~ Early Web Links ~

OH MAN i literally got chills scrolling through this directory. its like 2001 again!! ive been saying for YEARS that personal sites would come back and people looked at me like i was nuts. but here we are!! everyone got so tired of posting into the social media void and now ppl are building their own little corners again. i started redoing my site last month, added a whole new shrines section lol. bookmarking this page immediately, thank u for putting this together <333

ok i just spent like an hour clicking through links on here and it reminded me SO much of staying up late in like 2001 following webrings from one site to the next ^_^ people really don't appreciate how good link pages were. you'd find the COOLEST stuff that way, just random people's pages about their hobbies or their cats or whatever. no algorithm, just vibes and curiosity. webrings were the real social network tbh. anyway this directory rules, keep it up!! :) :) bookmarked!!

heya! i'd love it if you could create an rss feed for your site, esp the "blog of the week" portion. some instructions on that at https://aboutfeeds.com/ or wikipedia about "RSS"

Just finished my first homepage last night and I'm SO stoked that people are actually doing this again!! Found this directory at like 2am and I've been clicking through sites for hours lol

just found this directory like 2 weeks ago and ive been going through it nonstop. somebody had a whole page dedicated to collecting screenshots of old geocities pet pages?? like pages people made FOR their cats and hamsters in 1998. i almost cried it was so good. anyway i just started my own site and this place has been such a huge inspiration for figuring out what i want to do with it. bookmarked like 40 links already lol

Hello! I found the link to your site this morning on MetaFilter and was absolutely delighted to find my Government Cats and Riot Dogs page listed! Out of all the pages on my website, that one is my favorite so I hope it gets some more eyes on it.  I love your site and am so glad that these echos of the Old Web are being gathered up. Like I found when I started my website, the Old Web never went away, you just have to look a little harder.

So glad I found this directory! I just started rebuilding my personal site after years of only posting on social media and honestly it feels so good to have my own little corner again. Mine's mostly a scrapbook of things I love, book reviews, photos from hikes, a page dedicated to my cat. Very much giving 2003 energy and I'm not sorry about it. Thanks for keeping this list going!

This is incredible. Thank you for giving some hope back to the internet!

Thank you so much for this directory. It is truly incredible!

Just found this directory and I'm so glad places like this exist!! I started my neocities site a couple months ago after getting burned out on twitter and instagram. Everything on social media feels like performing for an algorithm now, you know? Nobody's making stuff for FUN anymore. On the old web you could just... make a weird page about your favorite anime or put blinkies everywhere and nobody cared about metrics. I missed that so much even though I barely got to experience it as a kid. Now

Hi! I run a little site dedicated to lichen identification and photography. Mostly focused on species I find in the Pacific Northwest, with a photo gallery sorted by substrate type and some field notes. I've been hand-coding it since 2019 and it's honestly my favorite hobby. So glad directories like this still exist. I found three new sites to bookmark today just browsing through here. Signing the guestbook felt mandatory!

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!!