Retro Web Links
Old Web Revival: sorta general links or stuff that doesn't fit well in the other categories
- Neocities: website hosting service inspired by GeoCities
- Blips.club: microblogging social media site inspired by Twitter c. 2009. you can customize the colours and background of your homepage.
- Old Web @ Aesthetics Wiki
- Cameron's World: "a web-collage of text and images excavated from the buried neighbourhoods of archives GeoCities (1994-2009)"
- Melonland: "a web project and online arts community that celebrates homepages, virtual worlds, the world-wide-web and the digital lives that all netizens share, here at the dawn of the digital age"
- The Old Net: "an attempt to restore vintage web browsing on vintage computers. has and links to various resources for old school internet users
- This beautiful pixel art landscape thing
- Wiby: a search engine that indexes older and smaller websites
- Links @ Arkmsworld: huge collection of links on "website hosting and creation resources (clip art, gifs, backgrounds, fonts), free softwar, ide's, browsers, anti-virus, and other useful stuff". haven't gone through it yet myself
- A cooler, more complete and actively-being-updated "old web" revival services forum for cool people
: a spacehey forum post listing retro web services, retroclone sites like blips.club and bitview, and stylus layouts that mimic old site designs
- "Why are we all so obsessed with early web nostalgia?": article by Günseli Yalcinkaya for dazed
Web Graphics
- Multiple graphic types: sites that host mulitple types of graphics or multiple graphic creation tools. some of these are linked separately below as well.
- Cinni's Dream House: cinni's very cool homepage that has adoptables, "web goodies" (blinkies, backgrounds, wallpapers, gifs, etc.), dollz, a globe maker, all sortsa stuff
- Glitter-Graphics.com: collection of gifs, dollz, blinkies, and other graphics, as well as glitter text and other text generators
- Hekate's Homepage: hekate's very cool homepage that invluces an 88x31 button maker, dollz maker, background archive (also linked under backgrounds), and sign maker
- Lovely Designs: anime-inspired avatars, banners, buttons, signatures, etc.
- The Horror GIF Necronomicon: collection of spooky gifs, also includes music, backgrounds, and a few other goodies
- Sadgrl.online: sadgrl/sadness's very cool homepage which includes (as far as graphics are concerned) an 88x31 button maker, forum siggyy maker, and tiling background archive
- Webcreations with Jumpy: large collection of gifs and graphics of every sort. seems to have a lot of canadian content as well which i love to see
- Arkmsworld links: vast collection of links to clip art, gifs, backgrounds, fonts, and other non-graphical resources compiled by arkm
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- Webmaster Tools: "over 5,300 free graphical animations and animated images"
- Badges, blinkies, and buttons
- Gifs
- Backgrounds
- Other
Web Design: coding and widgets and stuff
- 90's Cursor Effects: add little trailing bits and bobs to people's cursors when they visit your site
- GifyPet: add an interactive gifypet to your site, like my little sunflower Podcast on my homepage
- Hekate's Website Layout Builder
- Sadgrl's Layout Builder: if a page on my site has any sort of layout at all it's because of this great tool
- Sadgrl's Webmaster Guides: searchable how-to guides on html and css, as well as copyable code snippets
- Lovely Designs: in addition to various web graphics it also includes website layouts
- RV's free DHTML and Javascript effects: add cursor effects, text effects, and overlay effects to your website. i used the Tinkerbell Mouse Effect on the homepage and halfling rune pages
- SCM Music Player: embeddable music player. i used it on the sword & sorcery shrine, though it's never autoplayed correctly for me. works fine if you hit play though
- WebNeko: add a little cat to your page that will chase the cursor around
- WebsiteOut: visitor counter widget. i used this on the homepage
Archival Efforts: collections of old internet and computer stuff. not that most graphical archives like GifCities are up in the Web Graphics section
- the textfile directory: collection of internet text files from 1980-1995
- OldWeb.Today: in-browser vintage web browser emulator that lets you surf archived websites from a given date range or the live web
- The Retrocomputing Archive: archives software and documentation for "classic" (their quotes) computer systems and their software
- MCbx Old Computer Collection: information, documentation, and files "about old computers, their parts, and peripherals"
- OoCities: geocities archive
- Daves Old Computers: info and images of old computers
- Mozilla Archive: archive of old versions of the mozilla browser
- ProtoWeb: "interactive museum" of vintage websites
- Web Design Musem: showcases websites that illustrate web design trends from the 1990s-2000s
- Steve's Old Computer Museum: info, images, and links on old computer systems
- The Homepage of the Oldternet: mostly info on old gaming consoles, also doom mods, recipes, wallpapers and icon packs
- Avatar Teleport:vintage website about virtual reality chat programs
- The Eric Experiment: homepage of Eric Mackrodt which hosts a lot of old software and retrocomputing tools, among other projects
OLD-ASS WEBPAGES - either sites i remember from my youth or sites i've since stumbled upon since and want to keep track of
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