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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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 10 sites tagged with homepages. [Show all sites]
Trussell.com (formerly EclectiCity)
A website with many sub-sites chronicling the eclectic interests of its creator, the late Stephen (Kepano) Trussell. On the web since 1996, this is what home pages were all about.
date added: 2025-02-01
tags: homepages literature stamps languages
Wendy Carlos Homepage
A site dedicated to "one of the most important composers living today," famous for her pioneering, innovative electronic music and sound design. With lots of great content, both by and about her. On the web since 1996 (originally on a server in John Romkey's house!)
date added: 2024-12-29
tags: music homepages astronomy
Ragged Entelechy
Horror lit, true crime, Patti Smith, Clark Ashton Smith, fragments of a journal, and sharks. Brought to you by Fiona Webster.
date added: 2023-10-08
tags: homepages horror music fish
Stephan's Virtual Shack
Writings on music and audio electronics, shortwave radio and related matters, cameras and scanners, with a fairly technical bent. Also some interesting archival materials on Windows 3.1. The German version contains somewhat more and different content.
date added: 2023-01-02
tags: radio electronics homepages
The Leepers' Homepage
Home pages of Mark and Evelyn Leeper, and their MT VOID sf club newsletter. Movie reviews, book reviews, sf convention reports, travel writings, and more, going back decades ... the Leepers have been at this a long time.
date added: 2022-12-20
tags: scifi homepages fandom film
Simon Tatham's Home Page
Home page of Simon Tatham, a software engineer and free-software author in Cambridge, UK. Best known (to me, anyway) as the author of PuTTY, Simon Tatham has also written numerous other utilities, games, fonts, algorithms and essays, many of which are linked here.
date added: 2022-09-30
tags: unix software homepages programming games
davidbuckley.net
Home page of David Buckley, long-time maker of robots and animatronic systems. Extensive documentation of Buckley's robotics and AI projects, robot history, software, and even some poetry.
date added: 2022-08-13
tags: robotics ai poetry homepages
The Modemjunkie's Portal
Leonard Grossman's home page. Includes an archive of "Reflections of a Modemjunkie", a proto-blog describing adventures on the Internet from 1993 through the turn of the millenium.
date added: 2022-06-09
tags: internet blog homepages
Chez Inwap
Cat pictures, PDP-10 info, and probably everything you'd want to know about ReBoot, the 1990s computer animated television show.
date added: 2022-04-19
tags: cats tv computers homepages
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