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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compost.party
A web server built from a repurposed smartphone running on solar power, situated in the attic of a Berlin apartment building. Its primary purpose appears to be monitoring and documenting its own existence, but it also hosts several home pages.
date added: 2025-05-31
tags: oddserver
Harper's Tale Home Page
The home page for a text-based online role playing game ("MOO"), simulating Anne McCaffrey's Pern from her Dragonriders of Pern books. Online since the 90s, the game server is still accessible via telnet.
date added: 2023-06-10
tags: games oddserver scifi
The Frugal Webserver
A web site running (intermittently) since 2006 on a 386SX-16 built from spare parts. Photos, radio history in Portland OR, gopher server, etc. [Update 2024-06-09: Although it's a little hard to say for sure due to the intermittent availability of this server even when it was still active, it's been down long enough that I fear this time it ain't coming back. But ... [Update 2024-12-02: Hey, I was wrong! It's back again!]]
date added: 2022-03-08
tags: radio gopher history oddserver