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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6 sites tagged with poetry. [Show all sites]
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
The Leonard Cohen Files
A remarkably comprehensive and long-lived fan site devoted to the life and works of everyone's favourite darkly romantic singer/songwriter, poet and novelist. Lyrics, photos, analysis, interviews and lots more.
date added: 2024-04-25
tags: music poetry fandom
UbuWeb
"Founded in 1996, UbuWeb is a pirate shadow library consisting of hundreds of thousands of freely downloadable avant-garde artifacts." The site is no longer updated as of 2024, but is being maintained as an archive.
date added: 2024-02-28
tags: art music surrealism poetry dance film writing
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 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
Art.Net
"This is a virtual space where artists join together in sharing their art with others on the Internet." One of the earliest shared artists' spaces on the Web, established 1994 and still being updated as recently as 2018. Over 450 artists working in a variety of media. A trove of 1990s web design!
date added: 2022-05-13
tags: art photography painting writing poetry