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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!

What to Expect

  1. Articles on personal websites and internet affairs.
  2. Artistic reference materials.
  3. Cats.
  4. Fan encyclopedias for my favourite things.
  5. Free browser games and web-toys.
  6. Frontend coding resources.
  7. Horror and monster-themed websites.
  8. Petz resources.
  9. Software I use.

The Shelf

Title Description
98.css A stylesheet modelled off Windows 98's UI.
A Guide to Web Curation A guide on how to sort your link pages for maximum efficiency.
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.
Ardalambion Text-heavy guides on J.R.R. Tolkien's conlangs, which specialises in his Elvish Quenya.
BearBlog A tiny blogging website with no ads, algorithms or comment sections.
Bitsy An in-browser game engine for making small, cosy games.
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.
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.
Classic Horror The remains of an old horror-movie review website, kindly kept online as an archive.
Creepy Link Turns your links freaky.
Design Tenets of my Website If I had to summarise why a lot of old sites feel that way, it would be this article.
Diablo Wiki A wiki for the progenitor action-fantasy title and its first sequel.
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.
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.
FUNGI A gallery of user-submitted ASCII fungi and other such whimsical things.
Goodbye Domains Eulogies for dead domains, overly ambitious projects and other cyberghosts.
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.
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.
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.
Notepad++ A simple coding program that offers a bit more than doing everything in Notepad.
Party Cemetery A Space Funeral-like game where you attend a monster party and collect autographs of its most famous guests.
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.
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.
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.
Scooby Museum A collection of Scooby-Doo things, from the expected to the oddly specific.
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.
The Death of DeviantArt A post-mortem on deviantART, its dearth of a successor and the anti-intellectualism of contemporary artists online.
The Gallery of Monster Toys A 90s-style site for midcentury monster toys.
The Slow Web A call for a slower, more intentional internet experience.
This Page is Designed to Last A guide on how to make your webpages last for years at a time.
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.
wttr.in The weather, in ASCII.
YOU are the Dead Internet If it's not the robots, it's us! We're the reason why the internet can be so dull in places! Eek!