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.
The ten most recent additions are available in a handy RSS format!
cats classics coffee comics commodore computers cooking cpm culture cutlery cyberpunk cycling dance dec documentation electronics fandom film fish food games geekhouse geometry gopher graffiti hacktivism history hoaxes homepages horror humour hypertext infosec internet languages libraries literature mac media memorials music networks oldserver painting photography physics places plato poetry programming pulps radio recipes retro robotics scifi search situationism slack software stamps startrek sunsite surrealism sysadmin tandy technology telegraph theatre topology travel tv unix war web writing 14 sites tagged with canadian. [Show all sites]
Friends of CRC
The Communications Research Centre (CRC) is the Government of Canada's applied research centre for advanced telecommunications. Established in 1994, the Friends of CRC is "an association of CRC alumni and others who have an ongoing interest in the well-being and public image of CRC, as well as in social and technical activities." Lots of great historical information about the development of telecommunications in Canada.
date added: 2025-02-23
tags: networks electronics radio
Vispo - Langu(im)age
Interactive, visual and sound poetry by Jim Andrews, a net artist based on Canada's west coast. On the web since 1996 and continuously updated and added to. There's a lot here! Check out the restoration of bpNichol's First Screening, concrete poetry for the Apple IIe.
date added: 2025-01-19
tags: poetry art
The Prufrock Papers
Subtitled 'A Hypertext Resource for "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"', a creative use of hypertext as a medium for explicating the intertextuality of Eliot's classic early 20th century poem. Requires frames, works best in Netscape 3.0 or higher.
date added: 2024-11-10
tags: poetry hypertext
Centronian BBS
A Commodore 64 BBS running on a real C64, in Victoria BC. Update Sept 16 2024: It's back after over a year offline! Originally added 2022-01-06, then removed 2023-03-24.
date added: 2024-09-16
tags: computers bbs retro commodore
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.
date added: 2023-06-21
tags: games mac
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
Euclid's Elements of Geometry
Euclid's Elements in multiple editions plus guides and commentary. Some of the links are broken, but a surprising number still work. Found on the UBC SunSITE, which is worth a visit itself.
date added: 2022-12-03
tags: geometry sunsite
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
The Electronic Labyrinth
When hypertext was a cool new literary medium (1993 or thereabouts)
date added: 2022-04-15
tags: literature art writing hypertext
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
Chris Siebenmann's home page
Chris Siebenmann is a Unix Herder who works at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. His blog mainly covers interesting topics in systems administration.
date added: 2022-02-14
tags: computers sysadmin blog
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
Madrona Grove
Brent Hilpert's retro computing, radio & electronics projects. Amazing stuff. Lots of great documentation!
date added: 2022-01-05
tags: computers electronics radio retro
Chebucto Community Net
Download some old software (Apple, Amiga, DOS, OS/2, Windows, etc) from a venerable Community Net in Nova Scotia. Looking for Netscape 1.1N for X11R6? Find it here.
date added: 2022-01-04
tags: software retro