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jdd's List o' Links

A curated list of web sites of the old-school: mostly non-commercial and all hand-made, survivals of the Web As It Once Was. And sites that preserve the spirit of it.

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23 sites tagged with art. [Show all sites]

UbuWeb
"Founded in 1996, UbuWeb is a pirate shadow library consisting of hundreds of thousands of freely downloadable avant-garde artifacts." The site is no longer updated as of 2024, but is being maintained as an archive.
date added: 2024-02-28
tags: art music surrealism poetry dance film writing

Sniggle.net: The Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia
A unique and fascinating compendium formerly entitled "Trolls, Hoaxes, Culture Jamming, Poetic Terrorism, Media Hacks, Frauds, Impostors, Spoofs, Counterfeits, Fakes, Pranks, Scams, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds", which should give you a pretty good idea of what you can expect to find here. Brought to you by David Gross.
date added: 2023-05-27
tags: art surrealism hoaxes hacktivism

City Creator
Build cities out of modular blocks in your browser! A joint project by Denise Wilton and Cal Henderson from the early oughts.
City Creator gif
date added: 2023-03-18
tags: art games

JM's World War One Sketchbook
"The images presented on this website are from a set of two World War One sketchbooks archived in the University of Victoria's Special Collections Library. They contain approximately 130 water-colour and pen and ink images which were produced by a British soldier based in France and Belgium between 1917 and 1918."
date added: 2023-02-17
tags: history war art

253: a Novel for the Internet in Seven Cars and a Crash
"This site is the original 1990s encoding of the prize-winning hypertext novel 253: A NOVEL FOR THE INTERNET IN SEVEN CARS AND A CRASH. The internet version and the book 253 THE PRINT REMIX went on to win the Philip K Dick Award for Best SF Novel not published in hardback." Add, may I add, this site is totally awesome and you should check it out for sure. A great use of hypertext as a literary medium.
date added: 2023-01-15
tags: literature hypertext art scifi

KUNSTRADIO
"This is the site of the ORF KUNSTRADIO from Vienna, Austria. Artworks for radio and WWW on air and on line - NEW every Sunday." Online since 1995. One of the two "cooperating hubs" for the annual celebrations of Art's Birthday in the imaginary city of Wiencouver.
date added: 2023-01-07
tags: art radio

Colossal Cave Adventure Page
All about the OG text adventure game. History, source code, and everything you ever wanted to know about the magic word XYZZY.
date added: 2022-08-23
tags: literature art software games

Contemporary Home Computing
A webzine by net artists Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied. Fascinating essays and art projects about net culture and the unnecessary overcomplication of the web. If the List o' Links needed a scholarly justification, this would pretty much be it.
date added: 2022-07-18
tags: art culture web

The West Coast Foundation for Modern Art
Chronicles a group of beatnik/surrealist artists, musicians, and poets based in Vancouver BC, from their heyday in the 60s and early 70s up to modern times.
date added: 2022-07-09
tags: art painting music surrealism poetry

Sensitive Research (SR-IX)
Tom Jennings is an artist and the creator of FidoNet. This is his website. Lots of great tech, computing, and music history here.
date added: 2022-07-02
tags: technology computers history music electronics art

The Musical World of Rocky Horror
A rather extensive inventory of musical recordings relating to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Also includes reviews and photos. This is the old site, traverse the directory tree upwards to see its (somewhat) more modern incarnation.
date added: 2022-06-26
tags: music art fandom

ASCII Art Dictionary
A wonderful collection of ASCII Art curated, and in part created, by Andreas Freise. Also contains how-tos and many other ASCII art resources. Site appears to date from 1997-2005, with minimal updates in recent years.
date added: 2022-06-05
tags: art

Floodgap
Cameron Kaiser's "personal repository for information technology research, historical computing research, and open source software", among many other things. A unique and valuable resource!
date added: 2022-05-16
tags: computers retro gopher history biology art commodore

Art.Net
"This is a virtual space where artists join together in sharing their art with others on the Internet." One of the earliest shared artists' spaces on the Web, established 1994 and still being updated as recently as 2018. Over 450 artists working in a variety of media. A trove of 1990s web design!
date added: 2022-05-13
tags: art photography painting writing poetry

The Interactive Fiction Archive
"Since 1992, the Archive has collected thousands of text adventures, text adventure development tools, articles, essays, hint files, walkthroughs, jokes, and sly references to Greek politics."
date added: 2022-05-06
tags: writing art literature software games

The Birdhouse Arts Collective
An archive of 1990s-era web art
date added: 2022-04-20
tags: art writing

The Electronic Labyrinth
When hypertext was a cool new literary medium (1993 or thereabouts)
date added: 2022-04-15
tags: literature art writing hypertext

https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/
Jamie Zawinski's mid-90s proto-blog
date added: 2022-04-1
tags: art music computers blog

The NorMill
Home page of Norman White, a pioneering Canadian electronics/robotics artist. Temporarily removed 2024-02-04 as the site was down, re-added 2024-02-11.
date added: 2022-03-12
tags: art electronics robotics homepages

ACME Laboratories
"Purveyors of fine freeware since 1972. On the net since 1991." Graphics, Unix, Networks, Fun.
date added: 2022-03-10
tags: art programming

textfiles.com
"What this site offers is a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) allowed them. The focus is on mid-1980's textfiles and the world as it was then, but even these files are sometime retooled 1960s and 1970s works". Brought to you by the indefatiguable Jason Scott.
date added: 2022-02-12
tags: art writing bbs history software

Drop-D, Vancouver's Music Magazine
Vancouver's club music scene in the mid-late 1990s, preserved in aspic.
date added: 2022-01-10
tags: music art

Duramecho's Miscellany
"A small but eclectic collection of miscellaneous information that might be of use or of interest to someone somewhere, possibly." Come for the info on C pointers, stay for the Morris dancing.
date added: 2022-01-03
tags: computers programming food dance art photography