Bookmark Shelf
Behold, my bookshelf of webbed sites. Out of all the pages on this site, this one recieves the most of my attention. I'm always doing something here, whether I'm adding new links or replacing dead ones with archive.org URLs.
Many of my lovely webbed sites are old, and at times downright decrepit. But their information is valuable, and they motivate me to stay curious and keep learning. For the best effect, read these in a candlelit chamber. Oh, and add a blanket and a hot drink while you're there.
Articles
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| A Guide to Web Curation | "How to actually do it." |
| Design Tenets of my Website | "When successful, the website shall transmit a feeling of "unknowable depths" to visitors." |
| Five Geek Social Fallacies | "In any event, here are five geek social fallacies I’ve identified." |
| How Websites Die | "Our ghosts could live forever, if we help each other." |
| Linkrot, or Website Existentialism | "A broken link can be a loss but it can also be an opportunity." |
| Mausoleums of The Web | "For most of us though, our posthumous digital footprint will be far less intentional." |
| Mental Health Tips feat.Anxiety Wolf | "Fear is a friend." |
| Not Just Dead, But Gay! Queerness and the Vampire | "The vampire is the queerest of monsters." |
| on writing to exist, and website graveyards | "I believe websites will be future archaeological artefacts." |
| The Access Manifesto | A snippet from the 2002 book, Building Accessible Websites. |
| The Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design | "No list such as this can be complete, but even the original list from 1985, has been well received as a useful guide to students and designers." |
| The silent body horror of vampirism — an outline | "Stasis and transition are at odds with each other." |
| The Slow Web | "Fast Web is about information. Slow Web is about knowledge." |
| This Page is Designed to Last | "It's a small simple step for a complex sociotechnical system." |
| Words | "But the most powerful tool on the web is still words." |
Fun and Games
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| After Dark Screensavers in CSS | CSS emulations of old computer screensavers. |
| Almost Pong | Pong with a twist. |
| ASCII Flow | "Draw" ASCII-art in your browser. |
| ASCII Painter | Another in-browser ASCII maker...this time, with colour. |
| Cats in Sinks | Randomly generated photos of cats nesting in sinks. |
| Cats on Routers | A compilation of cats sitting on routers. |
| Cold Void.com | A spider web. |
| Fungal.page | Fungus. |
| Infinite-Cat | Cats watching cats watching cats watching... |
| Memento Mori | Remembering death in your own browser. |
| Monster Breeder | Breed monsters. |
| Monster Match | Match monsters to kill them. |
| Numbskull | You're helping a skull get back to its body. |
| Powder | Chemical reactions. |
| TombZone | Custom-made ASCII tombstones. |
| Weather Report | An accurate weather checker with fun ASCII pictures. |
| WebGL Fluid Simulation | Colourful fluids. |
| Your World of Text | A virtual whiteboard for people to post anonymously. |
Radio Stations
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Ambient Sleeping Pill | An ambient radio station. |
| Ancient FM | A historical radio station. |
| DarkZone | A dark ambient radio station. |
| My Noise | Mix and match ambient sounds. |
| Radio Garden | Listen to radio stations around the world. |
| Tree.fm | Listen to recordings of forests. |
| Vintage Obscura | An obscure music radio station. |
| World's Radio | Listen to radio stations around the world. |
Tools and Downloadables
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Archive.org | The biggest archive online. |
| Bitsy | A tiny game engine. |
| DAFTPATIENCE's Vintage cat sewing pattern | A tumblr user remakes a midcentury sewing pattern. This is the result. |
| Dither Me This | Lets you dither images. |
| Dracula Theme | A vampiric theme for all sorts of platforms. |
| Fit on a Floppy | Can your website fit on a floppy disk? |
| Fraidycat | Follow websites without having accounts on them. |
| Lorem Ipsum | A website for the famous dummy text, Lorem Ipsum. |
| Moon Phases | Lets you track the lunar phases. |
| Neocities.org | A spiritual sucessor to the original Geocities. |
| oh no im having a bad thought | A quick assistant for your bad thought. |
| Project Gutenberg | The internet's biggest provider of free, public domain e-books. |
| You Feel Like Shit | An interactive guide for self care. |
Websites for reading
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Abandoned Communities | A website dedicated to abandoned living spaces in Britain. |
| Adel Faure | A website full of fonts, games, music, tools and art. |
| Anna's Archive (New!) | An archive of scanned books. I use it to look at Grimtooth's Traps. |
| Ardalambion | A website dedicated to Tolkien's constructed languages. |
| ASCII Art Archive | An archive of ASCII art. |
| ASCII Art Dictionary | Another archive of ASCII art. |
| ASCII Cats | A small site of ASCII cats. |
| ASCII Periodic Table | A periodic table done entirely in ASCII. |
| ASCII Porn | An archive of pornographic ASCII art. |
| Autistic As Fxxk | A website for autistic people worldwide. Also featured me, thanks Rachel! |
| Bite-sized Accessibility | Tiny guides on how to make your website accessible. |
| Blood Wiki | A wiki for the Blood games. |
| Byte Cellar | A blog on retro computing. |
| Capital Punishment UK | A resource about Britain's history with the death penalty. |
| Carneycastle.com | Lego recreations of real medieval castles. |
| Classic Horor | The archives of a horror movie review blog. |
| Common Errors in English Usage | A dictionary of what people wrong about English. |
| Diablo Wiki | A wiki for the first two Diablo games. |
| Dibella Loves Cats | An archive of 1990's cat graphics. Not mobile-friendly. |
| Digitization Wiki | A digital archive of various plants and animals. |
| Dinosaur Dracula | A blog about 1980s nostalgia. |
| Dracula Daily | Get emailed chapters of Dracula as its story unfolds. |
| The Dungeon in Deep Space | A blog about Dungeon Synth. |
| Eldamo | A fanmade lexicon for Tolkien's Elvish language. |
| Etymonline | An archive of etymology since 2000. |
| Foodtimeline.org | A detailed timeline of culinary history. |
| FUNGI | A website full of ASCII mushrooms and other whimsical creatures. |
| Gode Cookery | A network of sites about historical cooking methods. |
| Heraldry of the World | A wiki about Heraldry. |
| IDB ASCII | An archive of ASCII art. |
| iFiction (New!) | An archive of interactive fiction games. |
| Interactive Fiction Wiki (New!) | A wiki for the Interactive Fiction Genre. |
| Internet History Sourcebooks Project | Fordham University's archive of historical texts. |
| Lars Krutak | A blog on tattoo anthropology. |
| Macrostrat | A geologic map database. |
| Medieval Cookery | A database of Medieval and Tudor recipes. |
| Medieval Music and Arts Foundation | A website dedicated to medieval music and art. |
| Medieval Recipes | A website of Medieval recipes. |
| Onelook Thesaurus | An expansive thesaurus. |
| Outlaws and Highwaymen | A website dedicated to Highwaymen. |
| Petz Wiki | An encyclopedia for the Petz series. |
| Popular History Books | A website that reviews british history books. |
| Public Neurodiversity Support Center | An archive of essays for autistic people, especially those with trauma. |
| Project Gutenberg | The internet's biggest provider of free, public domain e-books. |
| QZAP - The Queer Zine Archive | An archive of queer zines |
| Rare Phrases | A list of comically rare phrases. |
| Raumhaufen (Monster in My Pocket section) | A website dedicated to collecting toys and figures. |
| Richard Kennaway's Constructed Languages List | A large list of constructed languages |
| Scooby Museum (New!) | A museum of Scooby Doo merchandise. |
| SerpaDesign | A website of SerpaDesign, an enthusiast of aquariums, terrariums and vivariums. |
| Solution Archive (New!) | An archive of solutions for interactive fiction games. |
| The Dracula Society | A website dedicated to all things Dracula. |
| The Gallery of Monster Toys | A website dedicated to midcentury monster toys. |
| The History of the Web | A timeline of the internet's history. |
| The Medieval Bestiary | A website that serves as a medieval bestiary. |
| The Medieval Pottery Research Group | A website dedicated to medieval pottery vessels. |
| The Phontistery | A glossary of obscure words; going strong since 1996. |
| The Proceedings of the Old Bailey | An archive of London's central criminal court records. |
| The Virus Encyclopedia | An encyclopedia for the all types of malware. |
| Tolkien Gateway | The biggest encyclopedia for all things Tolkien. |
| TYCollector | A website dedicated to TY's Beanie Babies. |
| UKMoths | A website dedicated to to the moths of Great Britain and Ireland. |
| Unicorn and Butterfly | A webcomic made entirely out of ASCII. |
| Vampire Club | A website dedicated to Vampires. |
| Zine Wiki | An encyclopedia for Zines. |
| Zine World | The archives of a Zine review site. |
Website Directories
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Accessible Net Directory | A directory for accessible sites. |
| Gossip's Web | An especially humble directory. |
| LOW TECH WEBRING | A directory for more primitive sites. |
| Marginalia.nu | A search engine for the niche and hidden. |
| Marginalia Similar Website Finder | A search engine that finds similar sites. |
| Nightfall City | A small directory with cosy ASCII style. |
| Olda Vista | A search-engine for sites on old webhosts. |
| Oldest Search | A search-engine for the oldest sites online. |
| Petz Site Directory v2 | A big directory for Petz fansites. |
| Radio-browser | A directory for radio stations. |
| Responsive Web Directory | A directory for responsive sites. |
| Search My Site | A directory for non-commercial sites. |
| The Geocities Gallery | A visual gallery of Geocities sites. |
| Wilby | A search-engine for the oldest sites online. |