Links!!
cool homepages and neocities sites
really cool site with a really cool spooky/fantasy feel to it. very graphics-heavy, but definitely worth waiting for it all to load!
homepage of someone named Ren that seems to get more colorful every time I visit!
a lovely Medieval monastery!! one of my favorite Neocities sites.
The End of Town a spooky town. explore it by scrolling down
Merrycoz a rly neat site with lots of info about 19th-century American literature.
cool sites!
Cameron's World a really cool tribute to Geocities-era web design.
MyFridgeFood look up recipes based on what you have in your fridge/pantry.
The ADHD Analog Brain a tool designed to overcome your executive dysfunction by asking you questions and leading you to a helpful answer. super helpful, i can confirm! for anyone who has trouble with executive functioning.
drububu's pixel art tutorial how to do pixel art in MS Paint
The Geocities-izer make any webpage look like it was made by a 13 year-old in 1996.
It is as if you were doing work silly game where you do "work" on an old computer.
Library of Babel everything that has been, or will ever be written.
maps
NUKEMAP see what would happen if your house (or anywhere you want) got nuked
Windy world map of wind and weather patterns.
MarineTraffic live map of shipping/marine traffic all over the world.
Falling Fruit collaborative world map of edible plants
Intercity Rail Map live data for US (Amtrak) amd Canadian (Via) passenger trains
ORBIS The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
space-related
Astronomy Picture of the Day "Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer"
How Many People Are In Space Right Now?
100,000 Stars an interactive 3D visualization of our stellar neighborhood.
Chromoscope "Ever wanted X-ray specs or super-human vision? Chromoscope lets you explore our Galaxy (the Milky Way) and the distant Universe in a range of wavelengths from gamma-rays to the longest radio waves."
Your Sky "The interactive planetarium of the Web." Creates skymaps for any time and date, viewpoint, and observing location. If you enter the orbital elements of an asteroid or comet, Your Sky will compute its current position and plot it on the map. kind of cool! maybe a useful tool for backyard astronomers.
Eyes on the Solar System NASA real time model of the solar system
star trek
web graphics
blinkie maker: build a blinkie!
cute bear-themed graphics!! fyi: the site is in japanese
fyi: this site is in japanese
fyi: this site is in japanese
fyi: this site is archived
images
Smithsonian Open Access millions of free-to-use images from the Smithsonian!!
NASA Photojournal easy-to-search directory of high quality photos from NASA missions
Interested in the Old Web? Want to make your own site?
web hosting:
Neocities is a super great place to create your own webpage!! it's free, and there's a lot of super cool sites & people on here.
Leprd a free web hosting service for personal and hobby websites.
tiiny.host simple, free web hosting for small sites.
TrainWeb free web hosting for train enthusiasts since 1996!
html/web authoring resources:
MDN Web Docs very helpful guides for html, css, and javascript. i rely on this site a ton!
Dan's Web Tips good tips. if you're new to web-authoring, i recommend giving them a read.
Site design tips and tutorials.
Broken Link Checker easily check your website for broken/malicious links. finds 404 errors, mistyped URLs, invalid SSL certificates, etc.
The World's Worst Website An example of poor web design.
web 1.0/old web revival/retro computing/other early internet-related links:
a search engine made with the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, meant for vintage computers that can't browse the modern internet very well. it's fun to browse on a modern computer too!
a search engine building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the net.
World Wide Web the first website.
Geocities Gallery archive of Geocities sites sorted by neighborhood.
404 Page Found huge collection of still-up Web 1.0 sites.
Eternal September Usenet Server free online Usenet access.
olduse.net an archive of early Usenet posts—i think. i haven't really had time to explore this page.
HUGE 80s BBS textfiles archive.
super sick resources for learning about things!!!
OVER 70,000 FREE BOOKS!!!!!!
Libretexts FREE ONLINE TEXTBOOKS!!!!! truly a godsend.
web tools, software, etc.
Glaze and Nightshade, tools that protect your art/images you upload from being fed into generative AI models without your consent. Glaze is just defensive and protects against AI models copying your art style. Nightshade turns images into "poison samples" so that models training on them will "learn unpredictable behaviors that deviate from expected norms, e.g. a prompt that asks for an image of a cow flying in space might instead get an image of a handbag floating in space."
The Alphabetizer alphabetize any list...and so much more!
JustDeleteMe a directory of direct links to delete your account from web services.
a great tool to make gifs
a free, open-source ad content blocker.
the best browser.. (imo)
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) a wonderful free, open-source alternative to Photoshop.