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Behold, my bookshelf of webbed sites. For best effect, read these in a candlelit chamber with a blanket and a warm drink. This is a personal collection, and not an exhaustive list. These are things I consistently use. For extra retro zeal, they're not catergorised by function, tags or anything like that. This is more a collection of hypertext curiosities, with an obligatory spooy lean.
I find these links through hours of link-hopping, crawling, scuttling, and being a bit of a Fraidycat. I give further credit to Lutzbug for taking some of the excess off my paws; as a policy we don't host the same links as to keep things extra interesting for you readers. So if some truly ancient stuff is on the agenda, please by all means check them out!
The Magazine rack
| Title | Summary |
|---|---|
| A Guide to Web Curation | A guide on how to sort your link pages for maximum efficiency. |
| AI Bores | AI, while useful for some, flattens creative expression. |
| Anti-Intellectual Tech | Technology is increasingly used to keep people away from mesningful learning. |
| Block ChatGPT with robots.txt | How to block LLMs from scraping your website. |
| Blog: More Pull | You're more interesting than you think you are. |
| Dan Luu on SEO Spam | A discussion on the deluge of SEO. |
| Design Tenets of my Website | If I had to summarise why a lot of old sites feel that way, it would be this article. |
| Fire Exits | Websites need easy means of exit when they fail. |
| A Guide to Web Curation | A guide on how to sort your link pages for maximum efficiency. |
| His Virus Ness: Long Live the Interwebz | Things don't die if you put effort into them. |
| IndieWeb Does Not Need to Take Off | The Indieweb does not need mainstream approval to thrive. |
| In the Beginning, Slop | The concept of "Slop" is more versatile than its typical meaning. |
| Linkrot, or Website Existentialism | A very heartfelt essay on the mortality of websites, and how to make the most of their losses. |
| Stop Generating, Start Thinking | Make AI code with you, not for you. |
| The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette | A decades' old guide on Internet manners. |
| Now We Are Six | Rejecting AI based off its public image alone is impractical. |
| Oliver Burkeman: The River | Learn to move more leisurely through your To-Read list. |
| Permacomputing (Viznut, archived) | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Real Life Mag: The Great Offline | "The Wilderness" and "The Offline" are similar concepts with similar logical fallacies. |
| The Public Domain | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| The Slow Web | A call for a slower, more intentional internet experience. |
| Taming the Mammoth | Don't worry about what people think of you. |
| The Death of DeviantArt | A post-mortem on deviantART, its dearth of a successor and the anti-intellectualism of contemporary artists online. |
| This Page is Designed to Last | How to make your webpages last for years at a time. |
| TorrentFreak | An online publication on torrenting and piracy. |
| The Trouble with Wilderness | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| The Website Obesity Crisis | Contemporary websites are bloated and inefficient. |
| Why I Release Things into the Public Domain | One webmaster's list of reasons to foreit copyright. |
| William James's Advice | A general list of life advice. |
| YOU are the Dead Internet | If it's not the robots, it's us making the internet so dull in places. |
| You Are Not Late | You're just in time to do things online. |
The Shelf
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| 98.css | A stylesheet modelled off Windows 98's UI. |
| 16colors | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| 100 Rabbits | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| 2bit | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| The A11Y Project | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| AdorkaStock | A deviantART pose-reference darling with a wide array of models. |
| Adventuron | An in-browser text-adventure program that's friendly to newcomers and has generous documentation. |
| Animal Photo Art References | A selection of posable animal skulls for artistic reference. |
| Animal Photo Reference Repository | A personal gallery of zoo animals, photographed for artistic reference. |
| Anticopyright | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Ardalambion | Text-heavy guides on J.R.R. Tolkien's conlangs, which specialises in his Elvish Quenya. |
| Bash Archive | An extremely funny archive of IRC chatlogs. |
| BearBlog | A tiny blogging website with no ads, algorithms or comment sections. |
| Blood Wiki | A wiki for the 1997 first-person shooter and its sequel. |
| Bogleech | A site that celebrates all things monstrous, grotesque and halloween-ish, complete with its very own monster bestiary. |
| Calibre | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Calligraphr | A site that lets you create custom fonts from your own handwriting. |
| Cats on Routers | A gallery of cats sitting on internet routers, simply because they can. |
| Catppuccin | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Chat IRC quote database | Another funny archive of IRC chatlogs. |
| Classic Horror | The remains of an old horror-movie review website, kindly kept online as an archive. |
| Colossal Cave Adventure | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Contemporary Home Computing | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Copyfree | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Creepy Link | Turns your links freaky. |
| CSS Tabs with Default Open Tab | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Diablo Wiki | A wiki for the progenitor action-fantasy title and its first sequel. |
| Diagram Website | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Dinosaur Dracula | A site that reviews 80s to 90s media with a playful style and a spooky lean. |
| Dracula Theme | The beloved dark-theme used in many a program, and also the inspiration behind this site's colour scheme. |
| Dwellings | A procedural generator of tiny homes and their floor-plans. |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Enigmatriz | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Esolang | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Esoteric Codes | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Europeana | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| File Garden | A file hosting tool for your browser. |
| Fraidycat | A browser extension and software that lets you follow people from afar. It's like social media without the pain and suffering. |
| Free Nature Stock | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| FUNGI | A gallery of user-submitted ASCII fungi and other such whimsical things. |
| Ghost Archive | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Goodbye Domains | Eulogies for dead domains, overly ambitious projects and other cyberghosts. |
| Good Internet Magazine | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Grimgrains | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Gwil's Internet Time | A website that tells you what swatch time it is. |
| Halloween Collector | A collector of vintage Halloween decorations discusses his decades-long journey through the hobby. |
| Halloween Retrospect | A 600+ and still-growing collection of vintage Halloween ephemera. |
| Hello World Collection | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| The Hermitary | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Homebrew Server Club | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| How to Raise a Dragon | Play as a captured dragon that breaks free and turns the tables on its humans, or doesn't, because you can decide! |
| IFDB | A catalog for the Interactive Fiction genre of video games. |
| Interactive Fiction Wiki | A wiki for the Interactive Fiction genre, the "GET LAMP" sorts. |
| John Doe Layout | My favourite one-page website layout, all on one HTML file. |
| Kalechips Layouts | A variety of accessible, mobile-friendly layouts with a web 2.0 touch. I'm currently using its Fun with Flexbox layout. |
| Killed by Google | A cemetery of failed Google products. |
| Kitten War | A site for voting on the cutest kittens. |
| KittyToy | Run a virtual cat shelter and give stray cats a loving home. |
| Limegreen Wikitable | A wiki layout for your character listing needs. I use this for Dancing with the Dead's wiki pages. |
| Linkrot, or Website Existentialism | A very heartfelt essay on the mortality of websites, and how to make the most of their losses. |
| Lot Rem Ipsum | Give it to them raw and wriggling. |
| Low Carbon Software | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| The Met Collection | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Monster Breeder | A choose-your-own-adventure where you capture and breed monsters to make grisly hybrid things. |
| Monster Match | A Space-Invaders clone where you match monsters to blast them. |
| mortem | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Netsplit | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Neurodiversity Design System | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Notepad++ | A simple coding program that offers a bit more than doing everything in Notepad. |
| oneko.js | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Owlhari Image Gallery | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Party Cemetery | A Space Funeral-like game where you attend a monster party and collect autographs of its most famous guests. |
| Permacomputing | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| PETSCII Fireplace | A screensaver that's a virtual fireplace, complete with toggles for particle effects and music. |
| Petrapixel's Layout Generator | A layout generator with lots of things to customise. I used this on a previous version of my Dungeon Keeper 2 Shrine. |
| Petz Site Directory v2 | A directory of websites in the Petz modding scene. |
| Petz Wiki | A wiki for the PFMagic Petz titles and their modding scenes. |
| Pomodoro | An in-browser version of the famous timer. |
| Pose Search | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Powder | A childhood favourite where you play with various chemicals, liquids, and powders. |
| Procgen Mansion | A procedural generator of not so tiny homes and their floor-plans. |
| ProtonVPN | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Qbittorrent | My torrent client of choice. |
| Rarebit | A JavaScript display for webcomics. Word of advice though, use it for small, completed webcomics. |
| Read Time | Gives you the time it takes to read any plaintext you show it. |
| Ritual Dust | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Same Energy | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Scooby Museum | A collection of Scooby-Doo things, from the expected to the oddly specific. |
| Shellsharks Scroll | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Slashpages | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Sounds of the Forest Soundmap | An interactive sound map of the world's forests. |
| Space Funeral | The famous horror-surrealist game where you, a man in pyjamas, set off with your horse made of legs to save the world. |
| Spawn-a-Neko | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| Stone Story ASCII Tutorial | LOREM IPSUM TEXT GOES HERE |
| The Gallery of Monster Toys | A 90s-style site for midcentury monster toys. |
| Tolkien Gateway | A wiki for J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy epic and the rest of its world. |
| TombZone | Make your own ASCII tombstones. |
| Unicorn and Butterfly | A webcomic made entirely from ASCII. |
| W3schools | The premier site for code tutorials for HTML, CSS, Javascript and more. |
| Waterfox | A fork of Firefox and my main desktop browser. |
| WebGL Fluid Simulation | I love this one. |
| Wikimedia Commons | Wikipedia's image galleries and a viable source of artistic reference. Just mind all the oddly-specific sections. |