Introduction
Pages like this one are how website operators used to promote other websites they like before Google and the SEO industry ruined the World Wide Web. They’re still worth doing even if you care about SEO; just make sure Google isn’t allowed to crawl your links page using a robots.txt directive or meta element.
Links
These are listed in the order I added them. When available I provide a direct link to the site’s RSS/Atom feed as well. If a website has a 88x31 button I might add it below as well.
A vestige of the Old Web; playing it loud since 1995.
I like their comics, which are often kinda lewd.
The man plays a mean bass and has put out at least one good album.
An otaku from Hong Kong. He’s a better web developer than he thinks, and I like his design.
Manu runs a nice, clean website and his homepage is always his most recent post.
I learned a bit about minimalist web design and shell scripting from him.
I’m acquainted with him from Fosstodon and agree with stuff he’s said about the Open Web and parasocial media.
founder of Yesterweb, now on hiatus; I had contributed to her zine
I like the cute little USB tail graphic.
I follow her to learn more about accessible web design (because I can always do better).
Serving the N scale community since 1999
I follow his feed for posts about GNU Emacs.
Another Emacs fan, and a Disgaea fan too given the Prinny graphic on his homepage
one of Friendica’s core developers and advocates, and generally a good guy
a programmer with a stylish, minimalistic website
a queer, autistic immigrant who works in tech, exiled from Singapore to San Francisco
an enthusiast from Italy with a vivid design sense
a Filipina gamer and otaku with a cute website
I’ve been following him to learn more about web design and web development.
I love her design sense even though I don’t have the patience to try to replicate it. It’s reminiscent of late 20th century web without excessive nostalgia.
an academic specializing in the digital humanities; I had hoped he’d be more prolific in his blogging
Web developer, occasional actor, and operator of ooh.directory.
sf by Ray N. Franklin as well as water conservation, palindromes, and RoSH, WEEE, and REACH compliance information
Author of DERELICT and ITHAKA RISING, potter, and a fan of my work; we met on Google+ back in the day.
Another author and a fan of mine; we had also met on Google+ back in the day.
One of my go-to blogs for finding new heavy metal albums.
this site delivers exactly what its tagline promises: frank commentary from a semi-retired call girl. Maggie McNeill comes by her libertarianism honestly, which is more than can be said for a lot of white guys complaining that the government oppresses them.
One of the founding fathers of American heavy metal, still touring 50 years later, and their 2020 album THE SYMBOL REMAINS fucking slaps.
A Nashville band that does 1980s revival rock operas based on the NES Mega Man games. What’s not to like?
One of many New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands overshadowed by Iron Maiden, but enjoying a revival in the past decade.
180 proof British Steel for over 50 years, still fronted by gay icon Rob Halford; their music saved my life as a young teenager.
The OGs of heavy metal. Their last album 13 saw them go out with a bang.
Their 1978 show at Nassau Coliseum was the first rock concert I ever attended, if one counts shows attended in utero.
I didn’t really get “stoner” metal until I fired up their 2010 album WARP RIDERS.
I’m not a goth; I don’t have the figure for it, but that’s OK because this isn’t a goth band. It’s just rock ‘n roll.
a collection of over 1,800 blogs covering a huge variety of topics operated by Phil Gyford.
recent additions to ohh! directory
a human-edited IndieWeb directory
a directory of what looks like mostly anime fandom websites
This hand-curated web directory’s been running for almost 20 years. Color me impressed.
a little internet pub, a small forum with chill people; also available via Gemini protocol
a cyberpunk-themed web directory by m15o, operator of midnight.pub
a small, zealously curated directory of sites run by serious nerds
an automated website directory operated by Lysianthus
a network of websites operated by Lysianthus; the design is pretty and reminiscent of late 1990s web without being garish or hard to use
not sure what to say about this one; it’s here mainly so I don’t forget about it
a small DIY search engine operated by Viktor Lofgren
Viktor Lofgren’s personal website; I used to read his posts over Gemini protocol
an alternative search engine that claims to use its own crawler, maintain its own index, and respect users’ privacy but still sells advertising; make of it what you will
Operating since 1987, it might be the original pubnix. I have a paid account here but I forgot my password and haven’t gotten around to having it reset.
I missed out on BBSes in the late 1980s and early 1990s; this is a revival running on a UNIX machine and accessible over SSH. It has lots of old-school text mode games.
A smaller, newer, cozier pubnix. It might be like SDF but I don’t have an account here. I just think it’s cool that this exists.
I support this organization because I was an unplanned child. No child should be unplanned or unwanted.
If you need to stop an unplanned/unwanted pregnancy with Mifepristone and Misoprostol, this website can help you.
a committed team of doctors, activists, and advocates for abortion rights founded by Dr. Rebecca Gomperts
a 1970 Universal Pictures adaptation of the novel by D. F. Jones that, despite its Cold War setting, has attained new relevance with the recent prominence of large language models like GPT-3.
scans of most issues of Omni magazine from 1978 and 1995, published by Bob Guccione and Kathy Keeton: science fact, science fiction, fantasy, and parapsychology — lots of interesting material interspersed with woo
an online scales source and guide for musicians learning piano; I’ve been using this as a supplement to in-person lessons
Original science fiction & fantasy emailed to you every weekday? Cool, but I wish they had a RSS feed, too.
This is handy resource if you’re an actor or looking to quote the Bard in your own writing.
Home to “Alfie”, a fantasy comic by InCase following the amorous misadventures of a young halfling woman dissatisfied with life in her home village.
One of the longest-running blogs on the Web so there must be something interesting here.
A blog covering pop culture and its hidden mechanics might be interesting.
a British website for visual art in sci-fi, fantasy, and horror
a long-running virtual magazine covering contempary art
short fiction and technology
a long-running blog covering science, arts, philosophy, politics, and literature from around the Web, interspersed with original work
an inclusive speculative fiction directory promoting books by indie sf, fantasy, and horror authors
History, particularly ancient military history, popular culture, and cats
general interest virtual magazine with a lot of anthropology
a journal of contemporary literature and philosophy examining modern life
originally an Oxford student literary magazine, now a quarterly journal and publisher of emerging authors
The USA’s preeminent literary journal since 1953, according to their press kit. Apparently the entire archive is online for subscribers.
a general interest science magazine that also explores intersections between science, philosophy, culture, and art
tech and old/obscure video games
Life in Antarctica. Looks cold.
Workplace advice and outrageous stories of egregiously bad management.
a stick figure comic that’s all but required reading for techies
Dr. Eleanor Janega’s blog on medieval history and sexuality. Often profane, usually funny.
an online guide to sexuality and romance with an emphasis on safety and consent
This is my preferred way to get a current GNU Emacs on macOS. It’s never not worked for me.
Kamikaze is a cyberpunk webcomic and animated series set in a future Dust Bowl America where food is more precious than gold. I haven’t caught up on the archive yet but I like the premise.
Originally an off-Broadway play by Elaine Lee first performed in 1980, Starstruck is a classic indie sf comic that I first saw advertised in Omni Magazine back in the 1980s.
Another directory similar to Ooh! Directory, a human-curated list of “fine personal & independent blogs that are updated regularly”
a technical writer from Malaysia trying to get back into writing fiction
some Finnish game developer that I’m stalking because I agree with their opinions on web advertising and a certain groupthink incubator
I’ve got this guy bookmarked because of a certain comic involving various blog setups that I find amusing even though it makes me feel seen.
political science professor and author of The Reactionary Mind; I didn’t know he had a blog, but there’s lots of meaty posts here
mostly tech, and at a deeper level than I generally care to delve, with occasional social and legal commentary
yet another techie working in startups, but I liked his “JavaScript Gom Jabbar” post
author of my favorite fantasy novel: “JavaScript: the Good Parts” (this is a joke; I don’t think JavaScript has any good parts)
creator of LazyBlorg, a tool for blogging with GNU Emacs and org mode; also big on PIM (personal information management)
I used to read this webcomic back in the day; I can’t believe it’s still going
I’m impressed by Jim’s determination to do everything by hand, including his RSS feed.
a website advocating the use of plain old email for everything we currently do with tools like Slack, Discord, Zoom, etc.
An astrophysicist and author with a huge archive. Unfortunately, there’s no feed; just a newsletter.
Apparently ‘datagubbe’ is a Swedish word meaning ‘old computer fogey’. I might be one myself, but I’m not Swedish.
a dumping ground for the random thoughts of a friendly neighborhood internet ghost
programming language theory, human-computer interaction, computing education, type theory, formal verification, proof theory, and property testing? sounds like plenty of challenging reads here...
a libre and open-source webcomic about a young witch and her orange tabby cat
author of Pepper & Carrot
they were kind enough to point out a typo in my webring partial that had caused breakage for them
supposedly the ‘best kept secret of the internet’; too bad it’s not better kept because it often reminds me of 4chand
a UK arts/culture/music website that I discovered thanks to a 2013 article by Joseph Stannard celebrating the Blue Öyster Cult’s IMAGINOS album
a bilingual (english/spanish) independent sound publication. I particularly liked Max Alper’s article about lifers, dayjobbers, and the independently wealthy
another site like Yesterweb celebrating homepages, virtual worlds, the world wide web, etc operated by Melon King
an old-school web forum run by Melon King
I chanced upon this fanblog for the gothic soap opera DARK SHADOWS because they had a review of Albert Bouchard’s RE IMAGINOS album.
Lots of resources for low-budget computing, personal websites, small web forums, and getting away from corporate parasocial media from a libertarian perspective
parody/homage prints and more: sex, monsters, and rock ’n roll
a local author I met at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention. Her novel “The Winter Boy” was solid.
a site dedicated to the famous novel by a Heian court lady known as Murasaki Shikibu, as well as the places mentioned therein
a website and blog by Gary N. Curtis dedicated to understanding logical fallacies
a web shrine to Richard Garriott’s Ultima RPGs maintained by the Underworld Dragon
reviews of vintage science fiction (1945-1985) by Joachim Boaz
blog posts and short essays by Pinboard proprietor Maciej Cegłowski
a SharePoint developer venturing into the IndieWeb
a website that takes a detailed look at video game translation and how games change during the translation process
a blog exposing racist, right-wing authoritarian, pseudointellectual wankers like Stephen Pinker
a personal blog operated by N. G. McClernan; I had enjoyed her takedowns of Atlas Shrugged and Peter Thiel
the long-running personal blog of public-interest technologist Bruce Schneier
I had read Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows”, but I mainly refer to his post on Digital Sharecropping
a Texas non-profit dedicated to preserving and sharing music recordings from 1900 to 1945 that streams recordings via Radio Dismuke
Definitely a love letter to 1990s web design. Not fond of his use of chanspeak, but it’s his website and I share his antipathy toward what corporations have done to the internet.
a now-archived human-curated web directory
a human-curated web directory founded in 2017 as a successor to DMOZ
the personal website of Michael Suileabhain-Wilson, who writes about “people, and policies, and possibilities. Also food.”
I was diagnosed after this website’s manifesto was written, but I agree wholeheartedly with it. If that bothers you, you’re welcome.
Apparently “Final Fantasy and Philosophy” wasn’t a one-off; there’s an entire Blackwell Philosophy and Pulp Culture series you can browse next time you’re constipated.
a long running blog by an atheist determined to oppose Christian extremism in the US
This a long-running webcomic about a heavy metal band that wants you to literally rock out with your cock out. Not just porn; it’s got a decent storyline going for it as well.
a Welsh web developer who does more with CSS Grid and Flexbox than I can be bothered to do. I keep using her HTML named colors page.
I built this as a less NSFW and non-Oedipal alternative to motherfuckingwebsite.com and friends
Often funny, usually insightful, and every post has tits and ass galore. Devastatia’s design sense is the opposite of mine; she goes balls deep with the JavaScript and PHP, so her site’s a single-page app.
A West Coast techie who does a lot of consulting and operates potato.cheap, a manifesto for the ‘cheap web’.
This is what operating a personal website feels like to me. I don’t remember when I first read this comic by Ehud Lavski and Yael Nathan, but I keep finding it. So, here it is.
An old underground metal zine and online radio station. They’ve got a metric fuckton of obscure, out-of-print metal albums in RealAudio and RealMedia format, and their zine features interviews with the likes of Cirith Ungol.
One of my favorite 21st century prog rock bands, even though they haven’t released a new full-length album since Terraformer in 2019. Reminiscent of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, with a bit of ska for flavor.
Lots of stuff for building a Geocities-style website. I used her 88x31 button maker to create this website’s current button.
He froze his site in 2009 and died soon after, but his website lives on, and his Patterns for Personal Websites is an interesting read even if not all of his prescriptions still make sense.
A collective of Personal Web/Small Web/Smol Web/Slow Web/Web Revival fans/advocates. I hang out on the forum and occasionally help with CSS problems.
I was acquainted with Xandra on the old Yesterweb chatroom, and she’s one of the people running 32bit Cafe.
BNR Metal Pages
kradeelav (NSFW)
Minutes to Midnight
so1o
Manuel Moreale
Bradley Taunt
Kev Quirk
sadgirl
tyoma
Silvia Maggi
spookshow.net
Álvaro Ramírez
ryuslash
Mr Petovan projects page
flower.codes
Pop22
Tommi Space
Daryl Sun
Jim Nielsen
Maya Land
Stephen Ramsay
Phil Gyford’s website
Helioza
LJ Cohen
Twisted Dandelion Productions
Angry Metal Guy
The Honest Courtesan
Blue Öyster Cult
The Protomen
Satan
Judas Priest
Black Sabbath
Emerson Lake & Palmer
The Sword
The Sisters of Mercy
ooh! directory
ooh! directory: recent added blogs
Indieseek
list-me
LinkLane
The Midnight Pub
Nightfall City
Nerd Listings
Smooth Sailing Listings
Asclaria
Moonshot Listings
Marginalia Search
Marginalia
Mojeek
SDF Public Access UNIX System
MUINET
Tilde Town
Planned Parenthood
Plan C Pills
Aid Access
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Omni Magazine Archive
Piano Scales
Daily Science Fiction
Shakespeare’s Monologues
Butt Smithy (NSFW)
Jason Kottke
Culture: An Owner’s Manual
This Is Cool
Colossal
Marcolo Rinesi
3 Quarks Daily
Liminal Fiction
A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
Aeon Magazine
The Point
Granta
The Paris Review
Nautilus
Fabien Sanglard
Brr
Ask a Manager
XKCD
Going Medieval
BISH
Emacs for MacOS X
Kamikaze
Starstruck
Ye Old Blogroll
Elizabeth Tai
AksDev
Computable Multiverse
Corey Robin
Hugo Landau
frantic.im
Douglas Crockford
Public Voit
MegaTokyo
James D. Morgan’s Commonplace Book
Just Use Email
Brian Koberlein
datagubbe
InvisibleUp
Bicompact Space
Pepper & Carrot
David Revoy
godteeth
Agora Road’s Forum
The Quietus
Klang Magazine
Melon Land
Melon Land Forum
Collinsport Historical Society
Cheapskate’s Guide to Computers and the Internet
Unlovely Frankenstein
Sally Wiener Grotta
The Tale of Genji
The Fallacy Files
The Notable Ultima
Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Idle Words
Michael Harley’s blog
Legends of Localization
Pinkerite
Heavens to Mergatroyd
Schneier on Security
Rough Type
Early 1900s Music Preservation
Koshka’s Kingdom
DMOZ
Curlie
Plausibly Deniable
Autistic as Fxxk
...and Philosophy
Atheist Revolution
The Rock Cocks (NSFW)
Frills
This Is An Actual Website
Devastatia (NSFW)
Taylor Troesh
Midnight Radio (EL Comics)
Vibrations of Doom
Thank You Scientist
Websets By Lynn
Mark L. Irons
32bit Cafe
Museum of Alexandra
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