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List o' Links (Recent additions)

A curated list of old-school, non-commercial, hand-made websites in the 90s vernacular. Survivors of the Web As It Once Was, and sites that preserve the spirit of it.

See the full List o' Links here. Now with tags and descriptions!

Here are the five most recent links:

multicians.org
A comprehensive compendium of historical materials relating to the Multics operating system. Site has been in development since 1994 and is comprised of "487 HTML files ... 1794 PDF files, and 662 graphic images."
date added: 2024-07-20

Discmaster
It's back! Experimental website to browse and search vintage computer files from archive.org. Thousands of new files are added daily. Added 2022-10-20, removed 2023-06-26, re-added 2024-07-19:
date added: 2024-07-19

The Republic of the Resort
Web site of a geek house in Santa Cruz, that lasted from 1992 to 1997. While you're there you can pose a question to the Mystical Head of Bob. Ah, for the days when a random geek house could land the domain "resort.com".
date added: 2024-06-22

The Old Calculator Web Museum
Dedicated to preserving and documenting old calculators, primarily of the electronic variety, and secondarily of the electro-mechanical. Curated by Rick Bensene, indexed by date and manufacturer.
date added: 2024-06-09

Files in /:
Some ASCII Art cows
date added: 2024-06-02

See the full List o' Links here.

The ten most recent additions are available in a handy RSS format.

A few links have been removed since I started this project, see the List o' Broken Links for details.

Other People's Bookmark Lists, Etc.

• Curlie
  The successor to/continuation of dmoz (see next entry) Curlie aspires to be the largest human-edited directory of the Web. It is run by volunteer editors.
• Open Directory Project
  An archive of the well-known community-sourced hierarchical DMOZ web directory. Begun (as GnuHoo) in 1998, it ceased operation in 2017 after some years of fairly minimal maintenance. Although many (most?) of the links are broken, you can still find some interesting things here.
• The Retro Network
  A website dedicated to providing links and downloads for old computers. Limited bandwidth? Computer can't quite manage HTTPS? These links are for you.
• Marginalia - Search the Internet
  "This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed."
• datagubbe.se
  A bookmark list maintained by Carl Svensson: "Most of the links are to pages interesting to people who, like me, are fascinated by vintage computing and also probably a bit grumpy."
• 404PageFound
  So, pretty much the same idea as my "List o' Links" here but begun twelve years earlier and with a much nicer gallery style presentation. Interestingly, a number of the sites are the same as the ones I've stumbled across while looking for links to add to my list. I'll keep updating the "List o' Links" though as 404PageFound does not seem to be actively maintained anymore.
• tekk.in directory
  Also the same idea as my "List o' Links". I'm beginning to think I'm not as original as all that. In any case, the tekk.in directory has links to a lot of great sites that have somehow eluded me up to now, so check it out!
• Gossip's Web the directory of handmade web pages
  Websites made by people
• Low Tech Webring Directory
  "This webring is for homepages of people who are interested in low tech, small game tools, and other forms of Web 1.0 inspired creativity"