LINKS
personal sites & neocities pages
Harmony Zone cool video games n other stuff
The End of Town a spooky town. explore it by scrolling down
Merrycoz a rly neat site about 19th-century American literature.
labyrinths
a lovely medieval monastery!! one of my favorite Neocities sites.
a whole fictional universe wrapped up in a site. pretty labyrinthine, featuring lots of cool art and sick original music, too.
a true labyrinth of a site. has all kinds of stuff.
weird, abstract, and a little philosophical sometimes? a really cool site.
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
databases
Wildflower Search search for wildflowers by location, color, shape and time
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plants Database search native plants in North America
The North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox detailed descriptions and photographs of 4,636 plants that grow in and around North Carolina.
space
start at the milky way 10 million light years from earth, zooming in at powers of 10 until you reach the subatomic universe.
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.
NASA Photojournal easy-to-search directory of high quality photos from NASA missions
Eyes on the Solar System NASA real time model of the solar system
music
learn music theory
basicmusictheory "Find scales, chords, modes, intervals and other music theory topics quickly and easily." fs the most helpful music theory reference site of all time
learn jazz theory!!
Free Jamey Aebersold Jazz Handbook this book is so helpful for starting out playing jazz!! especially for improvisation.
free sheet music!!!!!
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
free lead sheets
Fake Book City a number of out-of-print fakebooks for free download (all in C) and over 300 free lead sheets!
The Real Book Searching free search service of jazz scores from the old Real Books
web graphics
GifCities search gifs from Geocities archived on the Wayback Machine
web-authoring resources
i know u wanna make ur own website.. ik u do.. ik u want to..web hosts:
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.
a free hosting service that looks awesome
ichi.city a tiny internet community where you can create your own homepage.
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!
Marigold Town Webhosting with a small-town vibe
html resources:
MDN Web Docs super 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.
The World's Worst Website an example of poor web design.
site design tips and tutorials. i think most of them are pretty outdated (teach html 4.1 standard instead of the current 5.0 standard) but. shrugs. it's probably fine
Broken Link Checker easily check your website for broken/malicious links. finds 404 errors, mistyped URLs, invalid SSL certificates, etc.
HTML Character Entity References complete reference table of html entity names
misc:
A pet for your webpage!
Dither Me This tool that reduces the file size of an image… but in a stylish old-school way. It uses dithering to reduce the colors in an image, and places dots to emulate the missing shades (basically, it makes your image look really cool and pixelated).
Web Neko An interactive kitty for your webpage!!
interested in the old web?
you should be!old web revival:
What is the Web Revival? an article by Melonking
Tech Workers Rebel Against a Lame-Ass Internet by Bringing Back ‘GeoCities-style’ WebRings "The internet used to be the bastion of authentic creativity and self expression. This movement wants to make it suck less..."
Neocities celebrates ‘the old internet,’ offering relief from 24/7 social feeds A Polygon article
search engines for the (current) old web:
a search engine building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the net.
Marginalia Search search the non-commerical web
VHSearch! search Neocities
web 1.0:
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 with a modern computer too
The World Wide Web Project the first website.
Geocities Gallery archive of Geocities sites sorted by neighborhood.
404 Page Found huge collection of still-up Web 1.0 sites.
other early internet-related links:
Eternal September Usenet Server free online Usenet access.
olduse.net an archive of early Usenet posts (i think! i haven't rly had time to explore this page)
HUGE 80s BBS textfiles archive.
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."
JS Paint MS Paint but in your browser
The Alphabetizer alphabetize any list...and so much more!
JustDeleteMe a directory of direct links to delete your account from web services.
the best tool for making gifs!! srsly. all the other ones are trash
a free, open-source ad content blocker.
the best browser.. (imo)
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) a wonderful free, open-source alternative to Photoshop.
the most definitive Star Trek wiki out there
Dr. Bernd Schneider's Star Trek website
lots of midis
lots of LCARS layouts
LCARS Website HTML Template a really cool free LCARS website template!
misc
useful sites/resources
an online library with SO much stuff.. books, movies, images, play/movie scripts, old computer programs, 3D models, u name it. please check it out!! more detailed description to-be-written.
OVER 70,000 FREE BOOKS!!!!!!
Libretexts FREE ONLINE TEXTBOOKS!!!!! truly a godsend.
Smithsonian Open Access millions of free-to-use images from the Smithsonian!!
The Public Domain Image Archive public domain images from The Public Domain Review
Wikimedia Commons a collection of 113,527,044 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
The ADHD Analog Brain a tool designed to overcome your executive dysfunction by asking you questions and leading you to a helpful answer. for anyone who has trouble with executive functioning.
MyFridgeFood look up recipes based on what you have in your fridge/pantry.
drububu's pixel art tutorial how to do pixel art in MS Paint
fun/misc sites
Cameron's World a really cool tribute to Geocities-era web design.
What Football Will Look Like in the Future just an online article.. definitely not really good speculative fiction
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.
The HTML Review an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web.
postbox.garden An imageboard where you can only make a post by mailing a postcard to the admin
