2026-07-07 Minivac 601 Simulator A simulator for the Minivac 601, a vintage educational digital computer kit from the 1960s designed by Claude Shannon. This resource lets visitors interact with a faithful recreation of one of the earliest consumer computing devices, making it a fascinating piece of computing history.
2026-07-07 Mistigris - outlier computer arts since 1994 Mistigris is a long-running computer arts group founded in 1994 that releases regular 'artpacks' featuring ANSI art, ASCII art, and other digital works rooted in the BBS and demoscene tradition. With monthly releases dating back decades, a 30th anniversary collection, and connections to tools like PabloDraw and the 16colo.rs gallery, this is a living hub for oldschool computer art culture.
2026-07-07 mizunotic Mizunotic is a personal Neocities page participating in both the Hotline Webring and the Retronaut Webring, signaling a love for old-web aesthetics and retro internet culture. The site appears to be a minimal but charming corner of the indie web, connected to communities dedicated to vintage computing and nostalgia.
2026-07-07 MSN Forever! MSN Forever is a nostalgic tribute to MSN Messenger and the classic MSN era of the early internet, celebrating the look and feel of a beloved piece of online history. The frames-based layout itself evokes the retro web aesthetic that fans of old-school Microsoft software will immediately recognize.
2026-07-07 Museum of Endangered Sounds The Museum of Endangered Sounds is a quirky archival project dedicated to preserving the iconic audio signatures of obsolete and fading technology, from dial-up modem screech to the click of an AIM notification. Visitors can browse and play back sounds that defined an era of computing and consumer electronics, making it a nostalgic time capsule for anyone who grew up with these forgotten auditory relics.
2026-07-07 My tilde.club page Greg Sainsbury's minimal tilde.club page, where he reflects on finally figuring out how to edit it and pays homage to a terrible personal webpage he had in the late 1990s. The username '4mvrs' is a deliberate callback to his old qlink.queensu.ca address, giving the page a nostalgic nod to early web culture.
2026-07-07 My Windows 7 Dream Home A personal nekoweb page themed around Windows 7, evoking nostalgia for the beloved Microsoft operating system. The site appears to be a minimalist aesthetic tribute to the Windows 7 era, appealing to fans of retro software and classic desktop environments.
2026-07-07 NANDRAID2 - HOME NANDRAID2 is the personal homepage of 'raid', a hobbyist based in Fort Worth who hosts their site on a credit-card-sized computer connected via Ethernet. The site features a bright new layout with webrings, a project page, and a blog, giving it a classic old-web personal homepage feel with a hardware-tinkering twist.
2026-07-07 netizen club Netizen Club is a collective dedicated to the retro web revival, bringing together old-computer enthusiasts through a webring, curated link cache, homepages directory, and a queer web 1.0 forum called Lesbiaboard. The community also offers NSV streams designed for playback on very old computers and connects members via Mastodon, IRC, and XMPP.
2026-07-07 Netscape Blog Netscape Navigator's tilde.town blog chronicles a hands-on enthusiasm for retro computing, covering everything from installing CF card SSDs on vintage Pentium III machines to tinkering with classic operating systems like Windows 3.1 and Haiku OS. Posts are pulled from a Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) feed, giving the site an offbeat decentralized-internet flavor alongside nature snapshots, gadget links, and old-school web aesthetics.
2026-07-07 Nika's Nook Nika's Nook belongs to Nikita Bhandari, a 28-year-old IT worker from Portland who troubleshoots computers, installs operating systems, and collects vintage consoles including an NES and Sega Genesis. The site leans into old-web aesthetics with webrings, cliques, and a guestbook while serving as Nika's personal corner of the internet.
2026-07-07 Nineties Website Charlie Harvey's loving tribute to the aesthetic and spirit of 1990s web design, complete with retro GIFs, ALL CAPS HTML nostalgia, and curated links to other old-school-style sites. A celebration of the amateur, hand-crafted early web that doubles as a mini directory of retro-inspired pages and webrings keeping the nineties internet alive.
2026-07-07 Nostalgia Air Nostalgia Air is a comprehensive online archive of free schematics, service manuals, and technical references for antique and vintage radios, covering models from the 1920s through the 1960s. Visitors can access scanned Beitman manuals, RCA Red Books, Zenith service guides, tube cross-reference data, and more, all organized by manufacturer and model.
2026-07-07 Obsolete Computer Museum Running since 1995, the Obsolete Computer Museum catalogs a wide range of vintage and obsolete computers with individual exhibit pages for machines like the Acorn Electron, TI-99/4A, Zenith Z89, and dozens more. Visitors can browse hardware exhibits, submit questions to the helpline, and even donate old equipment to the collection.
2026-07-07 oerrorpage Oerrorpage is a gleefully chaotic personal site that celebrates old-web aesthetics, obsolete HTML tags like the marquee, and retro web culture with webrings, 88x31 buttons, and a MIDI collection. The creator leans hard into nostalgic internet absurdity, featuring flash content, software reviews, a logo archive, and participation in a dozen webrings.
2026-07-07 Old versions of Linux A comprehensive archive of old Linux and OS ISO files organized by kernel version, spanning from 1994 through the 2010s, maintained by Vivien Gueant. Visitors can download vintage distributions like Slackware, Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat, and even OS/2 Warp directly for use with VirtualBox or physical media.
2026-07-07 OMEGALOGIC OMEGALOGIC is a nostalgic Neocities site dedicated to memoirs and musings about the early web, featuring sections on retro computing, vintage browsers like Netscape, beige box computers, and the culture of 1990s internet life. The creator, Omega, has built a charmingly period-accurate page complete with ASCII art, a guestbook, and a retro gaming top-10 list that evokes the feeling of browsing the web in 1997.
2026-07-07 One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age | Digging through the Geocities Torrent Run by researcher Olia Lialina, this blog digs through the massive GeoCities torrent archive to surface, analyze, and celebrate the visual and cultural artifacts of early web culture. Expect screenshot showcases, interviews with creators, and thoughtful commentary on GIFs, MIDI, blingee stamps, and the forgotten aesthetics of the 1990s and 2000s web.
2026-07-07 Ov3rl0rd's Site - Front Page Ov3rl0rd's Site is a minimalist personal homepage styled with a retro 1999 aesthetic, featuring images and embedded audio for an old-web vibe. The sparse structure and vintage copyright date suggest a nostalgic tribute to early internet culture.
2026-07-07 Pasokon Deacon | Classic East Asian PC Platform and Software History Pasokon Deacon is a hub for a creator who has been covering Japanese and East Asian home computer history since 2020, exploring classic PC platforms, software, creators, and subcultures through videos, articles, and streams. A rare English-language resource diving deep into the world of vintage Japanese PCs, it links out to YouTube, Twitch, and other channels where the bulk of the content lives.
2026-07-07 Patched Torrent | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age "One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age" is a research and archival blog dedicated to digging through the massive Geocities torrent, surfacing artifacts and insights from the old web. This particular post by despens announces a unified patched torrent combining the original Geocities release with its patches, making it easier for preservationists to seed the data indefinitely.
2026-07-07 PC98 Images PC98 Images is a long-running archive dedicated to distributing disk images for the classic NEC PC-98 platform, active since 2003. Visitors can browse a library of disk images with descriptions, download selected games added weekly, and submit requests for specific titles.
2026-07-07 Phoenix - Chat Like It's 1999 Phoenix, created by Wildman Productions, is a revival service that brings back the classic instant messaging platforms of the late 1990s, including AIM, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, and MSN, letting users chat using the original software clients once more. The project is a labor of love dedicated to preserving the social networking experience of the pre-Facebook era, complete with server infrastructure, custom client downloads, and an active user community.
2026-07-07 PurpleHello98 PurpleHello98 is an old-web style personal site participating in multiple retro-themed webrings including the Retronaut Webring and the Hotline Webring. The site leans into vintage internet aesthetics and community, with a strong anti-AI stance signaled by its circuit board imagery.
2026-07-07 RECOIL RECOIL (Retro Computer Image Library) is a free, open-source image viewer and converter that opens 552 native picture formats from vintage platforms including Commodore, Amiga, Atari, ZX Spectrum, and MSX. Available as standalone apps and plugins for Android, Windows, macOS, Linux, and in-browser, it is an essential tool for anyone preserving or exploring old-school computer graphics.
2026-07-07 RECOIL - Formats RECOIL (Retro Computer Image Library) is a software library and viewer that supports an astonishing 552 image file formats from vintage home computers including Atari, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amiga, MSX, and dozens more. This formats reference page catalogs every supported file type by platform, extension, resolution, and color depth, making it an invaluable technical resource for anyone working with old-school computer graphics.
2026-07-07 Retro Computing & Gaming mit Windows 95 & 98, MS-DOS und C64 Creopard.de is a German-language retro computing hub dedicated to Windows 95, Windows 98, MS-DOS, and the Commodore 64, offering unofficial service packs, drivers, FAQs, and gaming tips you won't find elsewhere. Highlights include the site's own unofficial German Windows 98 SE and Windows 95 OSR2 service packs, plus guides for running DOS multiplayer games like Doom over IPX networks.
2026-07-07 RetromashCool Links | Retromash Retromash is a UK-based retro and geek culture site, and this page is its curated links collection pointing visitors toward podcasts, blogs, and video channels covering 80s nostalgia, retro gaming, toys, and cult films. A labor of love for anyone deep in the retro/geeky internet scene, it showcases the community of sites and creators that inspired the Retromash project itself.
2026-07-07 Rick's b.log - entry 2026/03/08 Rick Murray's personal blog covers technical deep-dives into RISC OS, Linux, and retro computing topics, with this entry detailing hands-on testing of a new open-source ShareFS server that bridges RISC OS file sharing to modern platforms. The site blends geekery with personality, offering commentary on tech experiments, French rural life, and niche computing ecosystems that few other bloggers cover.
2026-07-07 Rubenerd Rubenerd is Ruben Schade's long-running personal blog spanning two decades of posts covering retro computing, BSD Unix, hardware tinkering, anime, coffee, and technology commentary from Sydney, Australia. With archives stretching back to 2004 and a rich tag cloud including retrocomputing, FreeBSD, and hardware, it's a treasure trove for anyone who loves old tech mixed with thoughtful writing.
