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!
9 sites tagged with retro. [Show all sites]
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
Discmaster
It's back! Experimental website to browse and search vintage computer files from archive.org. Thousands of new files are added daily. Added 2022-10-20, removed 2023-06-26, re-added 2024-07-19:
date added: 2024-07-19
tags: search software retro
MCbx Old Computer Collection
"Here you will find information about old computers, their parts and peripherals. The main objective of this site is to provide information not only about technical specifications of old computers, but also instructions to make an old computer running again as well as how to use the old computers (retrocomputing) and its basic software."
date added: 2023-04-15
tags: computers history retro
The Classic Computer Magazine Archive
Kevin "Kay" Savetz' archive of early computer magazines, including Antic, STart, Creative Computing, Compute!, A.N.A.L.O.G., ST-LOG, Compute II, Tandy Computer Whiz Kids, and more! On the web since 1996.
date added: 2022-07-24.
tags: atari tandy commodore retro
Floodgap
Cameron Kaiser's "personal repository for information technology research, historical computing research, and open source software", among many other things. A unique and valuable resource!
date added: 2022-05-16
tags: computers retro gopher history biology art commodore
Steve's Old Computer Museum
Lots of information about various makes and models of micro-computers manufactured between 1970 and 1993, from the personal collection of Steven Stengal. Handy timeline view!
date added: 2022-05-15
tags: computers history retro
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
Cool, but obscure X11 tools
A small collection of tools for the X Window System.
date added: 2022-01-02
tags: software unix retro