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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:

Pubic Netbase
As per Wikipedia, "Public Netbase was a cultural media initiative, open access internet platform, media art space, and advocate for the development of electronic art. It was formed in 1994 in Vienna, Austria. It was dissolved in 2006." ... But its web site lives on!
date added: 2025-05-11

Don Knuth's Home Page
Musings, works, updates, links to lectures, etc, from the legendary computer scientist renowned for "The Art of Computer Programming" and TeX (among other things).
date added: 2025-05-03

EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet
Subtitled "A round trip through Global Networks, Life in Cyberspace, and Everything ...", a time capsule of Internet tech and culture as it was in September 1994
date added: 2025-04-26

Floor796
An animated scene showing the lives of various characters inhabiting the 796th floor of a huge space station. Just ... wow. Expansive, whimsical, massively detailed ... A hobby project by one author, begun in 2018, and only half done!
date added: 2025-04-12

The Canterbury Tour
A tour of the City of Canterbury, consisting of over 500 pages, each with a photo and text, all linked to a clickable map. Site originally dates from 1997, with some updates since.
date added: 2025-03-23

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.

 

• 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." Update, January 2025: Note new URL. And wow, this search engine keeps getting better all the time!
• Wiby
  Similar to Marginalia (not sure which came first), another search engine focussing on the academic, personal, hobbyist sites characteristic of the early web. Somewhat more limited in scope than Marginalia, due I think to more rigorous curatorial principles. Strongly favours sites with limited to no JS/CSS, excludes sites with intrusive ads.
• Ytoo!
  A portal site dedicated to "English content with a retro vibe". Looks oddly familiar, somehow ...
• 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.
• 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"