Technology
The Web
Archive.org Ripper
A script to download books from the Internet Archive.
BreezeWiki
An alternative frontend to Fandom wikis.
Catbox
Quick and easy file upload for online sharing.
Delta Chat
A chat program that uses e-mail for communication. It doesn't require a phone number and supports E2E encryption.
DevGuru
A reference site for old-school web design standards such as HTML 4 and CSS 2.
Farside
A list of instances of Invidious, Teddit, etc. Updated often.
GTMetrix
A tool to measure your website's performance, the size of its requests, etc.
History of the browser user-agent string
A humorous article explaining the mess behind user-agent strings.
HTML 4.01 Specification
The HTML 4.01 standard, all you need to build good web pages.
How I experience the Web today
An emulation of the modern Web experience.
Index DOT HTML/CSS
Another great reference site for old-school web designers. If you're interested in designing your site with vintage browsers in mind, the HTML/CSS feature compatibility charts will be very useful to you.
IE6 No More
In 2009 IE6 still had a 10-20% market share, so a group of web designers frustrated with its pervasiveness launched this campaign to rid the Web of it.
Invidious
An open source alternative front-end to YouTube.
Let's Decentralize
A site dedicated to darknets and decentralized services such as Tor, I2P, XMPP, etc. Has a decent collection of links to hidden services.
Marginalia Easy Read Wikipedia
An encyclopedia based on Wikipedia's database but with most links and visual clutter stripped for a more book-like experience.
NetSurf Web Browser
A fast and tiny browser that supports most of HTML 4 and CSS 2.
Nitter
A free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance.
No-JavaScript fingerprinting
A very spooky demo that uses HTTP metadata and CSS hacks to show you can be tracked even without JavaScript. I wonder if NetSurf is immune.
PixivFE
A simple alternative frontend for Pixiv, the art website.
Rediscovering the Small Web
Away from the commercial web, there's a web that is unpolished, often quirky but often also fun, creative and interesting.
Robin’s HTML 4.0 Conformance Test
An educational site with HTML 4 demos that all browsers should support.
Scribe
An alternative frontend to Medium.
Simple Web
A collection of Javascript-less frontends to various services.
StumblingOn
Discover random sites at the press of a button.
Teddit
An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy.
Terms of Service; Didn't Read
A community project which aims to clearly explain many websites's terms of service and rate them in a scale from A (very good) to E (terrible).
The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers
It's impossible to build a new web browser because the web is absurdly complex.
The Useless Web
Press the button to be sent to a useless site.
The Website Obesity Crisis
An article about the absurd bloat of sites that ultimately only deliver text and images.
TweetDelete
Probably the only no-bullshit tweet-wiping service. Use it for online hygiene, though nothing beats not using Twitter in the first place.
Wayback Machine Downloader
A tool to download an entire website from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
Web Bloat Score Calculator
This tool compares the size of a page to a screenshot of its content, giving you an idea of how bloated it is.
Words
The most powerful tool on the web is still words.
Development and operating systems
Anime Girls Holding Programming Books
A repository collecting images of anime girls holding programming books. There's also an interactive version available but it doesn't have as many images.
comp.lang.c Frequently Asked Questions
Questions and answers about the C programming language originally posted to Usenet.
Programming in C
A lot of pages about the history and culture of C, including a parody of the comp.lang.c FAQ.
cheat.sh
A repository of community driven documentation you can access from the command line.
Collapse OS
An operating system meant to be run in improvised machines after civilisational collapse.
Godot
An excellent free and open source 2D and 3D game engine.
Regex101
Online regex tester and debugger.
Ren'Py
Visual novel engine written in Python.
RisohEditor
A free and open source resource editor for Win32 programs. Use this instead of Resource Hacker.
SerenityOS
A graphical operating system that aims to be a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core.
Sega Genesis Development Kit
Write games for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive in C.
suckless
Software that sucks less.
terminal.sexy
A color scheme designer for your terminal.
Vanilla JS
A fast, lightweight, cross-platform framework for building incredible, powerful JavaScript applications.
wtfjs
A blog about the inconsistencies of Javascript.
Writing and research
DocDownloader
Download documents from Scribd, Issuu, Slideshare, etc. Kinda shady.
Kiwix
Download full offline copies of Wikipedia, Stack Exchange, and others.
Wordgrinder
Word processor for the terminal.
Zim
A graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of personal wiki pages.
Vintage computing
2Bit
A website about 2-bit graphics, an aesthetic I very much enjoy.
3D Pipes Screensaver
The classic Windows 9x screensaver.
Ancient Web Browsers
An archive of the earliest web browsers.
Chicago95
Make your XFCE desktop look like Windows 95.
Escargot Chat
A custom chat server that brings MSN/Windows Live Messenger back to life!
Flash Kitty
An archive of the defunct Flash Kit site, a resource site for Flash developers.
Flash Player Archives / Wayback Machine mirror
All archived versions of Flash Player, for every system.
Game Maker Network
A site dedicated to preserving old versions of Game Maker and its addons. For nostalgia purposes.
Getting updates and software for Old Windows versions
A big list of software that runs in old versions of Windows, with a focus on XP.
How to Continue Using Flash Player in the Web Browser
A guide that teaches you how to install and use Flash Player in your browser past 2021.
Interface Hall of Shame
A collection of interface design atrocities in software.
Introduction to Windows XP
A mirror of the non-interactive version of the Windows XP tour.
JS Paint
A javascript-based remake of MS Paint.
JSKIDPIX
A javascript-based remake of the first version of Kid Pix, an old painting program for children.
Legacy Update
A community-run resource to help you fix the Windows Update service on Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, and Server 2008.
Mermaid Elizabeth's Microsoft Chat Resources Link Page
A site for everything related to Microsoft Comic Chat.
Museum of Obsolete Media
A collection of media formats, both old and new.
Nathan's Toasty Technology page
Home of the classic IE is Evil and GUI gallery pages, among others.
Oldcities
An HTTP proxy for Neocities, so you can browse those sites in devices and browsers that don't support HTTPS.
One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age
A blog dedicated to the exploration and restoration of the sites in the Archive Team Geocities backup.
RetroZilla
A Firefox 2-based browser targeting Windows 95 and NT4 that supports TLS 1.2.
ShortwaveSchedule.com
A live schedule of currently airing shortwave radio stations.
The Errorflow
A Windows XP-themed error simulator.
The Old Net
A tool that uses the Wayback Machine API and a proxy to browse the web on old computers.
The Restart Page
Experience the rebooting experience from vintage operating systems.
Utilu IE Collection
A program for Windows that will install multiple standalone versions of Internet Explorer, all usable at the same time. I use it in a VM to test how my site renders on IE 4 and 5.
Vetusware
The biggest free abandonware downloads collection in the universe.
VidLii - Display Yourself
The only good revival of old Youtube.
Web Design Museum
A gallery of over 2000 websites that show the web design trends between 1991 and 2006.
Webamp
A reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML 5 and JavaScript.
Windows 98 Icons are Great
A short article in which the author expresses his love for classic Windows icons.
Windows Classic Theme Designer
Allows you to create themes for legacy versions of Windows without actually running them.
Windows Explorer Through The Years
An extensive look at all the different versions of the Windows file manager.
WinWorld
Vintage, abandoned, and pre-release operating systems and software.
General articles and others
Spyware Watchdog
A site that aims to disclose the spyware contained in everyday programs and classify them by severity.
DigDeeper
A blog about privacy and society.
The Cursed Computer Iceberg
A bunch of links to weird stuff related to computers.
The Cheapskate's Guide to Computers and the Internet
A blog dedicated to teaching readers how to save as much money as possible on useful computers and Internet services.
Digipress Commons
A site dedicated to digital preservation.
EICAR Test QR
A QR code encoding the EICAR test file will crash some surveillance systems.
GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker
And my toilets are blocked. Note: GTK 4.10 finally added the feature.
How the blog broke the web
From a personal web to the uniformity and chronocentrism of blogs.
42.zip
A 42374 byte-long zipped file that will uncompress to 165 4.3 GB files.
Small
A repository collecting the smallest possible syntactically valid files in various formats.
ppixiv
A userscript for better Pixiv image viewing.
Ripcord
An alternative Discord client. It's only better than the official client because it's not a web app.
Undiscord
A user script that will allow you to delete all messages in a Discord channel or DM.
Waifu2X
Image upscaler using neural networks.
iptv-org
A collection of publicly available IPTV channels from all over the world.
Malware
vx-undergound
The largest collection of malware source code, samples, and papers on the internet.
Virii
A collection of ancient computer virus source code.
theZoo
A repository of live malware with a Python interface for browsing and retrieval.
Free Malware Sample Sources
A bunch of sites from which you can download actual live malware.