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We'd love to hear what you think, what sites you've found, or just say hello.
Name:
~*framekiller_pete*~
Date: June 4, 2026
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!!!
Date: June 3, 2026
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!
Name:
~*cyberpixie*~
Date: June 2, 2026
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!!
Date: June 1, 2026
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!!
Date: May 31, 2026
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.
Name:
Karen
Date: May 31, 2026
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!!
Name:
~*cyb3r_juno*~
Date: May 30, 2026
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!!
Date: May 29, 2026
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.
Name:
Jamie R.
Date: May 28, 2026
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
Name:
handcoded_heart
Date: May 27, 2026
I miss when every website looked different. People just threw whatever they wanted on a page. Weird color combos, tiled backgrounds, blinking text, random link collections. Nobody was trying to optimize anything or follow a design system. You just opened Notepad, wrote some HTML, and put a piece of yourself online. That was the whole point. Directories like this remind me why I still hand-code everything I make. Thanks for keeping the spirit alive.
Date: May 26, 2026
Wow, a real guestbook!! I haven't signed one of these in like 15 years. This rules. No npm install required.
Name:
Sarah
Date: May 25, 2026
hey! found this directory while doing research for my digital culture class and ended up spending like 2 hours just clicking through everyones sites lol. i actually have my own site thats basically a dumping ground for my class notes, music recs, and photos of my cat. its all hand coded html because i wanted to learn how people used to do it and honestly its so much more fun than using squarespace or whatever. anyway great directory keep it going!!
Name:
Dave
Date: May 24, 2026
just spent like 2 hours clicking thru this directory when i should of been sleeping lol. found a whole section of ppl who still make geocities-style pokemon fan pages with custom sprites and tiled backgrounds and midi music. almost cried honestly. this is what the internet was SUPPOSED to be, just ppl making weird stuff bc they wanted to. thx for keeping this going
Name:
~*sparklekat*~
Date: May 23, 2026
ok so i just started my neocities like a month ago and honestly discovering webrings and link pages has been the best part?? like you just click through and find someones page about their cat or their favorite final fantasy game and its so good. algorithms could never. link pages are literally how the internet is supposed to work, just people going hey check out this cool thing i found. anyway this directory rules, found like 5 new sites to add to my links page tonight
Name:
Rachel
Date: May 22, 2026
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!
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Karen
Date: May 21, 2026
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!!!
Name:
~*xstardustcoder*~
Date: May 20, 2026
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!!!
Date: May 19, 2026
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!
Date: May 18, 2026
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 :) :)
Name:
plaintext_pete
Date: May 17, 2026
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.
