jdd's List o' Broken Links

A curated list of links that used to go somewhere interesting, culled from the "List o' Links".

There are 14 web sites listed here.

Public 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! ... no more.
date added: 2025-05-11
date removed: 2026-10-01
tags: art internet hacktivism

The Humanoid Homepage
"A long time ago, in a dodgy Italian studio ... " A fan site celebrating the wonder that is The Humanoid, a 1979 spaghetti space opera starring Richard Kiel.
date added: 2023-11-11
date removed: 2026-09-30
tags: scifi film

The Electronic Labyrinth
When hypertext was a cool new literary medium (1993 or thereabouts). Sorry to see this one vanish from the live web; one of the authors was a friend of mine.
date added: 2022-04-15
date removed: 2026-09-29
tags: literature art writing hypertext

Bolo Home Page
Recently restored to the web by vga256 after a 15 year hiatus, this site provides a comprehensive resource for Bolo, the classic 16 player graphical networked multiplayer Mac tank battle game. After you've finished exploring that, you may want to check out the rest of www.dialup.cafe. Update: Domain appears to have been hijacked, sadly.
date added: 2023-06-21
date removed: 2026-09-28
tags: games mac

Michal's omake: User Friendly archive
An unofficial archive of J.D. "Illiad" Frazer's classic webcomic, brought to you by Michal Sapka. Experience the distilled essence of late-90s geek zeitgeist.
date added: 2024-05-18
date removed: 2026-01-31
tags: comics humour

The Armory's web space
The Armory is (was?) a geek house in Santa Cruz. This is their webserver. It's been around since 1994 so there are many dead links. But hey, it's still running ... On SCO UNIX it says ... can that still be true? Maintained by John DuBois. [As of February 2025 the old geek house site has been replaced with something less interesting, so although the link is not actually broken, it no longer warrants a place on the List o' Links]
date added: 2022-06-25
date removed: 2025-02-14
tags: oldserver puritytest homepages geekhouse

SV HUMOR
A few dozen text files containing corny old jokes, puns and other humourous writings. Apparently a direct-to-HTML copy of a directory on a DEC VAX. Files date from the mid-70s through 1990 or thereabouts.
date added: 2022-08-16
date removed: 2024-09-07
tags: humour puritytest

Collection of Slide Rule replicas
A fine collection of carefully hand-crafted slide rule simulators/emulators, implemented in javascript by Dr. Robert Wolf.
date added: 2023-01-30
date removed: 2024-05-11
tags: sliderules computers

Non commercial travel stories from Douwe
Travel stories, place descriptions and photos, by former airline employee "Douwe Dabbert" (real name Pieter Hendrik de Boer). Bangkok to Zimbabwe, and many places in between. Winner, Best of the Web (Bronze), 2001. Sadly not updated since 2004, when the author passed away.
date added: 2022-09-10
date removed: 2024-02-18
tags: travel

Vistaserv
Vistaserv.net is a grass-roots web hosting initiative hailing from Thornbury, Australia, inspired by the quirky web of the 90s, right down to the pixellated fonts. They allow users to create old-school homepages for free, some fine examples of which are linked from the main page of the site.
date added: 2022-11-25
date removed: 2024-02-17
tags: homepages retro

You Don't Need HTML
Sir Tim lied to you. A really nice use of Unicode for layout rather than HTML markup.
date added: 2022-12-04
date removed: 2024-02-16
tags: humour hypertext unicode

Phil. and Pat. Storr's home page
Detailed descriptions and photos of various hobbies, including a collection of classic radios, a ham shack, model trains, classic cars, and a variety of electronics projects. Also a collection of related technical articles, and check out the PC Hardware Book, current as of 1998 or thereabouts.
date added: 2022-09-03
date removed: 2024-02-15
tags: radio electronics computers homepages

JumpJet.info
A wondrous collection of information relating to Emergency Preparedness, Radio, Internet protocols, gopher, software, games and links to offbeat and interesting sites. In operation from 1992 through May 2023.
date added: 2022-01-01
date removed: 2023-10-01
tags: directories

Archie Query Form
Search FTP servers with the venerable Archie search engine, first developed at McGill University in Montreal! This implementation hosted by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling at the University of Warsaw.
date added: 2022-04-19
date removed: 2023-03-25
tags: ftp search