~ Early Web Links ~

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

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 ^_^

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 💖

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

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

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 ^_^

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 ^_^