Links
Links of interest! This collection of links are sites that I find interesting, and I think others would too. It isn’t just the content of the site which makes it linkworthy, it is the design as well. Not every site I frequent is here, and not every site here I frequent. A “links” page might seem old fashioned but it aids discovery, and allowing people to find the unexpected. I believe in a World Wide Web where you can navigate from site to site, and get recommendations from actual human beings, not algorithms which have their own agendas and are gamed. Websites should be functional, not laden with cookie warnings, trackers, heavy scripting and they should not chew up your processor and eat up your RAM. Such sites will not be linked here.
So browse through, and pay a visit to anything here you might find interesting.
Categories of links
Computing
Computing, programming, OS’s.
Something more intellectual
Philosophy, science, politics and the like.
Blogs and Personal sites
These are blogs on various subjects, including those listed above, or just personal blogs. Also here are peoples own personal sites, covering their own interests. The sites here are sites which have writings which I find interesting and well composed, as well as sites which are just plain fun to visit and explore.
Hobby and Interests
Site covering particular hobbies and specific interests.
Weird and Wonderful
Anything Weird. Anything Wonderful. Anything surreal.
Humour
Funny and witty stuff of course!
Games and entertainment
Mostly video games,
Computing
The Window Manager I use.
The Telnet BBS Guide.
Collection of tips and trick for Z Shell
Massive, but unfortunately unorganised link directory.
A massive collections of Winamp skins, for those who want to whip the llamas arse. These skins will work with XMMS and Audacious.
Cat-v.org hosts a series of sites dedicated to diverse subjects that share an idiosyncratic intellectual perspective, questioning orthodoxy and fomenting elitism and high standards in topics from software design to politics, passing by art and journalism and anything else interesting. Other than total and complete world domination, the overriding goal is to encourage and stimulate critical and independent thinking.
Website of DVD3000. A lot of pages here about computing, games and lots of other things. DVD3000 is a bit of a tinkerer, like Yours Truly.
Usenet Archives. A positively massive archive of usenet posts going back over 30 years.
Wiby.me is a search engine which indexes simple sites, that is sites with plain HTML, minimal to no Javascript and other nonsense. A good way to find websites done in a more classic style. Click the “surprise me” button for random fun. There are quite a few interesting websites on here which you probably wouldn’t otherwise come accross.
Melon King is another search engine and directory in the spirit of Web 1.0.
Webrings used to be a feature of websites which shared a common interest or theme. The idea was, back when people ‘surfed’ the internet, that the webring would allow people to link their site to similar sites. Webring links would appear on the homepage, with a link to another site in the ring, perhaps the next, or a random one.
LowTech Webring is an attempt to bring that back for sites like this which focus on simplicity and keeping the tech requirements to a minimum.
Photos and information on old personal computers, from 1970 up to 1996. This site is to exhibit the computers that Steve has is his own personal collection.
Something more intellectual
Large collection of classical literature.
Closer To Truth presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions.
Join host Robert Lawrence Kuhn on a global journey to discover state-of-the-art ideas about human sentience and raw existence. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Seek your own answers.
Writings on philosophy, politics, musings on life and coding. Also check out his YouTube channel where he discusses these topics as had video tutorials on Emacs.
Homepage of author Shane Filer, with social commentary.
Planning for a Traditional Conservative Future. Writings on Traditionalism, Conservatism, politics and history by Mark Moncrieff in a blog format.
Upon Hope - A Traditionalist Future
Blogs and Personal sites
A blog and collection of projects, but the blog also pulls in writings from other sites. The blog is mostly about technology and ruminations on life.
Koshka’s site has writings on technology, a section on old DOS games, Horror Fiction and understanding Autism, among other things. There is also a large number of interesting links in the Dock. The website is itself, bright, colourful and vivid and clearly made with love.
Jeffrey Pauls site. Writings on technology and social commentary.
Blog of George Monbiot.
Homepage of James Howard Kunstler. Writings on urban design, economic issues, the problems of the modern world, the Eyesore of the Month
Luke Smiths Homepage covers technology, free software, with tutorials on in YouTube channel. Articles on lifestyle, tradition, crpyto, politics and religion.
Also check out his Based Cooking site for a recipe site done right and Land Chad a “site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords by showing them how to setup websites, email servers, chat servers and everything in between”.
Site with social commentary from Jacob Smith
Good articles on technology, electronics and Free Software by Joseph Graham. I recommend these articles highly.
He also has a site on the ethics of technology, where there are many other good articles.
Author of Assembly Language Step-by-Step
Hobby and Interests
Perry Bible Fellowship - Offbeat comic strip by Nicholas Gurewitch.
Weird and Wonderful
A collection of the more bizarre, strange, funny and perplexing sites. A celebration of the randomness the web has to offer! If you only use Social Media and Google, you could think that the Internet was nothing more than Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Netflix and “Top X” sites. There is a lot of great stuff still out there which goes under the radar. These are links to just a small portion, a place to start surfing. Some of these sites are silly, some are creative, some bizarre and some quite interesting.
Visit the town of Ravens Blight, a “virtual tour” through the web. Paintings, photos, music, games, so much to see and explore.
Bouncing cats
A Windows 93 simulator. Yes, a working Windows in a browser. Play games, play music, run apps and write programs. This is a must see.
Another Window simulator, this one of XP.
Some weird homepage.
A list of links from cybervenus’s blog
Neocities is the modern GeoCities, but with much better design. Neocities brings back the way the web was, but better. A web of custom homepages, each representing the personality of its creator. Back before Social Media took a dump on the Internet and made us wallow in its steaming turd, the World Wide Web was a place of discovery, where one could actually surf and discover. Neocities brings this back.
As described by the site itself “This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on noncommercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren’t aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed.”. A search engine that will give you something different than the standard (and probably mostly AI generated) sites that Google gives you.
This can give you random sites as well. You’ll never know what you find!
Massive collection of GIFs at Cameron’s World.
Collection of scans from old books about space, mainly focusing on hand drawn illustrations about space exploration.
Humour
Annotated digest of “Hacker News”. No longer updated.
Monthy Python images, sound files, videos and scripts.
Games and entertainment
Doom, Heretic and Hexen information and addons.
Dedicated to single player Quake levels.