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This is my favorite section of my website because I show to all of you many interesting websites, and even some are very useful, atleast for me when I need them. My kind of "you need to see this" in form of different webpages.
You might end up digging and exploring more websites, and that's part of the fun. The way the Web was intended.
Simbology:
 : A website that is so old or didn't change a lot for decades, or in short a Web1 site that somehow still exists today. Hover over to see how old these are.
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Museums
Digital museums or giant collections of any kind.
The largest digital library of the Internet, a must-see website. I have a huge appreciation to the Internet Archive for just existing, I feel thankful for that.
This is where you need to start to look into the old internet, and it works on old machines.
Most people know about this one: "The 88x31 GIF Collection", but as the name of the website implies, it is indeed the largest 88x31 collection.
Incredible website that showcases all known media formats, their developments and timelines, and how these went over the decades after their creation.
The title of "the largest 88x31 collection" probably goes to this actually. More than 30.000 unique 88x31 buttons that were hosted on GeoCities, when that trend was in its prime.
Dedicated archive of old software, mostly for Windows.
Another 88x31 buttons collection.
Repository of text files and how important these were before the Web.
Wiki of all considered lost of any media.
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Search Engines
My picks of better search engines.
A search engine for old websites. I find this better than The Old Net.
The "surprise me" link is the best feature.
Search engine dedicated to GeoCities GIFs by the Internet Archive. Cool huh? This is where I get alot of GIFs when I need to.
Very cool search engine that tries (a very good attempt) to look like AltaVista. You can search old archived webpages like GeoCities, AOL Hometown and so much more.
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Small Web
A selection of independent and personal websites, including clubs, forums and hosting services related to them.
Want to make a website? Neocities allows you to make a website like from scratch with HTML and Javascript. Still want to make one? Go for it!
Another but better alternative to Neocities. It offers a better file editor, custom domain support, unlimited file types, easier migration, etc.
Awesome website. It has cool artwork, music, a repository of Microsoft V-Chat and weird and unknown software and so on.
She's the reason that got me interested in building websites back again in 2019, and I really appreciate that.
She also helped me beta testing it and approaching me with ideas and assets for my Error Message Generator.
Some of the best looking websites out there. Also offers a guide for anyone interested to build a website so this is a perfect place to take inspiration from.
Found many excelent websites by digging through this so thanks for that.
WARNING: Eye strain.
Very cool website that I found. It offers screensavers, Neko 95/98 and cursors.
A cool looking website by my mutual ouija, check it out!
Internet Explorer is evil, why is it? You might want to look into it and see how Microsoft forced to their users to have IE on their computers.
Oh and the whole website is very interesting, full of many resources for older operating systems.
Página muy buena que contiene muchísimas cosas interesantes como también proyectos personales. Es bacán porque es chileno y como patriota hay que apoyarlo.
ToastyTech's lost sibling, but even more cynical. This page is full of personality, and it contains many funny stuff. It's not family friendly content though.
Or "Just Another Useless Page" is where people lost their track and felt the world being unfair to them, and this is a place for these creators and artists who felt the same and want to be part of that group.
I'm not a JAUP member but there's a high chance that I'm totally qualified to be there, since I'm another useless person and my website is quite similar as me in that regard, makes total sense.
Very cool retro-ish website. This is where I found some of the websites mentioned here thanks to this.
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Articles
Interesting articles to read.
A website that tells the reasons why social media is bad and the solutions to leave it for good.
As a person who dislikes "social" media for many reasons for so long, I recommend you checking it out.
I made this animated button btw, it's not official. Feel free to use it.
As years comes by, more websites are disappearing or going offline without being noticed by almost, anyone, and it is becoming more regular since 2020. This page is designed to last, and for anyone that is hosting or have a website, you should consider to read this.
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" - Da Vinki.
A post that tells the shady side of Discord and why you shouldn't trust it.
I highly recommend it if you're a Discord user.
This page enlists each dead Google service that somehow still remains readable to the public. Remember that time when Google Toolbar was still hosted? Yeah, that but with many others that remain unnoticed.
Avoid using this evil attribute, unless if it is justified (rel="noopener" is required for non modern browsers).
Users can open links to a new tab without even a need for right clicking and going to the menu (middle clicking or Ctrl/Cmd + click), and so webmasters should not control how the user wants to navigate the net, but I've seen many others that still do this without any reason, like if they're so scared that users would leave their webpages. Don't be like that.
I lost the article that changed my mind about this anchor attribute that I read years ago but this one does the same job. This article is also helpful.
Websites used to be good in the old days? Eh, that's debatable. This article from 1996 enlists the top 10 mistakes that were and still common in current days in any website.
There are even more editions from 1999, 2003, 2005 and up to 2011 and 2016. Check them out.
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Tools
Very useful tools.
In my opinion, the best GIF/image editor on the Internet, and it's free!
Check if your webpages are eco-friendly. Very important.
Create your own cool text or logo for you website for free.
Very useful generator that creates color palettes based on any image. Great for artists and web builders.
Want to make a cool logo? This one is for you.
Great tool that formats and validates JSON code, very useful.
Perfect tool for JPEG compression to images without a need for downloading additional software.
Compare heights with this powerful chart, and it is customizable. Perfect for artists.
Want to make a label? This one is also also also also for you. You can change the font and the colors too!
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Graphics
Websites that offers graphics (images, GIFs, accessories) for yours.
There are many of these webpages but this one not only categorizes 88x31 buttons but also credits to their original authors. I'm giving another positive because it doesn't enlist any buttons that are personal websites as many others, that's just padding.
One of the best icon archives in my opinion. Also does have more of the best free web graphics for anything.
This website does still exist on www.iconarchive.com but it's not the same thing.
Another one of the best icon/graphics archives because, it's just like the one mentioned above but here's the difference: this is still a thing today, and you can visit it and download those gorgeous, pixelated graphics.
This one I find it very interesting. It happens to be one of the oldest icon and web graphics archives on the internet that I know of.
Sadly since 2005 it went out of existence, and all of the GeoCities archives does not have this website archived. You can still visit the old captures of it on Wayback Machine.
However, there's a replica of this website called The Icon Depot.
Incredible selection of GIFs.
A gallery that shows all Windows 98 system icons.
The origins of those funny dancing red letters. Also this website does offer more than 1.000 free animated gifs!
A good resource on background images, icons, gifs, and more.
Don't want to search GIFs through GifCities? then this is for you.
This website is still online since the 2000's!
Want more funny GIFs??? This one has even funnier 3D ones that have been used for many memes over a decade.
Many free clip art at your disposal. Some links are dead so be aware, the whole website is outdated.
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Fun
For entertainment purposes.
Want to break your own news? This breaking news generator will do for you.
Generate not only fake death screen of old videogames but also text dialogs.
Funny enough, there's also a Windows 95 Tip generator in it, and that was an idea that I had years ago when I was creating my Error Message Generator if it became popular.
Make your photos or any image to look like if it was captured by a Game Boy Camera.
Another tool that makes an image to look like from an old console but in this one includes NES, Virtual Boy and even Apple II.
From the same dev that also made the "Image to Color Palette Generator" which I listed here, includes many more great things such like Text to ASCII Art Generator, Gradient Image Generator, Text Color Fade and many more interesting stuff.
Make your incredible looking text like when you were using MS Office in the 90's.
Want to make a tombstone? This one is also for you.
Want to make a political sign??? This one is also also for you.
Ezgif if it was epic. Blingee discontinued in favor of their gen AI app, but PicMix is already here to stay.
Funny generator of a realistic hand petting a thing you like.
Have you ever wanted to explore 3D levels from videogames of your childhood freely? You can by visiting "noclip.website". No additional software needed! (Old videogames only, you won't find "skibidi among sus warfare reloaded roblox version" there, sorry...)
The legendary smallest website in existence.
Polish demotivator generator... Don't ask.
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Resources
Documentations, guides, tutorials, downloadables, etc.
The best documentation for web developers and there is no doubt about that.
Greatest resource for beginners to the world of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
A big resource of all related to the Internet like web development, its history, in-depth articles and more.
Very useful for me when I code in C++. It has more tutorials on Visual Studio mostly (C, C++, ASP.NET, C#, etc.).
When the country is free. Freebies for any kind!
Many free fonts at your disposal.
Javascript, DHTML and CSS tools and free code.
This website from the 90's went down in 2024, pretty sad.
Javascript, DHTML and CSS tools and free code. Pretty much like the other one.
Another website from the 90's that went down in 2024. Probably both are from the same person, I'm not sure. Still sad to know nonetheless.
Resources on the Lingo programming language (the one that Adobe Director uses).
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Directories
Lists of other more websites.
What happens if a web directory about anything that predates search engines is still a thing today? This is it.
An old looking and very outdated web directory that somehow still exists and never changed its layout and design since the 90's at the time I'm writting this.
Another web directory of freebies that somehow still exists today, and way more inactive. Expect broken links everywhere.
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Miscellaneous
I don't how where I should put these websites so I'm leaving these here.
An interesting look into some of the very questionable user interfaces.
The best browser extension in my opinion, not only skips ads but also skips tangents, credits, sponsors, and so much more. It adds a lot of functionality to the YouTube player it's incredible. You can submit yours too!
There's another excelent extension by the same dev called DeArrow, which changes the thumbnail and titles of many videos, making them alot better.
I recommend both, specially the first one.
This website enlists many pieces of software, from mainstream to lesser known software, with detailed information about them being spyware or not.
It became inactive and some of the stuff detailed on each article might be outdated but it still applies today.
Interesting website that shows many design mistakes that may be impossible to understand their functions, and their respective solutions by the author of the website.
I was losing my mind trying to find this website again since I forgot where I found it for the first time years ago but thanks to The Simple Site it's now immortalized here.
Online emulation of various old operating systems.
The oldest webcam since 1994.
The original website of considered one of the first memes of the internet: The Dancing Baby!
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