2026-07-07 Steve's Notes Steve Abraham's personal notes blog covers web development tips, macOS troubleshooting, and indie web tools like Eleventy and Pass3words. Posts range from typography discoveries like Nebula Sans to practical Terminal commands for Mac users, making it a handy reference for developers and tinkerers.
2026-07-07 Stevie Oberg Stevie Oberg is a software developer and aspiring librarian who showcases her web design and programming projects, including typography exercises, CSS experiments, and a PHP-based course planning tool. The portfolio highlights class projects from web design and software engineering courses, offering live demos and source code for each.
2026-07-07 Stranger Than Usual A German-language tech blog by a writer who dives deep into SVG optimization, blog statistics, and web tinkering with a self-described love of rants. Posts cover hands-on technical topics like compressing SVG files step by step, experimenting with AI drawing tools, and CSS dark mode tweaks, all with a dry sense of humor.
2026-07-07 stream @ fnhipster FNHipster is a personal stream-of-consciousness chronicle from a self-described webmaster, covering technology, creativity, and random life events. The site features a custom ASCII stream API and a minimalist dark aesthetic with amber text, hinting at a technically creative personality behind the scenes.
2026-07-07 stream @ fnhipster The personal blog of fnhipster, a webmaster writing a stream-of-consciousness mix of technology commentary, creativity, and current events. Posts range from reflections on nuclear safeguards and hacker culture to developer deep-dives on vinyl cataloging APIs and composable storefront architecture.
2026-07-07 Style your RSS feed Darek Kay's technical blog post walks through how to style RSS feeds using XSL/XSLT, turning raw XML into a readable, user-friendly page in the browser. The tutorial includes code samples, browser support notes, and real-world examples from Kay's own blog and photography site.
2026-07-07 Style-my-tooltips jQuery plugin – malihu | web design Manos (malihu) runs a web design blog focused on creating and sharing free jQuery plugins, templates, and tutorials for developers. This particular page documents the Style-my-tooltips jQuery plugin, a lightweight script that replaces default browser tooltips with CSS-styleable custom ones.
2026-07-07 summertime! ^__^ Faegardens333 is a colorful Neocities personal site that greets visitors with a playful summertime theme, animated GIFs, and a dark/light mode switcher. The creator is actively working to improve accessibility across their pages, making it a notable example of a thoughtfully evolving handcrafted web presence.
2026-07-07 Sunday Sites Sunday Sites is a community coding club where participants gather roughly once a month on Gather to write HTML together for about two hours, guided by creative prompts like 'Pick a song you like and make a site based on its title.' The result is a growing archive of small, experimental web pages created by members including reidar, chizra, whoislina, and others, making it a charming showcase of collaborative handcrafted web creativity.
2026-07-07 sunday's internet archive ☆⌒(ゝ。∂) Sunday (handle: v19) has built a charming Neocities archive dedicated to collecting and showcasing internet interests, shrines, and old-web aesthetics with hand-coded HTML. The site features a blog, link buttons, a last.fm integration, and a growing collection of shrines celebrating 2000s-2010s internet culture and technology.
2026-07-07 Surfing the Web/Websurfing >> Fanlisting Resourcefully Addictive is a fanlisting dedicated to the hobby of surfing the web, part of The Fanlistings Network's Hobbies and Recreation category, with 632 members. It celebrates internet browsing culture with affiliates covering related topics like webrings, HTML, CSS, and online friends.
2026-07-07 SVG and tag tricks Alexey Ten shares a clever SVG graceful degradation technique that lets modern browsers display SVG images while older browsers automatically fall back to raster PNG versions using a single block of markup. The article is concise but technically illuminating, walking through the HTML parsing quirk that makes this cross-browser trick possible.
2026-07-07 swagring! Swagring is a webring curated by nomaakip, designed to connect and showcase cool personal sites across the old-web community. The site is minimal and in-progress, with an about page and a members directory linking out to participating sites.
2026-07-07 SWIFTDREAM'S DIRECTORY SwiftDream's Directory is a free web graphics resource offering an extensive collection of backgrounds, animated floaties, sparkles, neon letters, dividers, and themed holiday graphics. Organized into dozens of categories spanning seasons, animals, and fantasy subjects, it served as a go-to hub for early web builders looking to decorate their personal pages.
2026-07-07 SWIFTY'S HQ! > splash Swifty's HQ is a personal homepage on Neocities built with accessibility and customization in mind, offering multiple color contrast styles including dark, light, and dim modes. The site is notably thoughtful about inclusive design, featuring screen-reader-friendly elements, skiplinks, and cross-device compatibility.
2026-07-07 Swimming in Stuffing ... Blahaj fanlisting Swimming in Stuffing is a fanlisting dedicated to Blahaj, the beloved IKEA shark plush toy, maintained by Nikki and listed at The Fanlist. With 24 members and counting, it celebrates the cult following that has grown around this iconic stuffed animal.
2026-07-07 synth download! Sneexy's personal hub hosts a collection of self-run services including Redlib, Iceshrimp, and Sharkey, most of which are public-facing with some reserved for friends. The site also features a friendly buttons wall linking to various personal sites and webrings like Fediring and Furryring.
2026-07-07 t8ne t8ne is an extremely minimal personal page with almost no visible content beyond its own title. The sparse presentation and short URL suggest a placeholder or under-construction personal site with little substantive old-web material.
2026-07-07 TAKENVAULLT TakenVaullt's personal Nekoweb homepage features an index, about page, links, resources, and webrings, built with a classic old-web aesthetic in mind. The site is a lightweight but cheerful personal corner of the internet from a self-described average human in their late twenties.
2026-07-07 Tantek Çelik Tantek Çelik is a web standards pioneer and Mozilla engineer whose personal site blends IndieWeb advocacy, CSS working group updates, and tech commentary with running logs and personal photography. Known for contributions to HTML5 and CSS, his site is a living example of the IndieWeb philosophy in action, complete with microformats and a no-LLM declaration.
2026-07-07 tantek / FrontPage Tantek's public wiki serves as a personal hub for the web standards advocate and IndieWeb pioneer, collecting his projects, communication protocols, and links to tools like Falcon, Whistle, and CASSIS. Visitors will find connections to microformats resources, IndieWebCamp materials, and a candid personal productivity system spanning to-do lists, daily routines, and self-improvement notes.
2026-07-07 Tarandir Tarandir is a richly crafted personal site by a language enthusiast and web tinkerer who built a desktop-first, Web 1.0-styled experience complete with a drawbox, guestbook, Harry Potter quiz, and even a constructed language called Nûnþæðkira. The site blends a terminal aesthetic with personal achievements, vinyl and book collections, and links to an IndieWeb community, making it a genuine labor of love.
2026-07-07 tchun Tchun's Neocities homepage is a minimalist ASCII-art styled page offering multiple selectable visual themes with names like 'chlorophyll,' 'ciel,' 'corporate,' and 'ochre.' The site's primary draw is its carefully crafted theme-switching system and text-based aesthetic, making it a showcase of creative old-web CSS and design sensibility.
2026-07-07 Tech writing webring A webring connecting websites focused on technical writing, allowing visitors to navigate between member sites or discover a random one. Hosted on GitHub Pages, it invites new members to join by submitting a pull request to add their site to the ring's JSON configuration file.
2026-07-07 Technical Support--20megsfree.com The technical support portal for 20megsfree.com, a free web hosting service from the early web era. It served as the help center for users of the platform, offering support documentation accessible via a frames-based interface.
2026-07-07 teeny towers! :D Ironically Elijah's 'teeny towers' is a collaborative pixel tower-building project where participants each contribute a small illustrated 'room' to a shared virtual building. The collection is still growing as the creator cautiously gathers rooms, making it a charming slice of old-web communal art and web decoration culture.
2026-07-07 Tekk's Webbed Site Tekk's curated web directory collects sites that work without JavaScript, carry the aesthetic of the early internet, and offer genuinely interesting content worth returning to. The list spans gaming fansites, retro computing, electronics projects, caving, and more, with Tekk's own short descriptions and keywords for each entry.
2026-07-07 TEMPLATERR TEMPLATERR offers free navigation tools and starter layout templates specifically designed for Neocities beginners, including JavaScript-powered updating sidebars and responsive flexbox homepage layouts. Visitors can download zip files containing ready-to-use templates with names like Rubix and Felinium, as well as a Geocities-style example that explains the basics of 90s-era HTML and CSS.
2026-07-07 tentacool's directory Tentacool's directory is a curated collection of web layouts, codes, and design resources for platforms like Neocities and InsaneJournal, organized by newest additions. Visitors can browse free-to-use HTML/CSS layouts, scrapbooking PNGs, seamless patterns, moodboard templates, social media codes, and much more, all with credited sources.
2026-07-07 teppy's layouts & tips Teppy's Layouts & Tips offers a growing collection of handcrafted, old-web-inspired HTML layouts that visitors can freely copy, modify, and use for their own sites. Each layout has a distinct creative personality, ranging from terminal-style windows to dreamy picnic themes, making this a genuinely fun resource for anyone building a personal site with old-web charm.
2026-07-07 TESTING TESTING 2 Rob (thegreekgeek) hosts a tilde.club personal site built with 11ty, documenting his tinkering with web templates, Nunjucks, Jinja2, and Home Assistant projects. The site is actively under construction, with a feed of notes and posts chronicling the process of wiring together a static blog from scratch.
2026-07-07 Text Rotation with CSS - Snook.ca Jonathan Snook's technical article demonstrates how to achieve CSS text rotation across multiple browsers, including Internet Explorer 5.5, using transform properties and filters. The post offers clean HTML markup examples and browser-specific CSS prefixes, making it a practical reference for front-end developers tackling cross-browser layout challenges.
2026-07-07 Text Shadow Test Created by Christopher Hester in 2007, this demo page tests CSS text-shadow property variations across different blur radii, offsets, and multiple shadow combinations. It includes browser compatibility screenshots comparing Safari 3 and Opera 9.5, making it a handy reference for web developers exploring cross-browser CSS support at the time.
2026-07-07 Textile Markup Language Documentation The official documentation site for Textile Markup Language, a lightweight text formatting syntax used to generate valid HTML for blogs and content management systems since 2002. Visitors will find comprehensive reference material covering block modifiers, phrase modifiers, tables, links, images, typography, and CSS attributes, complete with live interactive examples.
2026-07-07 Thank you IT admins for not blocking my website !!! btw you should visit it sometime. Viggy (also known as Ayoni) has built a quirky personal corner of the web complete with a virtual pet tamagotchi, an RSS feed, and an invitation to join the 'ViggyClub.' The site has a playful old-web aesthetic with custom buttons, badges, and a cheeky title aimed at IT admins.
2026-07-07 THE 404 CITY 404 City is a retro-themed personal site on Neocities with a stylish old-web aesthetic, built with JavaScript and iFrames. The splash page hints at a creative, under-construction personal space with a dark, nostalgic tone.
2026-07-07 The 88x31 GIF Collection | Part 1 A massive archive of over 4,540 classic 88x31 pixel buttons from the 1990s, 2000s, and beyond, all available in GIF format for free use on your own website. Spanning five parts and regularly updated, this collection is an invaluable nostalgia trove for anyone recreating the old-web aesthetic or building a retro-style homepage.
2026-07-07 The Animal Lovers WebRing The Animal Lovers WebRing, managed by Nancy Pilotte since 1998, connects websites dedicated to animals of all kinds, from cats and dogs to ferrets, birds, and wildlife. Members join by adding a JavaScript navigation bar to their pages, and the ring includes related rings such as the Stop Animal Cruelty Ring and the Spay/Neuter Supporters Ring.
2026-07-07 THE AWESOME SAUCE DIRECTORY The Awesome Sauce Directory is a hand-curated collection of indie and old-web sites that the creator personally enjoys, built as a more organized companion to their overflowing button wall. Visitors can browse recommended sites, grab an award, and submit their own pages via guestbook.
2026-07-07 The Beanzone The Beanzone is a cozy personal homepage on Neocities where the creator invites visitors to explore their little corner of the web. The site features a blog, guestbook, and participation in the Hotline Webring, capturing the classic old-web personal page spirit.
2026-07-07 The Blueberry Hill (website) Rylie James Thomas is rebuilding a personal website originally created around 2013, offering a charmingly self-aware 'construction-site' aesthetic with alternate stylesheets and hidden secrets to discover. The site nods to indie web culture with banners for Neocities, Linux, Geany, Glorious Trainwrecks, and tilde.town, signaling a creator deeply embedded in the open/creative web community.
2026-07-07 The Bulletin - Welcome! Kid Koda's personal Neocities site greets visitors with a retro-styled splash page that sets expectations for a handcrafted, desktop-optimized web experience. The site is an ongoing work-in-progress, built with a focus on learning HTML, CSS, and JS from scratch in the old-web tradition.
2026-07-07 The case for a better web – La màquina de Turing La màquina de Turing is a thoughtful multilingual blog that curates essays, manifestos, and projects advocating for a better, more open web, pushing back against surveillance capitalism and platform enshittification. The post featured here collects influential voices like Cory Doctorow and Molly White into a living resource for anyone who misses the creative freedom of the early web.
2026-07-07 The Catppuccin Webring The Catppuccin Webring connects personal websites and developer pages united by their use of the popular Catppuccin pastel color palette theme. Powered by the ringfairy tool and hosted on GitHub, it lists dozens of member sites and provides easy navigation between them.
2026-07-07 The comeback of the Fediverse and the Old Web Coder Spirit's blog post explores the resurgence of Mastodon and the Yesterweb movement, drawing thoughtful comparisons between decentralized social networks and the spirit of the early internet. The author reflects on why platforms like Ooh.Directory and community-driven old-web revival efforts feel meaningful in the context of Twitter's decline and the failure of Web3 promises.
2026-07-07 THE CRYPT The Crypt is a darkly themed Neocities personal site by datoxicwaltz, built with a gothic ASCII art aesthetic and an invitation to explore its eerie interior. The landing page offers visitors a peek at the creator's code with an open invitation to borrow it, making it a small resource for old-web style HTML tinkerers.
2026-07-07 THE CYBORGS AWAKEN! NEOGEO REDUX is a web design resource focused on the Carrd website builder, offering tips, CSS tricks, and practical advice for creating visually polished pages without relying heavily on code. Created by Android 17 (also known as Lapis), the site includes tutorials on gradients, custom cursors, imported fonts, and other design techniques with annotated examples.
2026-07-07 the dailywebthing archives Joe Jenett's dailywebthing archives is a massive, long-running curated link collection dating back to the year 2000, housing thousands of validated links to diversions, resources, and web oddities organized into browsable categories. Built and maintained over decades, it serves as both a historical record of interesting web finds and an ongoing discovery hub for curious internet explorers.
2026-07-07 the dead web HTMLSites2 is a Neocities-based platform for creating HTML memes, drawing inspiration from YTMND-style web humor and old-school internet creativity. It features an IRC chat, a custom webring called the Hotline Webring, and serves as a hub for handcrafted HTML joke pages in the spirit of early web culture.
2026-07-07 The Den The Den is a personal homepage on Neocities that participates in the Hotline Webring, featuring a JavaScript-dependent design with a guestbook and status indicator. With minimal visible text and an image-heavy layout, it has the hallmarks of an old-web aesthetic personal site still finding its footing.
2026-07-07 the dumpster fire Christa's tilde.club homepage, dubbed 'the dumpster fire,' is a freshly minted personal site on the tilde-verse with a blog, guestbook, and work-in-progress sections. The site participates in several old-web webrings including the Retronaut Webring, SapphicRing, and Hotline Webring, making it a small but charming node in the indie web community.
2026-07-07 The Dynamic Duo - Cross-Browser DHTML Dan Steinman's Dynamic Duo is a comprehensive cross-browser DHTML tutorial covering JavaScript, CSS positioning, animations, events, and layer manipulation using his open-source DynAPI library. The site includes live demos, downloadable code, games built with DHTML, and detailed API documentation, making it a thorough reference for late-1990s to early-2000s web scripting techniques.
2026-07-07 the ever changing index page ^ ^ A student's live learning journal from a 2006 HTML class, documenting their progress as they work through basic web coding concepts like tags, lists, headings, and image alignment. The page doubles as a practice sandbox and personal diary, offering a candid and charming snapshot of someone discovering HTML for the first time.
2026-07-07 The Free Web Hosting Directory - A listing of free web hosting providers - Freehosting1.net Freehosting1.net is a searchable directory cataloging free web hosting providers, complete with ratings, storage and bandwidth specs, user reviews, and detailed feature breakdowns for each host. It also offers articles covering topics from domain registration to FTP basics and CSS design tips, making it a useful starting point for anyone hunting for no-cost hosting.
2026-07-07 The Grizzly Gazette The Grizzly Gazette is a collaborative blog by a small team of Bearbloggers writing about Bearblog, the indie web, and related topics. Posts include resource lists, community events like a creation festival, and even a book club, making it a lively hub for the indie web community.
2026-07-07 The Hacker Webring The Hacker Webring is a curated ring of personal and project pages belonging to self-described hackers, makers, artists, and tinkerers from across the internet. Members cover topics like reverse engineering, cryptography, retro computing, self-hosting, and low-level programming, united by a DIY ethos and curiosity-driven approach to technology.
2026-07-07 The HellaCool Website HellaCool is a curated collection of cool webpages from the old web era, complete with a Flash-warning section for vintage interactive content. It serves as a nostalgic link directory for anyone looking to rediscover forgotten gems of early internet culture.
2026-07-07 The Hidden Source Community (HSC) The Hidden Source Community (HSC) is a playful web collective built around the quirky tradition of hiding Easter eggs and secret messages inside the HTML source code of member websites. Members join by embedding a small script and committing to keeping something hidden in their page source, making it a fun niche club for old-web enthusiasts who enjoy creative coding tricks.
2026-07-07 The Homepage of Dave Rupert - daverupert.com Dave Rupert is a web developer and podcaster from Austin, TX whose personal blog covers CSS techniques, design systems, and front-end development with hands-on technical posts. The site also showcases active projects including the Shop Talk Show podcast, Frontend Masters courses, and the A11Y Project accessibility resource.
2026-07-07 The HTML Hobbyist The HTML Hobbyist, created by N.E. Lilly, is a passionate resource dedicated to teaching plain HTML and encouraging people to build simple, honest personal websites without heavy frameworks or JavaScript bloat. It champions the open, creative spirit of the early web and offers tutorials, hosting walkthroughs, a web badge, and a webring for like-minded hobbyist site builders.
2026-07-07 The HTML Hobbyist on Neocities N.E. Lilly (Nathan) built this Neocities hub as a companion to The HTML Hobbyist, a resource dedicated to teaching people how to build their own websites with HTML and CSS. Driven by nostalgia for the early open web, the site links to tutorials on HTML, CSS, and the history of the World Wide Web, aimed at anyone who wants to reclaim their online presence from corporate platforms.
2026-07-07 The HTML Hobbyist Webring Member List: The HTML Hobbyist Webring is a curated ring of personal websites united by a love of hand-coded HTML and the indie web spirit, featuring members ranging from minimalist personal pages to creative digital gardens. Created by N.E. Lilly, the webring celebrates building your own corner of the internet from scratch and connects like-minded hobbyists who craft their sites with care.
2026-07-07 The human.json protocol Beto Dealmeida, a musician and software engineer based in Key Biscayne, FL, proposes a new open web protocol called human.json that lets site owners declare their content is human-generated rather than AI-produced. The post details the JSON format, a web-of-trust vouching system, and companion browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and qutebrowser that visually signal human authorship to visitors.
2026-07-07 The Interesting Corner The Interesting Corner is a Dutch personal homepage covering a wide range of tech-heavy interests including electronics, servers, hardware, programming, and anime. Visitors can explore a library section with books, movies, software recommendations, and space content, making it a cozy hub for a curious tech enthusiast.
2026-07-07 The internet used to be fun Rachel J. Kwon's curated reading list celebrates the philosophy of the personal, independent web by collecting essays and manifestos about why the internet was once fun and how to reclaim that spirit. With nearly 300 linked articles from writers spanning over a decade, it serves as a living archive of indie web thought and advocacy.
2026-07-07 THE KELZONE THE KELZONE is a visually striking Neocities homepage by Kel, featuring animated floating elements, scrolling clouds, autoplay audio, and an interactive door graphic as the entry point. The page is almost entirely CSS and layout code, with the design itself being the primary content on display.
2026-07-07 The Lab Renata's Lab is a hands-on CSS snippet collection packed with image effects, border styles, scrollbar customizations, text tricks, and other experimental web design techniques. Each snippet comes with copyable code and a live visual preview, making it a genuinely useful reference for anyone building or styling their own website.
2026-07-07 the lilac lynx The Lilac Lynx offers a friendly, hobbyist-focused tutorial on making personal websites look good on mobile devices, covering the viewport meta tag, image sizing, and media queries without requiring any fancy frameworks. Written by Kaliumlynx and aimed at people with basic HTML and CSS knowledge, it fills a real gap between beginner guides and professional developer documentation.
2026-07-07 the MASTERLIST of useful links - yue ★'s Blog | SpaceHey Yue's masterlist is a curated collection of links for aspiring webmasters, covering everything from beginner Neocities guides and free HTML templates to old-web graphics archives and coding tools. It's a handy one-stop reference for anyone wanting to build or decorate a personal website in the old-web style.
2026-07-07 THE NEOCENE The Neocene is a manifesto-driven blog by a creator called neo, advocating for the revival of the independent, pre-corporate web and the IndieWeb movement. It argues against algorithmic platforms and enshittification, encouraging readers to reclaim their online presence through personal sites and dedicated communities.
2026-07-07 The Neocities RSS guide Created by Adrian Neumann, this concise tutorial walks Neocities users through building an RSS feed by hand using a plain text editor, covering boilerplate XML, timestamps, and adding items. It's a focused, practical reference that makes RSS approachable for hobbyist webmasters who want to syndicate their site content without relying on third-party tools.
2026-07-07 The New Clearfix Method | Perishable Press Perishable Press, run by Jeff Starr, offers in-depth CSS tutorials and web development tips, including this detailed breakdown of the improved clearfix method for clearing floats without legacy browser hacks. The site covers CSS techniques, WordPress development, and web security, with a well-organized archive of practical code snippets and how-to articles.
2026-07-07 The Nora Webring! The Nora Webring connects personal websites belonging to people named Nora and variants of the name, including Eleonora, Leonora, Lenore, and related etymological forms. A charmingly niche webring concept, it currently links two member sites and invites others with the right name to join.
2026-07-07 The Null Webring The Null Webring is a community webring started by a group of Canadian students, connecting a small collection of personal websites in a navigable loop. It also offers shared hosting for small sites, with a simple terms of service and an open invitation to join the ring by contacting the organizer.
2026-07-07 The Official Blueberry Soft Hypermedia Adventure Game Construction Engine Homepage OBSHAGCE (The Official Blueberry Soft Hypermedia Adventure Game Construction Engine) is a public domain framework by Rylie James Thomas for building browser-based adventure games using only HTML and CSS. It provides templates, a grid-based game layout system, and beginner-friendly documentation for anyone who wants to create interactive hypermedia game experiences without specialized software.
2026-07-07 The Original France La'Lune France La'Lune's Shenanigans is a personal creative hub focused on sharing coding creations, free website decorations, and old-web styled layouts that others can use and remix. Highlights include a Code Catalog of shareable HTML and CSS snippets, a Website Deco page with button links and fonts, and a newsletter documenting ongoing site improvements.
2026-07-07 The Owlcroft Company Home Page The Owlcroft Company is a Washington State corporation run by Eric and Lynn, serving as a hub that links to their many independently operated websites covering topics from baseball analysis and science fiction to wine, food gardening, and the English language. What sets it apart is its explicit philosophy of clean, readable, ad-free design, making it a portal to a thoughtfully curated network of informational sites built over decades.
2026-07-07 The Penne Pasta Fanlisting Delizioso is a fanlisting dedicated to penne pasta, run by Lily of Heart Dreams and listed under the Food/Drinks category at The Fanlistings Network. Fans of this beloved tube-shaped pasta can join the member list, grab a button for their own site, and connect with fellow penne enthusiasts.
2026-07-07 The Perfect Website A pointed, satirical manifesto about the principles of good web design, arguing that lightweight, accessible, and readable sites are inherently superior to bloated, over-engineered ones. The site itself serves as a live demonstration of its own philosophy, loading in near-zero kilobytes while covering performance, responsiveness, accessibility, HTTPS, and semantic HTML.
2026-07-07 The Poddys Directory - something different from your average directory - come on in and take a look The Poddys Directory is a long-running web directory created in 1998, covering an enormous range of topics from jokes and UFOs to genealogy, anime, and cheap phone cards. Despite its dated appearance and some broken links, it remains a nostalgic snapshot of early web curation with a particularly large humor and funny pictures section.
2026-07-07 The Rainbow Locker Olivia's Rainbow Locker is a curated archive of web graphics including dividers, blinkies, stamps, buttons, and dolls collected from Tumblr, Pinterest, and vintage web sources. The site also offers free layouts inspired by 2000s and 2010s aesthetics, making it a handy resource for anyone building their own retro-style webpage.
2026-07-07 The Recurse Webring The Recurse Webring is a community webring connecting personal sites and blogs of alumni from the Recurse Center, a programming retreat. Presented with a striking ASCII art aesthetic, it offers navigation through dozens of member sites spanning programming, writing, and personal projects.
2026-07-07 The Retro Magic of Style Switchers | Jeff Sikes Jeff Sikes writes about the retro magic of CSS style switchers, walking readers through how to implement multiple themes and skins on a website beyond just dark mode. The post includes code examples, references to alternative stylesheets, and practical implementation options ranging from React components to CSS-only solutions.
2026-07-07 The Safonts Webring The Safonts Webring is a community dedicated to celebrating typography and fonts as core elements of personal website design, connecting sites where type plays a starring role. Originally created by xandra in 2022 and now run by Melvian, it offers a members list, join application, and a widget for participants to link their sites together.
2026-07-07 the site of expomarkerz Expomarkerz is a personal Neocities homepage now celebrating its 19th anniversary, featuring a blog, curated links, and a resources section with graphics and other web goodies. The site has an old-web handcrafted feel and serves as a hub for the webmaster's online presence and experiments.
2026-07-07 The Super-Simple Userbox Maker Created by Wikipedia user The Userboxer, this tool lets you generate custom userbox code for English Wikipedia pages with a simple point-and-click interface covering colors, text, borders, and CSS options. It supports multiple output methods including the Userbox template and raw HTML, making it a handy utility for personalizing Wikipedia user profiles.
2026-07-07 The Tower A page from embarrasseddragon234's personal Neocities site dedicated to Teeny Towers, a clique where participants build a pixelated tower filled with themed rooms. The creator's tower features rooms inspired by Orko and Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc, showcasing charming old-web decorative culture including adopts, blinkies, badges, and clubs.
2026-07-07 The v0idspace - Home V0id's personal corner of the web is a lovingly crafted old-web tribute packed with curated links, retro computing nostalgia resources, and a gallery of original art. The site doubles as a hub for old-web exploration, featuring search engines, nostalgic tools, webrings, and a growing collection of pages dedicated to cats, aquariums, and Windows 98 homages.
2026-07-07 THE VIDEO DREDD TheVideoDredd is a minimalist personal homepage on Neocities, currently in its earliest stages with just an about page and fanlisting links in place. The creator is candid about the site being a slow work in progress, giving it a charmingly honest old-web feel.
2026-07-07 The Wanderverse The Wanderverse is a personal Neocities homepage featuring a button wall, webrings, and a profile page, all hallmarks of the old-web aesthetic revival. The site is light on text but rich in the visual language of handcrafted indie web culture, with a changelog suggesting ongoing updates and creative investment.
2026-07-07 The Wayward Webring The Wayward Webring is a member-curated hub where participants share their own personal link collections, covering everything from small web communities and retro tech to conlangs, mythology, and open-source tools. Founded by Ben Christel in 2024, it celebrates the art of web curation and connects indie webmasters who maintain their own handpicked lists of hyperlinks.
2026-07-07 The Web is Ruined and I Ruined it A 1997 essay by David Siegel, self-proclaimed 'HTML Terrorist,' reflecting on how his design philosophy of mixing structure with presentation shaped and arguably damaged the early Web. Published on XML.com, the piece argues passionately for the proper separation of HTML, CSS, and XML while acknowledging the creative tensions that drove the Tag Wars era of web design.
2026-07-07 The web site of 4leaf A sparse personal homepage by a creator called 4leaf, currently showing little more than a title and a single image. The site appears to be in its early stages, with virtually no content yet developed beyond a basic landing page.
2026-07-07 The web site of chrisaldrich Chris Aldrich's minimal hand-coded homepage serves as a professional contact card, listing his roles as CEO of Boffo Socko Entertainment, Publisher at Boffo Socko Books, and Biomedical Engineer at Apsugen. A nostalgic nod to old-school web building, it offers direct contact info including a PGP key for the security-minded.
2026-07-07 The web site of classicj Classicj's personal homepage invites visitors into a self-described 'virtual world' through an elaborate portal entrance, with the site explicitly designed for desktop browsers only. The landing page sets an immersive, old-web atmosphere with audio and a dramatic choice between entering the full experience or jumping to a standard homepage.
2026-07-07 The web site of imr3ked imr3ked's self-described 'place in space' is a laid-back personal homepage with no fixed focus, featuring a gif collection, links to a personal Soundcloud, game mods for Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, and a Gifypet named Bitty. The site is charmingly unfinished and participates in the Hotline Webring, capturing the spirit of early personal web experimentation.
2026-07-07 The web site of nelilly N.E. Lilly's personal web presence is anchored around a curated playlist celebrating the World Wide Web, internet culture, and virtual reality, with a strong 'HTML Hobbyist' identity. The site also showcases an RSS proof-of-concept and links out to creative and professional profiles including GitHub, CodePen, and a personal art site.
2026-07-07 The web site of numycode Numycode's personal corner of the internet is a freshly started Neocities page with a charming retro aesthetic, featuring a gifypet and a handful of navigation links. The site is still in its early stages, with a blog and projects section promised but not yet live.
2026-07-07 The web site of roundabouthoolahoop The personal homepage of roundabouthoolahoop, featuring links to their GitHub profile and participation in both the IndieWeb Webring and Hotline Webring. The site is minimal in content, serving primarily as a landing page connecting visitors to the creator's other online presences.
2026-07-07 The web site of swirl Swirl's graphics directory is a curated collection of hundreds of free web graphics, organized into categories like mini pixels, 88x31 buttons, kaoani, decorational ads, and Nintendo-specific graphics. A labor of love built from hours of sourcing, it serves as a go-to archive for anyone looking to decorate their old-web style personal pages.
