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Wetfish
"A crystalline anarchy, a direct democracy with Rachel as your benevolent baby sitter." "There is nothing to find here but the undying vacuum more commonly known as friendship." Take from that what you will.
retroweb, personal, wiki, web, gifs
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Solid Grind
A website dedicated to soaping. Tons of old pictures and videos on here
coolweb, soaping, retroweb
Added by uelen
Craig O'D's Cheap Pages
A profoundly personal website, this is "A pre-blog blog" around the interests of the eponymous Craig O'D. It covers a variety of topics including: cheap guitars, Chinese Lugsails, plywood boats, tube amps, and Wanda the Cat. Check it out.
boats, personal, diy, retroweb
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2bit
A personal site all about 2-bit graphics. The kind of fun retro site that's just about someone's personal interests, with no ulterior motives or inventives (though there is a web store selling their designs {which are really cool!}). There are lots of little easter eggs all over the site, so it's quite fun to explore.
personal, design, retroweb
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tildeverse
The homepage for tildeverse, a loose association of tildes. Tildes are public unix systems, like sdf.org below, though the tilde movement is much more recent. They have an irc network and a mumble server, and links to many other tilde communities, as well as a many other services and projects that are tilde-related.
retroweb, tilde, culture, open source
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The SDF Public Access Unix System
Established 1987, this is the homepage of a community of people who all share accounts on the same Unix system. There is email, a minecraft server, web hosting, gopher hosting, chat, and countless other activities. It's essentially a tildetown from long before the tilde movement.
retroweb, web, communication
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WWWTXT
An archival project that mines the records of the internet from 1980 to 1994, picking out insightful excerpts of 140 or fewer characters.
art, retroweb, virtual desktop, culture, media, web, archaeology
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Cern's World Wide Web
A web-based port of Tim Berners-Lee's original web browser and WYSIWYG editor. An awesome sight into what started the web, and inspires us to think about what might have been and could still come to be.
virtual desktop, retroweb, web
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Nightwave Plaza
A virtual desktop radio, much like Poolside.FM. Not as many desktop features, but a sweet Windows 95 aesthetic and cool video backgrounds, typically taken from anime.
web, virtual desktop, music, retroweb
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MySpace
A clone of early myspace
web, social, retroweb
Added by uelen
Mx. van Hoorn's Cabinet of Hypertext Curiosities
Much like Terra, this is a web directory of neat links. Some stuff I've seen before, but nothing too popular or obvious, and everything is high quality. Still updated, so check back!
personal, web, retroweb, discovery
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Broider
A small lo-fi tool for making 9-patch borders. Draw that you want, and then copy the CSS to your own page for neat retro style.
art, design, web, retroweb
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Orb Farm
A beautiful little game (or maybe art piece?) designed around the experience of building a small aquarium ecosystem. Styled like those old 'falling sand' games, this is surprisingly peaceful, and you'll be surprised at how sad you feel when the page reloads and your fish are gone. It's ok though - you can rebuild.
web, retroweb, design, virtual desktop, art
Added by reed
Cameron's World
Cameron's World is a collage made up in the style of an old geocities site. The page is full of gifs arranged by color and style, some leading to geocities pages and some opening fun trinkets. The whole page has a great layout and is fun to explore
geocities, retroweb, discovery, web
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ZineOS
A whimsical online desktop complete with zines, accessories, and games
virtual desktop, emulation, retroweb, design, web, art
Added by uelen
href.cool
A web directory, run by Kicks Condor (see below for their website.) A beautifully simple site tracking things that appeal to Kicks Condor's peculiar and wonderful style.
web, culture, art, hackers, tech, personal, media, design, retroweb, directory
Added by reed
~Dennis Havlena
This page covers a really wide variety of DIY musical instruments and instrument modifications. There are tons of short articles on all kinds of instruments including the bagpipes, banjos, guitars, bazoukis, fiddles, hurdy gurdies, drums, a variety of African instruments, and more. Really a wealth of knowledge and inspiration.
personal, music, retroweb, diy
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Peelo Paalu
A massive web directory listing mostly 90s and 2000s sites
web, retroweb, directory, discovery
Added by uelen
wiby
A search engine that only searches static web sites. These are all 2000s-era sites or sites built in the same style
web, retroweb, discovery
Added by uelen
GifCities
A collection of gifs sourced straight from geocities
gifs, retroweb
Added by uelen
Terra