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 Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden | "It’s an ethos that is both classically old and newly imagined." |
| Accessibility according to actual people with disabilities | A group discussion about website accessibility. |
| Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web | "The web is open by design and built to empower people." |
| A Guide to Web Curation | "How to actually do it." |
| Alt-texts: The Ultimate Guide | "Here are some common alt-text-fails I come across." |
| Autistic as Fxxk's Manifesto | The autistic internet-user manifesto. |
| A website is like a puppy | "It’s exciting and fun, but also comes with a lot of responsibility." |
| Blogging anonymously | "Blogging anonymously is an experience of self-discovery." |
| BUTCH: Not like the other girls | Some cool photos of butches. |
| Can Your Website Fit on a Floppy Disk? | "In my view, nothing inspires creativity like limitations." |
| Click here to read this article | "The solution is of course good links." |
| Creating a Digital Shoebox | "In a way, it’s a little like the extras menu on an old DVD." |
| Death to Bullshit | "People's capacity for bullshit is rapidly diminishing." |
| Design Tenets of my Website | "When successful, the website shall transmit a feeling of "unknowable depths" to visitors." |
| Discord is not an "everything app" | "I don't think that anything important should be stored in Discord." |
| Don’t Make Art for Likes: Social Media Pros and Cons | "We can be in control. We can make our own rules." |
| Every site needs a Links Page / Why linking matters | "Is your website a dead end?" |
| evy's ever-changing manifesto | "An evolving document that helps guide me towards living the life I want to live." |
| Five Geek Social Fallacies | "In any event, here are five geek social fallacies I’ve identified." |
| Hand tremors and the giant-button-problem | "Have you ever clicked something by accident? Most of us have." |
| How to draw ideas | "In a creative process drawing can play four different roles." |
| How to Respond to Criticism | This one's a treat, read it blind. |
| How Websites Die | "Our ghosts could live forever, if we help each other." |
| I am adamantly opposed to urgency | "How does urgency take over so quickly?" |
| If you feel okay, feel okay | "If you wanna dance, dance." |
| Inacessible (Accessible Version) | "It doesn't have to be this way. We can do better." |
| In praise of creating crap | "How professional you are doesn’t matter." |
| Intro to the Web Revival #1: What is the Web Revival? | "The Web Revival is about reclaiming the technology in our lives and asking what we really want from the tools we use, and the digital experiences we share." |
| It’s not about nostalgia, it’s about human connection | "The lurch back towards that early web is a deep hunger for the personal web." |
| It’s Not Your Writing That Sucks, It’s Your Mood | "I used to think that, inevitably, there will always be days where writing is simply impossible." |
| Linkrot, or Website Existentialism | "A broken link can be a loss but it can also be an opportunity." |
| Making ASCII art accessible | "Happy ASCII arting!" |
| Making Your Writing World Safe | "Whether they realize it or not, far too many writers are cruel to themselves when they write." |
| Mental Health Tips feat.Anxiety Wolf | "Fear is a friend." |
| Mindful coding | "Have you tried incorporating mindfulness into your coding routine?" |
| My blog is a digital garden, not a blog | "Chronologically sorted pages of posts aren't how people actually use the internet." |
| Nitpicking and the fannish tithe | "I wonder if the phenomenon is connected to the completist ethic." |
| Not Just Dead, But Gay! Queerness and the Vampire | "The vampire is the queerest of monsters." |
| Of Digital Streams, Campfires and Gardens | "How do you manage information flows?" |
| On mobile phones, the small web, and able-bodied privilege | "I promise mobile-friendly web design isn't as scary as you think it is." |
| on writing to exist, and website graveyards | "I believe websites will be future archaeological artefacts." |
| Please, enough with the dead butterflies! | "If you hadn’t previously noted the difference between a living and a dead butterfly, I’m afraid you will now begin to see dead butterflies EVERYWHERE, as I do." |
| Rediscovering the Small Web | "The small web still exists and has a lot to offer." |
| Reviving Ye Olde Personal Home Page | "And in some ways these ancient powers of the internet are wiser than their progeny." |
| Surfing the (Human-Made) Internet | "Well, no, actually, the web is still pretty awesome." |
| Technoelitism and the IndieWeb movement | "I believe that we should have better on-ramps to letting people control their own digital presence." |
| 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 Great Offline | "True disconnection, like true wilderness, is an empty goal." |
| The Inaccessible Web Revival | "But just like in real life, you have a duty to those around you." |
| The Indie Web Manifesto | "Education, information, culture and debate can only come from users, independent webmasters, academic or associative organizations." |
| The Internet that took over The Internet | "At this point in time, most people don't seem to relate to their online content." |
| The LO-FI Manifesto | "Lo-fi production technologies are stable and free." |
| The Only Way to Beat Algorithms is to Retrain Your Audience | "The problem is that everyone is stuck on social media." |
| 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." |
| The small web is beautiful | "Either way, I believe the “small web” is a compelling term and a compelling aesthetic." |
| The Trees That Miss The Mammoths | "Warning: Reading this article may cause a whiplash-inducing paradigm shift. You will no longer view wild areas the same way. Your concepts of “pristine wilderness” and “the balance of nature” will be forever compromised. You may even start to see ghosts." |
| The Web is Yours | "If you were ever looking for permission to make your own website, this is it." |
| The Website Obesity Crisis | "Keeping the Web simple keeps it awesome." |
| This Page is Designed to Last | "It's a small simple step for a complex sociotechnical system." |
| Underrated reasons to be thankful | The first issue of Dynomight's personal reasons to be thankful. |
| Underrated reasons to be thankful 2 | The second issue of Dynomight's personal reasons to be thankful. |
| Underrated reasons to be thankful 3 | The third issue of Dynomight's personal reasons to be thankful. |
| Underrated reasons to be thankful 4 | The fourth issue of Dynomight's personal reasons to be thankful. |
| Ways to say No | Annie's ways to say "No". |
| WebAIM’s Article Page | A very extensive list of accessibility articles. |
| We Are the Curators of the Web | "And in some ways these ancient powers of the internet are wiser than their progeny." |
| We Need To Rewild The Internet | "The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture." |
| What to Blog About When You Don’t Know What to Blog About | As it says on the tin. |
| Why I’m Ready to Party Like It’s 1999…Again | "There’s a better Internet out there. We just need to build it. Again." |
| Why time seems to pass faster as we age | "It seems cosmically unfair – we have fewer years to live, and each year flies by faster." |
| Words | "But the most powerful tool on the web is still words." |
| 100 things you can do on your personal website | One hundred suggestions for your personal website. |
| 100 (more) things you can do on your personal website | Another one hundred suggestions for your personal website. |
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. |
| Animal Crossing hourly | Plays tracks from the original Animal Crossing based on the hour they'd appear in-game. |
| DarkZone | A dark ambient radio station. |
| Deep Space One | A space-themed ambient radio station. |
| My Noise | Mix and match ambient sounds. |
| Poolsuite | A funk radio station. |
| Radio Garden | Listen to radio stations around the world. |
| Rainy Mood | Listen to rain sounds. |
| 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. |
| Capstasher | One of the largest collections of 88x31 buttons. |
| 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. |
| Dos Haven | A website for contemporary DOS games. |
| 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. |
| Gifcities | An archive of gifs from the Geocities era. |
| Hekate's Background Archive | A neatly-curated archive of tile-backgrounds for your website. |
| Hekate's Background Generator | Lets you generate tile backgrounds. |
| Hekate's 88x31 Button Maker | Lets you make 88x31 buttons. |
| Hellnet.work/8831/ | One of the largest collections of Geocities-era 88x31 buttons. |
| 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. |
| Rarebit | A website for the titular javascript webcomic template. |
| Smithsonian Open Access | The Smithsonian's archive of free-to-use things. |
| The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (v2.2) | An archive of DOS-era fonts |
| WAVE Web Accessibility Tool | Scans your website for accessibility problems. |
| W3Schools | A website with a wealth of coding tutorials. |
| XP.css | CSS to make your site look like Windows XP. |
| yip.pe | An in-browser pixel painter. |
| You Feel Like Shit | An interactive guide for self care. |
| 98.css | CSS to make your site look like Windows 98. |
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! |
| Bad Game Hall of Fame | A blog about critically-panned video games. |
| Biodiversity Heritage Library | A Smithsonian-backed archive of biology texts. |
| Bill Wurtz | The personal website of Bill Wurtz, music man and of "The History of Japan" fame. |
| Bite-sized Accessibility | Tiny guides on how to make your website accessible. |
| Blood Wiki | A wiki for the Blood games. |
| Bogleech | Bogleech, an artist that draws all things vile and grotesque. |
| 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. |
| Catland (New!) | A gallery of Louis Wain's art. |
| Cheese.com | The cheese site. |
| Classic Horor | The archives of a horror movie review blog. |
| Comic Devices | A gallery of comic-making techniques. |
| 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. |
| D.W. Miller Paleo Art Bellingham | The website of Paleo Artist D.W. Miller. |
| Eldamo | A fanmade lexicon for Tolkien's Elvish language. |
| Encyclopaedia Metallum | An archive of metal artists since 2002. |
| 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. |
| Gay on the Range | An archive of midcentury gay male book covers. |
| GLBT Historical Society | An archive of LGBTQIA+ information. |
| 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. |
| Images | ESA/Hubble | Hubble's archive of outer-space images. |
| Interactive AIDS Quilt | A digital AIDS quilt. |
| Interactive Fiction Wiki (New!) | A wiki for the Interactive Fiction Genre. |
| Internet History Sourcebooks Project | Fordham University's archive of historical texts. |
| Isopod Site | A website about Isopods. |
| Lars Krutak | A blog on tattoo anthropology. |
| Lesbian Herstory Archive | An archive of lesbian-centric information. |
| Leslie Feinberg | The website of a butch heroine, may she rest soundly. |
| 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. |
| Mushroom Color Atlas | An catalog for the colours of Mushroom dye. |
| Mushroom Expert | A long-running encyclopedia for mushrooms. |
| Nice Cup of Tea and Sit Down | A website that reviews british biscuit brands. |
| 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. |
| REPAD: The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database | A catalog of recently extinct species. |
| 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. |
| Steve's Old Computer Museum | A website dedicated to old computers. |
| Strange Sisters | An archive of midcentury lesbian book covers. |
| Terrarium Tribe | A website about terrariums. |
| The Cutting Room Floor | An encyclopedia for unused video game content. |
| 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. |
| Toy Animal Wiki | An encyclopedia for toy animals. |
| 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. |
| Victorian Web | A website about the Victorian Era. |
| Vixen Controlled Archive | An archive of the anthro art website, VCL. |
| Wayne's Word (New!) | The expansive writings of an ex-university professor. |
| Web Design Museum | A museum for website design. |
| WikiBound | An encyclopedia for the EarthBound trilogy. |
| Yerf Historical Archive | An archive of Yerf, one of the oldest furry galleries on the web. |
| 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. |
| Archive Stumbler | A StumbleUpon-esque tool for Archive.org listings. |
| Blogroll.org | A search engine for blogs. |
| BUKMARK.CLUB | A directory that wants sites with link pages. |
| Curlie | A treasure trove of niche old sites. |
| Darktheme Club | A directory for sites with dark themes. |
| Gossip's Web | An especially humble directory. |
| href.cool | A small, cryptic directory. |
| Indiblog.page | Press a button for a random blog. |
| Indiseek.xyz | Curlie, but with a star rating system. |
| I.webthings Directory | A modest selection of sites. |
| Links That Burn | A budding directory that wants your links. |
| List-Me.Com | A small directory that wants your links. |
| 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. |
| Mataroa Collection | A directory of personal blogs. |
| MelonLand Surf Club | A gallery-style directory by MelonKing. |
| NekoWeb | A cat-themed Neocities clone. |
| Nightfall City | A small directory with cosy ASCII style. |
| No CSS Club | A small directory for sites without CSS. |
| No JS Club | A small directory for sites without Javascript. |
| Olda Vista | A search-engine for sites on old webhosts. |
| Oldest Search | A search-engine for the oldest sites online. |
| "Ooh!" Directory | A directory with a good tag system. |
| Petz Site Directory v2 | A big directory for Petz fansites. |
| Pointless Sites | For especially pointless sites. |
| Radio-browser | A directory for radio stations. |
| Responsive Web Directory | A directory for responsive sites. |
| Satyr's Linkroll | A brightly-coloured collection of links. |
| Search My Site | A directory for non-commercial sites. |
| Smooth Sailing Listings | A nautical-themed directory. |
| The Geocities Gallery | A visual gallery of Geocities sites. |
| Text-only Websites | A small directory for text-only sites. |
| The dailywebthing archives | Joe Jenett's archive of web findings. |
| The Forest | A directory with a forest motif. |
| VHSearch! | An unofficial search engine for Neocities. |
| Websites From Hell | A visual gallery of horrible, horrible sites. |
| Wilby | A search-engine for the oldest sites online. |
| Yoohoo | Another unofficial search engine for Neocities. |
| 1MB Club | A directory of sites under 1MB. |
| 404 Page Found | A visual gallery of Web 1.0 websites. |
| 512KB Club | A directory of sites under 512KB. |