries are AI written. I don't hate the idea but it is absurd looking at my own site and seeing a summary that has very little to do with the site if you actually... look at it.
Date: July 2, 2026
Hi there! Fabulous site; so cool to catalog all of these neat websites that make the internet worth surfing in 2026.
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steve
Date: July 2, 2026
man this site makes me so happy. i used to spend hours just clicking through peoples homepages back in the day, everyone had their own weird little corner with their favorite colors and midis playing and pages about their cats or whatever obscure thing they were into. nobody was trying to build a brand, they were just making stuff because it was fun. the web felt like a million bedroom walls covered in posters. i miss that so much. glad places like this still exist
Name:
handcoded_hero
Date: July 1, 2026
Oh wow, I haven't signed a guestbook in YEARS. This genuinely made my day. I've been hand-coding sites since like 2001 and there's something so satisfying about a simple form that just lets you leave a little note. No algorithms, no engagement metrics, just people saying hi. Love this directory, bookmarked it immediately!
