Bookmarks

Introduction

Behold, my bookshelf of spooy webbed sites. For best effect, read these in a candlelit chamber with a blanket and a warm drink.

I find these links through hours of link-hopping, crawling, scuttling, and being a bit of a Fraidycat. I'll also attest to a few rounds with Claude, who covers the contemporary SEO-hellscape side of the net while I hand-curate things from the underground. 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!

Besides what you heard on your way in, note that this is a personal collection, not an exhaustive list. The Magazine Rack displays its finds as bibliographic entries, based off the TavernDweller bibliographic style. From there the bookmark collection uses a more conventional "detailed list" format, as this new book look doesn't go with tables very well.

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Use the contents menu to jump to the main categories, or try out the new index for more specific topics. I have seen plenty of articles on the importance of linking, but none seem to mention the tools used in print. Search bars are javascript-based, and while handy, there is an immense disatisfaction I feel when I've punched in everything I could and recieved nothing. So, the index curbs your disappointment, tells you exactly what to expect and gives you a quick way to scan and see whether or not you'll get anything out of this collection.

"But why link?"

If you're in a place like this, you're probably already well aware. To anybody new in this scene, linking is a valuable part of small-web culture and serves as a direct counter to the homogenisation of the web. To link while other people are content to be fed by algorithms is a sorely-needed skill. To surf is to be here at all, to internet is to be the surfer that stands on the shores and wonders how long the momentum will last. The curiosity that radiates from this figure is what sparks in us, when we realise the reward in seeking things out ourselves, as this place was always meant to do. Away from the warm darkness of a chatroom is the vast ocean blue of a trillion hyperlinks waiting to be clicked.

  1. Cain, David: "How to Surf the Web in 2025, and Why You Should". Raptitude. .
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Index

archives 9, 10, 11

ascii art 8, 11, 15, 16, 31, 32

blogging & writing 3, 4, 5

cats 5, 14, 15, 17

collectives 17, 18

copyright 4, 7, 16

data hoarding 3, 4, 5, 8, 19, 20

dead internet theory 3, 4, 7

directories 15, 31

DOS & emulation 9

dreams 9

dungeon synth 19

environmentalism 4, 6, 15, 16, 29

esolangs 9, 10, 26

folklore & the strange 8, 17, 18

fonts 27, 29

games 8, 9, 10, 13, 14

gardening 6, 12

halloween 8, 9, 17, 30

hermitdom 20

hobbies 6

homelab 25, 26

horror 9, 10, 19

interactive fiction 10, 13

internet criticism 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

IRC 4, 8, 21, 22, 23, 24

linux 4, 24

mental health 7, 8

monsters 9, 13, 14, 17

nature 6, 12, 15, 16, 29

netiquette 5, 23

newsletters 9, 10

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nostalgia 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 17, 30, 31

obituaries 31, 32, 33, 34

open source 18, 20, 23, 25

permacomputing 34

petz 10, 17, 29

pixel art & retro 8, 13, 17

privacy & rights 3, 4, 10, 16

procedural generation 13

programming 11, 25, 26

radio 15

Raspberry Pi 4, 25

RSS 21

Scooby-Doo 9

slow web 5, 7, 8

small web 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 26, 29, 30

solarpunk 31

stuffed animals 7

terminal 4, 8, 19, 20, 23, 24

terrariums 6

Tolkien 10

torrenting 9, 21

toys 7, 11

usenet 9, 31

virtual pets 11, 14, 19

Wayback Machine 33, 34

web accessibility 26, 28, 29

web building 3, 4, 26, 27

webrings 31

website layouts 27, 29, 30

Wikipedia 7

wikis 3, 8, 10, 24, 25

writing in public 5, 7

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The Magazine Rack

  1. Eden, Terence: "A Floppy-Disk Walkman: Using a Raspberry Pi". shkspr.mobi. .
  2. "A Guide to Web Curation". The Wayward Webring.
  3. Hollon, Benjamin: "A Secret Web". blog.clew.se. .
  4. Ananias, Guilherme: "The Awesomeness of Lists". Noghartt's garden. .
  5. Braun, Bryan: "Before You Buy a Domain, Check if it's Haunted". Bryan Braun. .
  6. Fedorin, Danila: "Blog Microfeatures". Daniel's Blog. .
  7. Olson, Jes: "Blogs Rot. Wikis Wait.". j3s.sh. .
  8. Koonin, Sophie: "Building a Website Like It's 1999... in 2022". localghost. .
  9. Awadia, Asad: "Cats, Pi, and Machine Learning". aawadia.dev. .
  10. Dzombak, Chris: "Considerations for a Long-Running Raspberry Pi". dzombak.com. .
  11. Luu, Dan: "Dan Luu on SEO Spam". danluu.com. .
  12. Stimac, Stephanie: "The Death of Curating, the Rise of Curation". blog.stephaniestimac.com. .
  13. "The Death of DeviantArt". torrent-empress. . Re: Torrent Empress - As per the commenters of the original post, this does not address the rampant user-safety issues that made the site infamous. However, it compensates handsomely by denouncing the self-serving nature of so many artists online and explains just why deviantART could be so beautiful.
  14. Flower, Zachary: "Death of the Old Web". flower.codes. .
  15. Balkan, Aral: "Decentralisation Begins at Decentring Yourself". ar.al. .
  16. Bubul, Tom: "Design Tenets of my Website". tombubul.info. .
  17. Voit, Karl: "Digitizing Paper". karl-voit.at. .
  18. Eden, Terence: "Discord is Not Documentation". shkspr.mobi. .
  19. Scott, Jason: "Discord, or the Death of Lore". ASCII by Jason Scott. .
  20. Jatan: "How to Feel at Home on the Internet". journal.jatan.space. .
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Re: Jason Scott - I find it immensely hypocritical that the same people who rely on Discord for everything complain about the internet becoming increasingly closed-off.
  1. Pal, Susam: "IndieWeb Does Not Need to Take Off". Susam Pal. .
  2. "IRC is the Only Viable Chat Protocol". koshka.love. Re: Koshka - The "compartmentalise information appropriately" line from the index was written with him in mind. While I appreciate Koshka's passion and artistry, he's quite right-wing and does not filter himself. I can handle some deviation in personal politics, provided they don't want to start a race war, carry the torch of NAMBLA or insist I'm exploiting the global south by existing. Koshka passes this test, as he's fairly garden-variety and I don't find him very menacing, just another autistic who happens to be very pink.
  3. Sass, Michael: "Just Put It on Your Blog". Shellsharks. .
  4. "Living in the Terminal". sava.rocks. .
  5. Voit, Karl: "Managing Digital Photographs". karl-voit.at. .
  6. Wolf, Michael: "My Floppy Disk Archiving Process". wolfmd.me. .
  7. Shea, Virginia: "The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette". Albion.com. .
  8. Sivers, Derek: "Netizen". sive.rs. .
  9. "Personal Websites Aren't Dead". fLaMEd fury. .
  10. Saint-Andre, Peter: "The Public Domain". stpeter.im. .
  11. Atwood, Jeff: "The Raspberry Pi Has Revolutionized Emulation". Coding Horror. .
  12. Gabriel: "Reclaiming Territory in Cyberspace". Gabe Rocks!.
  13. Cheng, Jack: "The Slow Web". jackcheng.com. .
  14. Löfgren, Viktor: "Snark, Ironic Detachment, Authenticity". marginalia.nu. .
  15. Evans, Scott: "Solar Hosting with a Raspberry Pi". Scott Evans. .
  16. Huang, Jeff: "This Page is Designed to Last". jeffhuang.com. .
  17. joelchrono: "Unpolished Human Websites". joelchrono.xyz. .
  18. Tang, Roy: "Web Explorer". roytang.net. .
  19. Cegłowski, Maciej: "The Website Obesity Crisis". Idle Words. .
  20. Healey, Andrew: "When I'm Sad My Computer Sends Me Cats". healeycodes.com. .
  21. Kelly, Kevin: "You Are Not Late". The Technium. .
  22. Smith, Luke: "YOU are the Dead Internet". lukesmith.neocities.org. Re: Luke Smith - This one is a game-changer. To add onto it, I find it downright unsettling that the robots can appear more human than the actual humans.
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Good Living

  1. "Are You a Screen Zombie?". RNOTTÉ. .
  2. "Blog: More Pull". ava's blog. .
  3. Svensson, Carl: "The Cosy Web". datagubbe.se. .
  4. "Daniele63: Terrariums". daniele63.com.
  5. Branwen, Gwern: "Gwern: Cat Horror". gwern.net. . Re: Gwern - His site is very dense, even for avid readers. Take it slowly and steadily, this thing is a labyrinth. However, I admire his branding and ability to just empty his entire subconscious onto us.
  6. Branwen, Gwern: "Gwern: On Improvement". gwern.net. .
  7. Branwen, Gwern: "Gwern: On Search". gwern.net. .
  8. Branwen, Gwern: "Gwern: Socks". gwern.net.
  9. Branwen, Gwern: "Gwern: Wood Pillow". gwern.net. .
  10. "His Virus Ness: Long Live the Interwebz". hisvirusness.com. .
  11. Westenberg, JA: "How to Stop Being Boring". Westenberg.. . Re: Joan Westenberg - This one really massages the people-pleaser in me.
  12. Ango, Steph: "In Good Hands". stephango.com. .
  13. Evans, Julia: "Julia Evans: Tactics for Writing in Public". Julia Evans. .
  14. Shameem, Sharif: "Looking Stupid". sharif.io. .
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  1. Nishiyama, Christine: "Make Art for You, Not Likes". Might Could Studios.
  2. "Making a Terrarium in a Demijohn". michael-lewis.com.
  3. Burkeman, Oliver: "Oliver Burkeman: The River". oliverburkeman.com.
  4. Laksola, Mikko: "The Other Memento Mori". mikkolaksola.com. .
  5. "Passive Suicidality Scale". piegames.de. . Re: piegames - While mental health awareness is...getting there, passive suicidality continues to waver in its visibility and I find this a good way to counter that.
  6. "Re: Re: Go Fail at Some Hobbies". bluebottles. .
  7. Collee, Lauren: "Real Life Mag: The Great Offline". Real Life. .
  8. Svensson, Carl: "The Sage and the Weasel". datagubbe.se. .
  9. Wolf, Michael: "Stuffed Animals and Aging". wolfmd.me.
  10. Urban, Tim: "Taming the Mammoth". Wait But Why. . Re: waitbutwhy - Come for the self-esteem advice, stay for the hilarious drawings.
  11. Cronon, William: "The Trouble with Wilderness". williamcronon.net. .
  12. Branwen, Gwern: "Why Cats Knock Stuff Over". gwern.net. .
  13. Somers, James: "William James's Advice". jsomers.net. .
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Wikipedia

  1. Sullivan, Danny: "The Closed, Unfriendly World of Wikipedia". dannysullivan.com. .
  2. Rauwerda, Annie: "The Depths of Wikipedians". Asterisk. .
  3. Smallbones: "How Paid Editors Squeeze You Dry". Wikipedia Signpost. .
  4. Sanger, Larry: "More Replies About Wikimedia and the Fallout of My Report to the FBI". larrysanger.org. .
  5. Paumier, Guillaume: "My Life as an Autistic Wikipedian". guillaumepaumier.com. .
  6. Sanger, Larry: "On Genuine Neutrality Versus Enforced Consensus". larrysanger.org. .
  7. Sanger, Larry: "On the Moral Bankruptcy of Wikipedia's Anonymous Administration". larrysanger.org. .
  8. Scott, Jason: "The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History". ASCII by Jason Scott. .
  9. Bernstein, Mark: "Reckless". markbernstein.org. .
  10. Sanger, Larry: "What Should We Do About Wikipedia's Porn Problem?". larrysanger.org. .
  11. Sanger, Larry: "Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism". larrysanger.org. .
  12. Macon, Guy: "Wikipedia has Cancer". Wikipedia.
  13. Sanger, Larry: "Wikipedia Is Badly Biased". larrysanger.org. .

Newsletters

  1. "Good Internet Magazine". Good Internet Magazine.
  2. Sass, Michael: "Shellsharks Scroll". Shellsharks. .
  3. "TorrentFreak". TorrentFreak.

PDFs

  1. Shirky, Clay: "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy". O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. .
  2. Erickson, Kristofer: "Copyright and the Commons". OpenSym '18. .
  3. Sourati, et al.: "Illusion of Explanatory Depth". Preprint. .
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Webbed Sites

Archives: General

16colors
An archive of early ASCII and ANSI art.
Anarchivism
A wiki for data-hoarders.
Anxiety Aid Tools
Practical methods for stress management.
Classic Horror
The remains of an old horror-movie review website, kindly kept online as an archive.
Contemporary Home Computing
The dormant remains of a web archeologist.
Dark Realms: USENET
A thirty-year old bulletin board, and one of the last of its kind.
DOSBox
The premier in DOS emulation.
Dream Wiki
An artsy database of dreams.
Halloween Collector
A collector of vintage Halloween decorations discusses his decades-long journey.
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Archives: General

Halloween Monster List
A compilation of halloween crafts.
Halloween Retrospect
A 600+ and still-growing collection of vintage Halloween ephemera.
Hello World Collection
A compilation of "Hello World" programs in over 600 programming languages.
LP Archive: Dwarf Fortress, Boatmurdered
The epic in its entirety.
Ravensblight
A halloween artist from the HTTP times.
Scooby Museum
A collection of Scooby-Doo things, from the expected to the oddly specific.
The Gallery of Monster Toys
A 90s-style site for midcentury monster toys.
Pixel Moondust: Backgrounds Archive
A collection of approximately 2,000 retro web backgrounds, organised by colour and theme.
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Archives: Wikis

Ardalambion
Text-heavy guides on J.R.R. Tolkien's conlangs, specialising in Quenya.
Blood Wiki
A wiki for the 1997 first-person shooter and its sequel.
Diablo Wiki
A wiki for the progenitor action-fantasy title and its first sequel.
Esolang
A wiki for unusual programming languages.
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.
Petz Wiki
A wiki for the PFMagic Petz titles and their modding scenes.
Privacy Guides
The premier guide to online privacy.
Tolkien Gateway
A wiki for J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy epic and the rest of its world.
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Art: ASCII

ASCII Art by Sebastian Stöcker
ASCII art since 2000.
ASCII Characters Are Not Pixels
A deep dive into ASCII rendering using shape vectors for sharp, high-quality results.
ASCII Art Website
Christopher Johnson's ASCII collection since 1994.
FUNGI
A gallery of user-submitted ASCII fungi and other whimsical things.
Joan Stark ASCII Art Archive
A Github mirror for the famed Joan "jgs" Stark.
Roy's ASCII Corner
Carsten Cumbrowski's ASCII portfolio since 2000.
Stone Story ASCII Tutorial
Tutorials from the creator of Stone Story.
Unicorn and Butterfly
A webcomic made entirely from ASCII.
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Art: Resources

Calligraphr
A site that lets you create custom fonts from your own handwriting.
AdorkaStock
A deviantART pose-reference darling with a wide array of models.
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.
Dwellings
A procedural generator of tiny homes and their floor-plans.
Free Nature Stock
Free-to-use pictures of nature scenes.
Procgen Mansion
A procedural generator of not-so-tiny homes and their floor-plans.
Smolghost: Zine Resources
Five free zine templates.
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Games: Browser

Colossal Cave Adventure
A seminal work of Interactive Fiction, direct inspiration to Roberta Williams of Sierra-Online.
DiabloWeb
A port of Diablo 1 in your browser.
Monster Match
A Space-Invaders clone where you match monsters to blast them.
Party Cemetery
A Space Funeral-like game where you attend a monster party and collect autographs.
PETSCII Fireplace
A virtual fireplace screensaver, complete with toggles for particle effects and music.
Powder
A childhood favourite where you play with various chemicals, liquids, and powders.
WebGL Fluid Simulation
I love this one.
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Games: Downloadable

How to Raise a Dragon
Play as a captured dragon that breaks free and turns the tables on its humans, or doesn't.
KittyToy
Run a virtual cat shelter and give stray cats a loving home.
Monster Breeder
A choose-your-own-adventure where you capture and breed monsters into grisly hybrid things.
Space Funeral
A man in pyjamas sets off with his horse made of legs to save the world.
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Games: Novelty Sites

Cats on Routers
A gallery of cats sitting on internet routers, simply because they can.
Creepy Link
Turns your links freaky.
Gwil's Internet Time
A website that tells you what swatch time it is.
Kitten War
A site for voting on the cutest kittens.
Purrli
A sound-machine of cat purrs.
SomaFM
My radio station of choice, especially its Dark Ambient one.
Sounds of the Forest Soundmap
An interactive sound map of the world's forests.
TombZone
Make your own ASCII tombstones.
XP Paint
A browser recreation of Microsoft Paint as it appeared in Windows XP.
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Other Netizens: Collectives

100 Rabbits
A pair of creatives operating from a tiny boat.
Anticopyright
A copyright abolishment website.
Copyfree
A website for the term "Copyfree", denoting the free distribution of media.
Cult of the Dead Cow
A decades-old hacker group with some really cool ASCII art.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
A nonprofit organisation for digital privacy.
Low Carbon Software
A collective dedicated to environmentally-friendly software.
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Other Netizens: Individuals

2bit
A site dedicated to 2-bit media.
Bogleech
A site celebrating all things monstrous, grotesque and halloween-ish, complete with its own monster bestiary.
Catstuff
A celebration of cats since 1998.
Datagubbe
An old tech enthusiast and pixel artist.
Dinosaur Dracula
A site that reviews 80s to 90s media with a playful style and a spooky lean.
Dungeon Synth
A basic guide to Dungeon Synth.
Hallowdaze
A neocities site all about halloween.
Lilac Lynx
A Petz site that also taught me what a flexbox was.
Oodlecat
Another Petz fan, with a period-appropriate windows 95 theme.
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Other Netizens: Individuals

Ritual Dust
A site for folklore and fantasy.
The Hermitary
A website about hermitdom.
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Technology: Datahoarding

Archive Team
A long-running archival project that always needs a helping hand.
Beautiful Soup
My HTML python scraper of choice.
EasyOCR
My OCR transcriber of choice.
ExifTool
My Exif-cleaning software of choice.
FFmpeg
I had to get this for YT-DLP, but it can do some other cool things.
gallery-dl
A terminal-based downloader for galleries. I've downloaded almost a hundred gigabytes of pictures with this alone.
Ghost Archive
A Wayback Machine-styled website.
ImageMagick
The oldest in this section, editing your pictures from the terminal since the 80s.
Kill the Newsletter
A tool for reading newsletters with RSS instead of your e-mail.
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Technology: Datahoarding

Qbittorrent
My torrent client of choice.
Wget
My website scraper of choice.
yt-dlp
For downloading rare gems from that cesspool we know as YouTube.
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Technology: IRC (For Users)

Aaron Swartz IRC Style Guide
A humourous guide on speaking in IRC.
Bash Archive
An extremely funny archive of IRC chatlogs.
Chat IRC Quote Database
Another funny archive of IRC chatlogs.
FreeBSD Wiki - IRC
FreeBSD's IRC documentation and community information.
Freenode
A 30 year old IRC network for the FOSS communities.
IRC History
An abridged version of IRC's origins.
IRC History (GitHub)
A Github repo that retells important events in IRC-istory.
IRC Newbies
Another vintage guide on the IRC protocol.
IRC.org
The official website of IRCnet, last updated in 2005.
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Technology: IRC (For Users)

IRCHelp.org
A classic IRC resource since 1996.
Libera.Chat
A newer IRC network for the FOSS communities.
Linux IRC Mini-HOWTO
A Linux-centric IRC guide from 2005.
Netsplit
A search-engine for IRC networks.
TFTB IRC Guide
A lighthearted anecdote on the various perverts of IRC.
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Technology: IRC (For Operators)

Ergo IRC Server
My daemon of choice, written in Go.
IRC Docs Hub
A large and precise guide on the state of IRC today.
irc3
A pluggable IRC client library based on Python's asyncio.
IRCv3 Specifications
GitHub repository containing all IRCv3 draft and stable specifications.
IRCv3 Working Group
Official IRCv3 working group for standardizing IRC protocol extensions.
Kiwi IRC
A web-based client for IRC.
Modern IRC
A suggestion and guide rolled into one.
Ncat
A networking assistant for your homelab needs.
Python IRC Library
A full-featured IRC client framework for Python.
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Technology: IRC (For Operators)

Sopel
A simple, easy-to-use, open-source IRC bot written in Python.
Wholok IRC Guide
An old and self-admittedly outdated guide on creating bots for IRC.

Technology: Linux (General)

ArchWiki
A wiki for Arch Linux and its derivatives.
Awesome Linux
A part of Github's "awesome" series, for all things Linux.
Debian Wiki
A wiki for Debian.
Distrochooser
An interactive quiz that helps you choose a Linux OS.
DistroWatch
A catalog of over 900 Linux distributions and their resources.
Gentoo Wiki
A wiki for Gentoo.
Terminal Trove
A catalog of freeware for your terminal.
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Technology: Linux (Raspberry Pi)

Awesome Raspberry Pi
A part of Github's "awesome" series, this time for the Pi.
docs.pi-hole.net
The official documentation on network-wide ad-blocking with your Pi.
eLinux.org Pi Hub
The Embedded Linux Wiki's page on the Raspberry Pi.
Ozzmaker
Local man does insane things with Pis.
Pi Documentation
The official documentation for all Raspberry Pi hardware and software.
Pi Magazine
The Pi's very own magazine studded with tutorials, projects, and community efforts.
Pi Repository
Raspberry Pi's official Github repo.
Waveshare Wiki
A wiki for Raspberry Pi hardware, most notably the UPS HAT.
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Technology: Website Building

Alt Texty
A robot that helps you generate alt text for your pictures.
Catppuccin
A pastel theme for your projects.
CSS Tabs with Default Open Tab
A javascript-less approach to tabs.
Dracula Theme
The beloved dark-theme and inspiration behind this site's colour scheme.
Electric Zine Maker
A miniature program for creating zines.
Esoteric Codes
Various articles on unusual programming languages.
Fraidycat
A browser extension that lets you follow people from afar, social media without the pain and suffering.
John Doe Layout
My favourite one-page website layout, all on one HTML file.
Kalechips Layouts
Accessible, mobile-friendly layouts with a web 2.0 touch.
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Technology: Website Building

Limegreen Wikitable
A wiki layout for your character listing needs.
Petrapixel's Layout Generator
A layout generator with lots of things to customise.
Rarebit
A JavaScript display for webcomics. Best for small, completed works.
Read Time
Gives you the time it takes to read any plaintext you show it.
Waterfox
A fork of Firefox and my main desktop browser.
Website Gallery Template
Galleries are the bane of my existence so thank you very much, miss Werewolf Girlfriend.
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Technology: Website Accessibility

Bring On the Tables, 456 Berea Street
LOREM IPSUM
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, Braille Institute
LOREM IPSUM
Beginner's Accessibility Guide, Solaria
LOREM IPSUM
How to Write Alt Text and Image Descriptions, Veroniiiica
LOREM IPSUM
Intel One Mono, GitHub Releases
LOREM IPSUM
Neurodiversity Design System
A site for neurodivergent-friendly web design.
px to rem Converter, nekocalc
LOREM IPSUM
Readability Guide, Solaria
LOREM IPSUM
Sparrow's Guide to Accessible Webmastery
A guide for disability-friendly web design.
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Technology: Website Accessibility

5 Ways to Make Your Neocities Site More Accessible, sleepydev
LOREM IPSUM
The A11Y Project
A site for accessible design.
Web Accessibility Guide, Solaria
LOREM IPSUM
Join the Inclusive Front
A community movement for building accessible web experiences, with retro 88x31 badges to display your involvement.

Web Portals

AllChans
A directory of imageboards, from the classics to the disturbing.
Bubbles.town
An aggregator of Small web blog posts.
Diagram Website
A diagram of different cultural regions of the small web.
Nightfall City
A stylish, immersive smallweb directory.
Petz Site Directory v2
A directory of websites in the Petz modding scene.
slrpnk.net
An aggregator of environmental news.
Oceania Web Atlas
A curated directory of personal websites by people from Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and other Pacific Islands.
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Obituaries

Here lie websites that openly acknowledge the reality of death on the net. These consist of graveyards for scrapped projects, failed corporate software, memorials for completed or dormant projects, and other candid acknowledgements of digital impermanence. Unlike other places, the links of this section are paradoxically enough, very much alive.

For the time being.

Goodbye Domains
Eulogies for dead domains, overly ambitious projects and other cyberghosts.
Graveyard
GoblinCat's graveyard of dead projects.
Gwern: Design Graveyard
Gwern's graveyard of dead projects.
Haunting Grounds
The remains of three decades worth of elaborate halloween displays, kept as a loving tribute. Rest in peace, Gary.
Killed by Google
A cemetery of failed Google products.
Komar Halloween
The remains of a halloween decor blog, went peacefully in 2014.
Low Tech Webring Directory
A retired webring for simple, web 1.0 styled websites.
OldUse.net
The remains of a Usenet themed art project.
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Obituaries: Wayback Machine

AFN Collection (Archived)
TBA
ASCII Art Gallery, Andreas Freise
TBA
ASCII Tutorial: Hayley Wakenshaw (Archived)
TBA
ASCII Tutorial: Normand Veilleux (Archived)
TBA
ASCII Zoo (Archived)
TBA
ASCII Artist
TBA
Bob Allison's SAAA, Scarecrow's ASCII Art Archive
A mirror of the massive Scarecrow's ASCII Art Archive, collected from rec.arts.ascii.
Dark Links (Archived)
TBA
GeoCities SoHo 7373 (Archived)
TBA
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Obituaries: Wayback Machine

Henry Segerman's ASCII Art
TBA
Lorraine's ASCII Art
TBA
Lorrie's ASCII Art (Archived)
TBA
Permacomputing (Viznut, archived)
The original text for longterm computing.
Tissue's ASCII Art
TBA
Typewritten.org
LOREM IPSUM
Unknown ASCII (Angelfire)
TBA
Valkyrie: My ASCII Page
TBA

Sadly this is where the collection comes to a close. I always sigh when I get to the bottom of a link pile, which is why I open another link, to another pile. Then another, and another, and another! The fun never ends, really, you just have to think laterally.

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