assorted links to follow:
neat lil sites of friends/cool internet netizens:
- jem on jem
- liv
- joon
- tamadanick
- xaya
- james' blog
- ava's space
- mono
- suliman
- wom wom
- maia arson crimew
- dimden.dev
- cinni.net
- des/doqmeat
- alisa lain
- 0oxo0's home
- wired sound for wired people
- kickscondor.com (peak website scroll design)
open source guides/channels:
- "Introduction to a Self Managed Life" (wiki/guide by louis rossman)
- louis rossman (youtube)
- bread on penguins (youtube)
the below two are a little more extreme, yes, but have lots of very interesting/valid discussions & great technical videos:
- mental outlaw (youtube)
- luke smith (youtube)
useful tools:
- 99 gif shop!
- substack to markdown downloader
- tinytools.directory: smol, FOSS tools for building games/sites
- gif/photo compression (online)
- /slash pages ideas for your site
- blogging inspo
- 32-bit cafe's blog ideas!
- spotify embedded card
- webgardens! (a 250 by 250 pixel slice of your website that others can embed onto theirs)
- HTML layouts & guides, plus a cosy pokémon theme!
- Echo: a POSSE - AKA Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) software.
and of course...
privacy:
esoteric websites:
- the brink of insanity: MCD and Kia's personal website, last update 2002
- midnight.pub: "The Midnight is a virtual pub that lets you write posts and create pages." - still updated with microposts & blog posts from smolweb users!
- smol.pub: tiny blogging service - no JavaScript, ads, or tracking technology, with a web interface and CLI to manage your posts
- peelopaalu - link directory
- FrogFind - A search engine that's a custom wrapper for DuckDuckGo search, converting the results to extremely basic HTML (removes encryption/CSS/JS) that old browsers can read. When clicking through to pages from search results, those pages are processed through a PHP port of Mozilla's Readability, which is what powers Firefox's reader mode. I then further strip down the results to be as basic HTML as possible.
- The Old Net
- HOLISTIC ESSAYS On Line Archive
- Youtuube.neocities.org - "Listed below is a collection of interesting websites I have bookmarked over the last +10 years. There's a little something for everyone in here. New sites are added regularly, and suggestions can be emailed here."
- Abysstube: a tool that lets you randomly search obscure YouTube videos by leveraging default video file naming conventions, helping to uncover content buried by the algorithm.
- Frutiger Aero Archive
- Divincicide.net - "literally God's first apprentice. I am protected"...the ramblings of an enlightened man
- Exephile.net
- Letterbox Compatibility Test
- Albertocinco.com
- Emails From An Asshole
- whenwelove
- Internet Phonebook - Dial-A-Site
- mapu's digital dérive
- PointerPointer.com
- Hypertext.tv
- Library of Babel
- Historical Tech Tree
web search engines + other indieweb resources (src.)
- Marginalia.nu
- A search engine for exploring the web.
- GifCities
- A search engine for Geocities-era gifs
- SearchMySite
- An open source search engine for personal and independent websites
- Oldavista
- A search engine for old websites hosted in services like Geocities, Angelfire, AOL, Tripod, etc.
- VHSearch
- Neocities search engine
- Teclis
- a non-commercial web search engine
- Wiby.me
- search engine for the classic web
- BoardReader
- search engine for message boards & forums
- Webring List
- Ultimate Webring List 2025
- oldweb.today - in-browser browser emulator browsing the 'net' from the 1990s/2000s!
- UDM14 Google search - no AI overview - If you want to give people easy access to an AI-overview-free Google search, send them to this page.
- goatcounter.net - FOSS, easy to use and meaningful privacy-friendly web analytics as an alternative to Google Analytics or Matomo.
- Bearblog Resource List (GrizzlyGazette)
- The Cheap Web
- Yesterweb.org
- kagi small web
- blogroll.org
- omg.lol
- blogs.hn
- restorativland
- permacomputing
forums/communities (not endorsed/run by me - just for the curious):
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