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This is where I link to other websites that I like and
think are worth visiting. Non-English sites are listed in their own
category for each language, as there's less of them than English sites.
Unless stated otherwise, the websites linked here should be usable without JavaScript.
Anime/manga
- Animated Anime Gifs Paranoia - want to put a gif of your favourite anime on your site? You might find it here! There are even gifs from my favourite anime, Ghost in the Shell.
- AniLinks - link directory of sites focused on anime and manga.
- In the Shell - a Ghost in the Shell fansite from 2008, with a design staying true to its cyberpunk aesthetic. Won't render properly without JS, but only uses a bit of JS supported by old browsers, so your old toaster won't explode.
- Electric Sheep - comprehensive Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex fansite with character descriptions, episode overviews and image galleries.
Development resources
At this point I might need to add subcategories O_O
- John December's HTML Station - an HTML tutorial and reference straight out of the 2000s, covering from HTML 2.0 all the way up to 5.
- Sizzling HTML Jalfrezi - another 90s HTML reference and tutorial. A lot of Netscape and IE-specific knowledge.
- W3C HTML Validator - validate your HTML, CSS, Atom, RSS and so on.
- Moving Forth - a series of articles about writing/porting Forth runtime environments in assembly.
- TurboForth - a Forth dialect for the TI-99/4A. Has one of the best string libraries among the Forths I have seen.
- Pan Docs - documents the hardware of the Game Boy and Game Boy Color.
- Learn TI-83 Plus assembly in 28 days - a classic, easy to follow Z80 assembly tutorial focused on the architecture of TI-83+/84+ graphing calculators (not the basic TI-83, which has a different architecture).
- Commodore 64 memory map - exhaustively documented!
- Developer's Home - tutorials for making WAP sites. That's right, the sites for very old phones.
- 6502.org - everything about the MOS 6502, one of the first affordable single-chip CPUs which was used in a lot of microcomputers and consoles in the 80s and is still manufactured to this day! This CPU powered the Commodore 64, NES/Famicom, Atari 2600, 8-bit Atari computers and many more devices. Indispensable site if you want to program a 6502 in assembly.
- Malbolge - the programming language from HELL. The most readable programming language I have ever seen, certainly not write only ;p
- Bit Twiddling Hacks - bitwise operations handy for programming embedded systems and vintage computers.
DIY
Projects in the sites from this section may involve high voltages and hazardous chemicals. Follow at your own risk. I am not responsible for any injuries, property damage or other misfortunes from improperly using the knowledge on the sites in this section.
- Simplifier - technologies like vacuum tubes, telephones, paint, glue, conductive glass, (very weak) solar cells made from raw materials and chemicals.
- Spark Bang Buzz - DIY electronic components. Pyrite diodes, galvanized steel tunnel diodes, magnetic amplifiers and even CRTs and (ultraviolet) lasers!! This site even shows how a simple flame can be used as a triode.
- danyk.cz - lots of DIY electronic circuits, mostly analog. The site has both a Czech and an English version.
Frontends
- Wayback Classic - lightweight Wayback Machine frontend, designed to work on old computers.
- BreezeWiki - ad-free, user-friendly frontend for Fandom wikis. Requires modern JavaScript support.
Gaming
- Archive of the Sealed Gods - a site about the spirituality of Touhou.
- The Cave of Dragonflies - one of the best sites for Pokemon knowledge, also has a blog and webmaster guides!
- idgames - repository of community levels for classic id Software games (mainly 1993 Doom/Doom 2).
- PSXDatacenter - exhaustive database of PlayStation 1, 2 and Portable games.
- Betacraft
- a launcher for very old Minecraft versions, including Indev and
Infdev. Written in Java, resembles the classic official launcher.
- MCArchive - an archive of old Minecraft mods.
Graphics
- 2bit - a site dedicated to Game Boy-style 4-level grayscale (white, light gray, dark gray, black).
- my buttons world - a collection of 88x31 gif buttons.
Link directories
- Coyote's Link Hub - a big directory with a lot of categories and some articles about the Internet. More focused on software and information sites than personal sites.
- RSS List - a directory of websites hosted on Neocities with an RSS/Atom feed.
- Peelopaalu - a directory of random websites, not updated anymore.
Music
Hosting
- Revontulet - very simple free image hosting designed to work on old computers. Up to 4 MB.
Old computers
Operating systems
- NetBSD
- open-source Unix system, actively developed, ported to a lot of
architectures. Will run on almost anything that has a CPU, even a 68k
Amiga or Macintosh.
- OpenBSD - open-source Unix system with a focus on security, derived from the same BSD codebase as NetBSD.
- ReactOS
- open-source Windows recreation effort, aiming for full software and
even driver compatibility. Unstable, but it's steadily improving. Has a
Windows 2000 like UI, focuses on the classic Windows API.
- Haiku
- actively developed open-source BeOS continuation, inheriting its
unique features like the very uniform and lightweight GUI. Surprisingly
usable, with a lot of modern software being ported to it. The 32-bit
version is binary compatible with BeOS.
- FreeDOS - open-source DOS, pretty much fully compatible with MS-DOS. The CD comes with a lot of open source software for DOS too.
- ELKS
- open-source Unix system designed to run on an 8088 IBM PC with 640 KB
of RAM (with all the usual Unix features like multitasking and
multi-user operation). The kernel is based on Linux, but is heavily
stripped down. Doesn't have much software for it, but IT'S UNIX ON AN
8088. Hosted on github, which doesn't work too well in the browser without JavaScript, but can be cloned with git clone.
Personal sites
- cidoku.net
- sinister themed site with flash animations, thoughts about technology
and many other topics, original characters and a lot more cool things.
- Toasty Technology - rants about Internet Explorer and a showcase of 90s GUIs.
- Frutiger Aero Archive
- a site dedicated to Frutiger Aero and other 2000's tech aesthetics.
Has a lot of resources from that era - wallpapers, icons, flash
animations and software!
- Hutch3G - a fun website about 2000s mobile phones and more!
- VHS Overdrive - a site about the internet, technology, games and more with an aesthetic inspired by amber monochrome CRTs.
- A. N. Lucas's Web Lounge - has an art gallery, a big collection of 88x31 buttons, some old Windows 9x games, a small HTML tutorial and more.
- Xisuma's Musical Journey - xisumavoid's reviews of music albums, including extreme metal. You likely know him more for his YouTube videos.
Search engines
- Mojeek - independent keyword-based search engine with its own index, based in the UK. Tends to return a lot more little-known sites than bigger engines like Google and is not biased towards commercial sites, surprisingly decent for looking up programming problems too. Sometimes it doesn't return many results, as its index isn't that big and sometimes it mostly returns websites which haven't been updated for a long time. They are against replacing search results with LLM output. Overall, a very promising alternative search engine!
- Wiby - small search engine for independent sites with its own index. Not the engine to use if you need an answer to a specific question, but handy for finding fun websites loosely related to a search.
- Marginalia - another small search engine mainly for independent sites, indexes more sites than Wiby.
- Old'aVista - search engine to find historic websites preserved by the Internet Archive. Designed to recreate the look and feel of AltaVista (a search engine popular in the 90s), has a directory of old sites too.
Software
Videos/animations
- Dagobah - Flash animations, mainly Touhou.
- Cornica - QuickTime videos to watch on your old Mac (or PC).
- Flashpoint Archive - THE archive of Flash animations and games, over 2 terabytes.
Wikis
- Wikipedia - huge collaborately created online encyclopedia. Everyone knows this one, but I'm still linking it because why not?
- Touhou Wiki - wiki full of information about Touhou games, mangas, characters and so on.
- Legacy Portable Computing Wiki - a wiki documenting old phones and PDAs.
- Tekkit Classic Wiki
- knowledge and tutorials for Tekkit Classic, a tech modpack for
Minecraft 1.2.5 which is still very fun and is much lighter than most
modern modpacks.
- Technic Pack WIki - the wiki for Technic SSP (originally just Technic Pack), Tekkit Classic's bigger, single-player only brother.
- DoomWiki - everything about Doom, the Doom engine's inner workings and its source ports.
- Permacomputing - a site about computing in more sustainable ways, including using and maintaining old and/or weak computers.
Polish websites
There aren't many independent Polish websites these days - most shut down with the growth of corporate social media.
- Bogdan Drozdowski's assembly tutorial
- a Polish x86 assembly tutorial almost as old as the internet, but
still a great resource to learn the basics of assembly. Covers assembly
programming for DOS and Linux. Has tutorials for tricky things in
assembly, such as input/output, multiplication and file handling, and a
list of BIOS/DOS interrupts and Linux system calls. Includes a library
to make assembly more convenient. This site gets updated to this day! A
very easy to read, distraction free design.
- Piteusz's website
- the personal website of Piteusz, a Polish YouTuber who makes videos
about old computers. He isn't very active these days, but his old videos
are still very much worth watching. His site has a blog and tutorials
for old computers and has been an inspiration for my site.
- Atariki
- THE Polish 8-bit Atari encyclopedia. Memory maps, graphics modes and a
lot more 6502, ANTIC and GTIA knowledge. I wish the Polish internet had
a Commodore 64 wiki this good T_T
- tanuki.pl - Polish anime/manga review site with a really cool design.
- kursjs.pl - Polish JavaScript tutorial focusing on vanilla JavaScript.
- Weird Science - a huge list of scientific experiments. Chemistry, biology, astronomy, electronics and more. Some experiments may involve hazardous chemicals and I'm not responsible for any injuries, property damage or other misfortune from improperly following them.
Archived websites
Those sites are no longer hosted, but their valuable
knowledge and history has been preserved by Internet Archive's Wayback
Machine.
- 「東洋の魔窟」九龍城砦探検記 (Japanese) - photos of the Kowloon Walled City, the most densely populated human settlement in history, taken in the 1980s before it was demolished.
- Tengwar Feanora (Polish) - a website about tengwar, the alphabet used by elves in Lord of the Rings, and how to write Polish in it!
- Windows Online
(Polish) - 90s/00s resource about Windows 98, 2000 and XP.
Customization tutorials, fun software and so on, even some web design
tips. A great example of early 2000s Polish web design.
- Windows XP Knowledge Base Archive - Microsoft Knowledge Base articles for Windows XP, which were on Microsoft's site a long time ago.
- How to make a good ID in Atom - an article thet explains the "id" element in Atom (the news feed format).
- WirusPC.pl (Polish) - early 00s Polish web magazine about malware.
- kursjs.pl
(2014 version, Polish) - this one is still up and updated, but the 2014
version of this site has some knowledge about making scripts compatible
with old browsers like IE5 and 6 that's no longer in the modern version of this JS tutorial. The older design is also something to behold.

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