Remember the old web? The personal, messy, unique internet of yore, where Geocities ruled and everyone had their own website where they shared the things they are most passionate about? If you know me, then you know that I deeply miss the time when there was a lot more signal, and a lot less noise. When five companies didn't account for 90% of the traffic on the internet, and discovery felt like following a treasure map, rather than being spoon-fed a never-ending diet of processed food.
Well, consider this my own treasure map. It's a place for me to share the places on the internet that I find personally interesting. It's a bit small, right now (give it time, my memory isn't what it used to be) but I intend to update it often as I continue down the path of rekindling the delight this magical, ephemeral network used to bring me.
Personal Websites
- ~dustin the site that directly inspired my library page
- ~parimal a tribute to the creative web of the 90s
- ~manu great writer, thought-provoking content
- ~eric retro computing overload
- ~nikita a personal wiki to get completely lost in
Resources
- OldWeb.Today how I test my website for longevity
- Wayback Machine the web, back when it was good
- GifCities a geocities animated GIF search engine
- Internet Archive the planet's largest internet library
- The Forest like StumbleUpon, but better
- indieblog.page also like StumbleUpon, but better
- Marginalia Search a search engine for the unique web
- The Old Net come live in the past
- Website Carbon Calculator how green is your website?
- MudBytes all the MUD snippets you could ask for
- textfiles.com no links list is complete without it
- GitHub 95 github as it was meant to be viewed
- Old'aVista a search engine for old personal websites
- MSCHF a fascinatingly inventive modern art collective
Podcasts
- The Daily Stoic an inspirational daily podcast about the Stoic philosophy
- Coder Radio a weekly talk show about the art and business of software development
- Darknet Diaries true stories from the dark side of the internet
- Imaginary Worlds a podcast about the stories we tell, and why we love them
- The Last Podcast on the Left horror, occult, murder, and other things that go bump in the night
- Linux Unplugged an open show about Linux, powered by community
- Secular Buddhism Buddhist teachings for the secular mind
- Self Hosted discussion and showcase of free and open source technologies you can host yourself
- Soft Skills Engineering a weekly advice podcast for software developers
- What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law making sense of the world by learning Constitutional Law
- Wizard and the Bruiser deep dives into all things geek culture
Miscellaneous
- Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus a fantastic way to consume this great show
- Screenshots from developers & Unix people (2002) the title should say it all
- When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth great short story by Cory Doctorow
- blog.txt the most minimal blogging platform in the known universe
- Tech, Industry well-written article about techlash
- Lacero great Ready Player One fan fiction by Andy Weir
- The Missing Semester of Your CS Education this should be a required course for all new software developers