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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'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!

The Magazine Rack

Artificial Intelligence

Title	Summary
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.
In the Beginning, Slop	The concept of "Slop" is more versatile than its typical meaning.
Now We Are Six	Rejecting AI based off its public image alone is impractical.
Stop Generating, Start Thinking	Make AI code with you, not for you.

Computing

Title	Summary
A Guide to Web Curation	A guide on how to sort your link pages for maximum efficiency.
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.
IndieWeb Does Not Need to Take Off	The Indieweb does not need mainstream approval to thrive.
IRC is the Only Viable Chat Protocol	IRC is still an incredible, versatile tool in the modern age.
Linkrot, or Website Existentialism	A very heartfelt essay on the mortality of websites, and how to make the most of their losses.
The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette	A decades' old guide on Internet manners.
Permacomputing (Viznut, archived)	The original text for longterm computing.
The Public Domain	The Public Domain is inetivable, and not that scary.
The Slow Web	A call for a slower, more intentional internet experience.
The Website Obesity Crisis	Contemporary websites are bloated and inefficient.
This Page is Designed to Last	How to make your webpages last for years at a time.
Why I Release Things into the Public Domain	One webmaster's list of reasons to foreit copyright.
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.

Good Living

Title	Summary
Blog: More Pull	You're more interesting than you think you are.
His Virus Ness: Long Live the Interwebz	Things don't die if you put effort into them.
Oliver Burkeman: The River	Learn to move more leisurely through your To-Read list.
Real Life Mag: The Great Offline	"The Wilderness" and "The Offline" are similar concepts with similar logical fallacies.
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.
The Trouble with Wilderness	Nature is not seperate from humanity, and treating it this way causes problems.
William James's Advice	A general list of life advice.

Newsletters

Title	Summary
Good Internet Magazine	A newsletter on homelabs and independent webmastery.
Shellsharks Scroll	A newsletter of discoveries from the Small web.
TorrentFreak	An online publication on torrenting and piracy.

Title	Description
16colors	An archive of early ASCII and ANSI art.
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.
Goodbye Domains	Eulogies for dead domains, overly ambitious projects and other cyberghosts.
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	A compliation of "Hello World" programs in over 600 programming languages.
Killed by Google	A cemetery of failed Google products.
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.

Title	Description
Ardalambion	Text-heavy guides on J.R.R. Tolkien's conlangs, which specialises in his Elvish 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.
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.
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	Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
Tolkien Gateway	A wiki for J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy epic and the rest of its world.

Title	Description
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Art

ASCII Guides

Title	Description
ASCII Art Website	Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque laudantium.
FUNGI	A gallery of user-submitted ASCII fungi and other such whimsical things.
Joan Stark ASCII Art Archive	Totam rem aperiam, eaque ipsa quae ab illo inventore veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt explicabo.
Roy's ASCII Corner	Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem quia voluptas sit aspernatur aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores.
Stone Story ASCII Tutorial	Tutorials from the creator of Stone Story.
Unicorn and Butterfly	A webcomic made entirely from ASCII.

Reference

Title	Description
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.
Free Nature Stock	Free-to-use pictures of nature scenes.
Wikimedia Commons	Wikipedia's image galleries and a viable source of artistic reference. Just mind all the oddly-specific sections.

Games

Browser

Title	Description
Colossal Cave Adventure	A seminal work of the Interactive Fiction genre, and direct inspiration to Roberta Williams, the creator 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 of its most famous guests.
PETSCII Fireplace	A screensaver that's a virtual fireplace, 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.

Downloadable

Title	Description
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!
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 to make grisly hybrid things.
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.

Novelty Sites

Title	Description
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.
Sounds of the Forest Soundmap	An interactive sound map of the world's forests.
TombZone	Make your own ASCII tombstones.

Other Netizens

Collectives

Title	Description
100 Rabbits	A pair of creatives operating from a tiny boat.
Anticopyright	A copyright abolishment website.
Copyfree	A website for the term "Copyfree", a sign 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.

Individuals

Title	Description
2bit	A site dedicated to 2-bit media.
Bogleech	A site that celebrates all things monstrous, grotesque and halloween-ish, complete with its very own monster bestiary.
Dinosaur Dracula	A site that reviews 80s to 90s media with a playful style and a spooky lean.
The Hermitary	A website about hermitdom.
Ritual Dust	A site for folklore and fantasy.

Technology

Datahoarding

Title	Description
Archive Team	A long-running Archival project that always needs a helping hand.
Ghost Archive	A wayback-machine styled website.
Qbittorrent	My torrent client of choice.

Generators

Title	Description
Calligraphr	A site that lets you create custom fonts from your own handwriting.
Dwellings	A procedural generator of tiny homes and their floor-plans.
Pomodoro	An in-browser version of the famous timer.
Procgen Mansion	A procedural generator of not so tiny homes and their floor-plans.

IRC (For Users)

Title	Description
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	A Github repo that retells important events in IRC-istory.
IRC.org	The official website of IRCnet, last updated in 2005.
IRCHelp.org	A classic IRC resource since 1996.
IRC Newbies	Another vintage guide on the IRC protocol.
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.

IRC (For Operators)

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

Linux (General)

Title	Description
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.
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.

Linux (Raspberry Pi and Raspbian)

Title	Description
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 Repository	Raspberry Pi's official Github repo.
Pi Magazine	The Pi's very own magazine studded with tutorials, projects, and community efforts.
Pi Documentation	The official documentation for all Raspberry Pi hardware and software.
Waveshare Wiki	A wiki for Raspberry Pi hardware, most notably the UPS HAT.

Website Building

Title	Description
98.css	A stylesheet modelled off Windows 98's UI.
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 used in many a program, and also the inspiration behind this site's colour scheme.
Esoteric Codes	Various articles on unusual programming languages.
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.
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.
Limegreen Wikitable	A wiki layout for your character listing needs. I use this for Dancing with the Dead's wiki pages.
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.
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.
Waterfox	A fork of Firefox and my main desktop browser.

Website Guides

Title	Description
The A11Y Project	A site for accessible design.
Neurodiversity Design System	A site for neurodivergent-friendly web design.
W3schools	The premier site for code tutorials for HTML, CSS, Javascript and more.

Web Portals

Title	Description
AllChans	A directory of imageboards, from the classics to the disturbing.
Diagram Website	A diagram of different cultural regions of the small web.
Petz Site Directory v2	A directory of websites in the Petz modding scene.