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| The old web |
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Neocities
Free webspace for handmade sites, Geocities logical successor.
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Sat Jun 13, 2026 3:20 pm Oliver  |
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32-Bit Cafe
People making personal websites in a similar manner, and being genuinely nice about it.
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Sat Jan 17, 2026 7:39 am Oliver  |
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Melonland
A magazine and forum for the grumpy personal web, it has a forum!
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Wed Aug 05, 2026 3:30 pm Oliver  |
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GifCities
GeoCities GIFs from the Internet Archive, searchable and fanciful.
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Tue Jul 28, 2026 7:54 am Oliver  |
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Wayback Machine
We don't want to lose history.
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Wed Jun 10, 2026 9:54 am Oliver  |
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Archive Team
We don't want to lose history.
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Sat Sep 05, 2026 4:38 am Oliver  |
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textfiles.com
BBS malarkey, could spend way too long reading.
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Tue Mar 10, 2026 8:07 am Oliver  |
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Marginalia Search
A search engine which favours small, obscure, text heavy sites.
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Thu Aug 13, 2026 10:52 am Oliver  |
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The Old Net
Old websites.
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Mon Jul 13, 2026 5:41 am Oliver  |
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The 88x31 GIF Collection
A huge pile of 88x31 buttons.
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Sun May 10, 2026 11:04 pm Oliver  |
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The Geocities Gallery
A Geocities archive of sorts.
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Sun Mar 08, 2026 1:20 am Oliver  |
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82MHz
Books, music and retro tech.
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Wed Feb 18, 2026 4:52 am Oliver  |
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Interstellar Shareware
Small things to do online, and a rabbithole of sites to visit.
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Sun Aug 23, 2026 4:24 am Oliver  |
| The scene |
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Defacto2
Scene history: NFOs, cracktros, groups, and all of that fun stuff.
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Mon Aug 31, 2026 10:24 pm Oliver  |
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16colors
ANSI and ASCII art packs
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Wed Sep 23, 2026 2:58 am Oliver  |
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Pouët
Demoscene productions and people with very strong opinions about them.
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Sat May 23, 2026 5:59 am Oliver  |
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Demozoo
Who did what
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Sat Apr 04, 2026 6:27 pm Oliver  |
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scene.org
Big archive of scene stuff
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Mon Apr 13, 2026 6:51 pm Oliver  |
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The Mod Archive
Tracker music, plenty of chiptune in here.
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Sun May 03, 2026 11:12 am Oliver  |
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The Oldschool PC Font Resource
Modern renditions of old fonts.
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Sat Jul 04, 2026 6:40 am Oliver  |
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artscene.textfiles.com
Old ANSI and ASCII art packs.
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Mon Jul 13, 2026 11:45 pm Oliver  |
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Suricrasia Online
A demogroup ISP, fantastic site.
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Fri May 29, 2026 9:26 am Oliver  |
| Taking things apart |
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Hackaday
Somebody has already built sillier, or better, version of your idea.
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Sun Sep 20, 2026 8:46 pm Oliver  |
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iFixit
Bunch of good teardown docs here.
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Sat Apr 25, 2026 2:18 am Oliver  |
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FCC ID Search
Details of the makings of almost anything with a radio in it with internal photos.
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Sun May 31, 2026 6:12 am Oliver  |
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sigrok
Open source logic analyser software.
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Fri Jun 12, 2026 5:13 pm Oliver  |
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Ghidra
A free reverse engineering suite, but it does feel a bit odd to use nsa tooling.
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Thu Aug 06, 2026 12:21 am Oliver  |
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EEVblog Forum
A lovely electronics forum.
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Fri May 15, 2026 12:22 am Oliver  |
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Tuya Cloudcutter
Good to local-ify a bunch of tuya devices.
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Sun Apr 05, 2026 10:19 pm Oliver  |
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OpenBeken
Community tasmota firmware for some plugs without an ESP8266.
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Fri Apr 10, 2026 5:08 am Oliver  |
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InvoxiPlayGames
Modernised old tech among other things
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Fri Apr 10, 2026 8:09 am Oliver  |
| Home automation |
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Home Assistant
It's home assistant.
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Tue May 05, 2026 11:22 am Oliver  |
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ESPHome
Open, nice cheap hardware uses it.
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Mon Mar 30, 2026 2:42 am Oliver  |
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Tasmota
Firmware for some things that aren't quite as open.
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Thu Jan 29, 2026 3:35 am Oliver  |
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HACS
Community integrations for Home Assistant.
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Sun May 31, 2026 11:37 pm Oliver  |
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Home Assistant Community
The forum, it's a bit of a mess but they've helped me before.
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Wed Mar 25, 2026 8:20 am Oliver  |
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ESPHome Devices
Configs for a nice amount of devices and can save a bit of a ballache.
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Tue May 19, 2026 10:56 pm Oliver  |
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Tasmota templates
More Tasmota bits.
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Tue Feb 24, 2026 10:59 am Oliver  |
| Self-hosting |
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awesome-selfhosted
A long list of things you could be hosting yourself.
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Sun Aug 02, 2026 7:00 pm Oliver  |
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Traefik
The reverse of my dreams.
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Tue Jul 07, 2026 5:24 am Oliver  |
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k3s
Kubernetes that fits fucking anywhere.
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Sun Sep 13, 2026 8:29 pm Oliver  |
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r/selfhosted
Where people show off racks you can't afford, and have incredibly strong opinions about them.
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Wed Jun 24, 2026 4:25 pm Oliver  |
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selfh.st
A weekly newsletter and a directory of self hosted software.
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Fri Jun 26, 2026 6:56 pm Oliver  |
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ServeTheHome Forums
Homelab hardware discussion forum.
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Mon Jun 15, 2026 6:58 pm Oliver  |
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Level1Techs Forums
(Embedded) Linux, homelab and hardware.
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Wed May 27, 2026 1:27 am Oliver  |
| Arcade cabinets |
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Aussie Arcade
Australian arcade collectors and a very good source of arcade cab info in my experience.
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Fri Jun 12, 2026 1:58 pm Oliver  |
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Build Your Own Arcade Controls
A forum for building your own sticks, panels and cabs.
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Sun Jul 05, 2026 6:39 pm Oliver  |
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UKVAC
The UK's arcade collecting forum.
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Wed Jan 28, 2026 9:27 am Oliver  |
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KLOV forums
International Arcade Museum's forums.
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Sat Aug 15, 2026 2:31 am Oliver  |
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The Arcade Blogger
Arcade history, warehouse finds and rescues. another UK based one :)
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Thu Aug 27, 2026 1:48 pm Oliver  |
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Arcades Anonymous
A Discord full of arcade folk.
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Fri Mar 13, 2026 1:38 am Oliver  |
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Retro Gaming Network
A big retro gaming Discord.
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Sun Jan 18, 2026 7:47 pm Oliver  |
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Ultimarc
Fantastic retailer and producer of arcade bits and bobs in the UK.
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Wed Aug 19, 2026 11:46 am Oliver  |
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Bazzite
SteamOS but not, I use this on a few machines.
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Fri Aug 21, 2026 2:52 pm Oliver  |
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Case Hardware Arcade
An old pinball machine and buidl walkthrough
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Tue Apr 28, 2026 10:50 am Oliver  |
| Forum software |
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phpBB
Most of the forums I grew up on ran this, this links page is pretending to be a phpbb board.
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Sun Jul 12, 2026 12:17 pm Oliver  |
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MyBB
The other one, for those of us who didn't want dodgy nulled software on our sites.
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Sat Feb 14, 2026 3:38 pm Oliver  |
| Linkage |
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danlegt.com
A site that inspired me to make this shithole. It's much nicer than my site.
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Sun Jan 11, 2026 3:31 pm Oliver  |
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RetroHack.EU
GSM phone mods, Commodore 64 projects and phreaking.
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Fri Feb 20, 2026 12:38 am Oliver  |
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CommodoreZ
Cactus homebrew computer.
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Thu Mar 05, 2026 11:28 pm Oliver  |
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ostrowski.net.pl
Computers, websites, electronics and programming.
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Sun Aug 02, 2026 9:37 pm Oliver  |
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domi's webpage
Project SERVFAIL looks good, some cool stuff here.
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Wed Feb 11, 2026 6:41 am Oliver  |
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Polyducks
art, games and an art jam
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Tue Aug 04, 2026 2:12 am Oliver  |
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Dan Q
Blog of a hacker, magician, geocacher and gamer.
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Mon Apr 20, 2026 6:40 am Oliver  |
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Nea's home page
lots of 88x31 buttons
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Thu Feb 12, 2026 2:42 am Oliver  |
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clara's web page
networking and crypto (no not that kind of crypto)
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Mon Mar 30, 2026 10:35 pm Oliver  |
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Eloy Degen
Retro tech hacker with a bunch of good reading.
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Thu Jul 30, 2026 1:47 am Oliver  |
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breq.dev
Some cool projects here
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Tue Sep 15, 2026 9:40 pm Oliver  |
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adryd
witch hat
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Fri Feb 13, 2026 4:07 pm Oliver  |
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ALF 97
frozen in August 1997
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Sat Jan 10, 2026 1:43 pm Oliver  |
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melankorin.net
blog I read for a while
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Fri Jul 31, 2026 4:44 am Oliver  |
| Everything else |
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Red Dwarf
I just like red dwarf.
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Mon Feb 16, 2026 4:04 am Oliver  |
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World of Spectrum
Spectrum games with original magazines and manuals. You can play these games on the emu on the toys page
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Sun Feb 22, 2026 12:13 am Oliver  |