After diving into a whole rabbit hole of the old Internet from this one post, I decided to make a list of the most interesting links I found on the Internet.
Updated: 25/08/2022
Found a grammar mistake or want to add a link to the list? Then feel free to email me.
Most of these links might dead in the future, and for that case, you should use Wayback Machine or archive.ph.
Table of Content
- Advices
- Blogs and Wikis
- Community
- Link Directories
- Learning skills
- Make your website cooler
- Psychology
- Programming
- Random
- Search Engines
- Useful and cool widgets for your website
- Writing Online
Advices
- Advice by Patrick Collison - What you should do if you are in the age of 10 - 20
- What Should You Do with Your Life? Directions and Advice
- How to make friends over the internet
- On Friendship and on Finding Your People
Blogs and wikis
- Andy Matuschak's Working Notes - Notes about noting
- The Daily Pony - Writings and essays about organizing and linking notes (most of the time)
- XXIIVV's Wiki - Cool wiki about technology and other stuff. Lots of bingeworthy content.
- Herman's Blog - The blog of Herman (the creator of Bear Blog)
- Hanki's Blog
- Kottke.org - One of the oldest internet blogs out there.
Community
Tildes
Text boards
- Danger/u/ - A text board for dangerous opinions. Can be NSFW but most of the time friendly.
- Channel 4 - A very old text board (goes back to 1993 AFAIK). Seems to be active.
- The Post Office - An anonymous text board for people that like to relax and appreciate the little things in life.
Webring
- XXIIVV Webring - A webring created to inspire artists and developers to build their websites. From 100 Rabbits
- Safonts Webring - A webring that feature fonts and text as main design elements and/or as a featured part of their layout, either past or present.
- Bucket Webring - A webring for cool people in the bucket :)
Others
- Yesterweb - A community (and a larger movement) about the internet how it's changed.
Link Directories
- Link Directory by Sadness
- num's Web Links
- LikeHome's Links (NOTE: The NeoCities links are WILD!)
- href.cool - More organized and easier to access than all of the previous one listed
- Blogroll.org - A curated list of personal and independent blogs that are updated regularly.
- Farside - A list of instances of self-hosted apps
Learning skills
- ClozeMaster - Clozemaster is gamified language learning through mass exposure to vocabulary in context.
Make your website cooler
- Webmastery - A guide to help you make your site looks COOLER!
- Free Fonts by Sadness - A collection of fonts. Found from the Webmastery.
- Ideas for your website - A list of ideas and things you can add to your website. Found from the Webmastery.
- 88x31 Button Maker - Make a custom 88x31 button!
Psychology
- Mental Models Box - Research which explains different ways of approaching problems and reasoning.
Programming
- SDF - A public access Unix server.
Random
- Stumbling On - Click
STUMBLE
to get a random, unique independent pages - Crontab Guru - Making crontabs easier
- Regex101 - Visually see what your regular expression matches.
- Ventusky - Interactive weather
Search Engines
- Wiby - Search engine for the pages from the earlier days of the Internet
- Teclis - A search engine for finding interesting, unique results on 'clean' websites. Made by the same people who made Kagi
Useful and cool widgets for your website
- GoatCounter - Easy web analytics. Open source and free. Have not try this one yet.
- WebAMP - Music player right in the website.
- Cbox - Embedded real-time chat box
- Web Badges World - A collection of badges. Pretty 2000s.
- WebNeko - Add a Neko that chases your cursor!
- GifCities - The GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine