Resources

This page is a work in progress.

Name Year Type Description
Wiby 2017 Search Engine Indexes personal and non-commercial pages from the early web.
The Internet Used to be Fun 2023 Education A small database of essays from different authors across the web about the state of the web, digital exploration and preservation.
Hitchhike the Internet 2015 Link Site Aggregated links across topics including educational sources, news, music, software and tools.
Should See This 2025 Link Site Curated and organized into categories such as fun, interesting, weird, useful and useless.
href.cool 2018 Link Site A curated link directory with a focus on the unusual. Has a feature that identifies how long it will take to browse the page, which is neat.
Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus 2021 Education Online course and reading list developed by Ashley Blewer as a companion to the series Halt and Catch Fire, capturing early computer and Internet history.
Marginalia Search 2024 Search Engine A search engine that focuses on results that provide non-commercial, older text-oriented sites.
Old'aVista 2021 Search Engine A search engine and directory by Eric Mackrodt designed to imitate the layout of AltaVista, containing links to old pages from Geocities, AOL Hometown, Xoom and Angelfire.
Geocities Gallery 2019 Archive A restored visual gallery by Restorativland of the archived Geocities sites, sorted by neighborhood.

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