Links and Such

The official website of Shrak, an unofficial expansion pack for Quake from 1997. The site was up from 1997 to 2023, but stopped being maintained at around 2001.

This site serves as a really good example of how sites were decorated before CSS became standard. Even if you look at the site with w3m, it’ll look good as long as images are enabled (gifs won’t move though).

Paranormal, Conspiracies, Survivalism - Textbunker.net

A short lived textboard that was made from scratch by a crazy dude waiting for the apocalypse to happen. The website didn’t get as popular as the owner wanted, so he pulled the plug on the site and made the source code public for others to fiddle with. A surprisingly big chunk of the site is still lurkable through the Wayback Machine.

Cool record label that was active from the 1990s to the early 2000s. The site was forcefully downgraded into being a few HTML files in the 2000s after the computer running the original site exploded. The 90s version is fun to lurk around on, and the 2000s version is nice to look at.

Almost everyone on the label collaberated on a really cool Residents cover album that you can listen to here: Eyesore: A Stab At The Residents

Bento & Starchky

The abandoned site of zer0, a Swedish cartoonist. This place hosts two web comics and the official Francis E. Dec fanclub, which seems to have every documented Dec rant besides Hangman Rope Sneak Deadly Gangsterism.

BrendanFraser.com

Brendan Fraser’s official website, which got updated fairly recently to include a YouTube embed of his 2023 Oscars acceptance speech, but has been mostly inactive since 2012.

DeadMalls.com

A place where a bunch of people share stories and occasional photos of dead malls they’ve been to.

the HOLOTYPIC OCCLUPANID RESEARCH GROUP

Seemingly everything that one could need to know about occlupanids.

Lennon Murder Truth

Website that claims Stephen King and Ronald Reagan plotted the assassination of John Lennon.

LINGsCARS

BRILLIANT UK car leasing website from Ling. WOW! An experience! On TV; BBC Dragons’ Den. Best lease car deals! Ling bites! WAH!

Inpuj

Netlabel for IDM and other similar genres. A handful of artists from Merck Records are on here, including Machinedrum (under different aliases), Ilkae, and Proswell. Newer releases are on Bandcamp, but a lot of the older stuff is free to download from this site as either MP3 or IT.

Mod Archive

Massive repository of modules spanning nearly three decades. Most PC demoscene and keygen songs ever are probably on here.

:: modules.pl ::

A similar site to Mod Archive, but this one has a radio stream that plays random modules.

Rainwave

Vidya radio that’s divided by game rips, chiptunes, remixes, covers, and everything at once. Specific genres don’t get dedicated streams, but each song is voted on by users so it usually isn’t too sporadic.

Rockbox - Free Music Player Firmware

Rockbox is a FOSS firmware for a huge variety of MP3 players that allows for custom skins / interfaces, video playback, scrobbling, vidya, etc. If you’ve ever seen anybody playing Doom on an MP3 player before, they probably had Rockbox installed on it.

Soma FM

Commercial-free online radio. My favorite station from here is Underground 80s, which is all just new wave and post-punk music.

Winamp Skin Museum

Gallery site for all of the Winamp skins hosted on the Internet Archive.

Blogger

Blogging site that was popular when blogging was popular. There are still blogs from over a decade ago that are fun to read, and there currently aren’t any upcoming anti-consumer updates that look like they’ll clean the slate, so things are good here.

ChiyoNET

The very best website on ALL of the internets. My website SUCKS, go to this one instead NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

DameDaNeSpace

One of the best Myspace recreations on the internet.

hjonk

Microblogging site with a great community. It allows for custom profile CSS, profile music (with Winamp skins!), and avatar borders.

Melonland

Cool forum for people who run minimalist / old fashioned websites. Ignoring the fact that I haven’t logged on since forever ago, I would say this site is worth checking out.

Myspace

Myspace still exists, it’s still somewhat functional, but it’s mostly a barren wasteland compared to what it used to be. The official Myspace account just reuploads news articles from SPIN, and the majority of people who engage with the account are dead internet robots trying to promote questionable products.

When it comes to running your own account on here, the lack of custom HTML and CSS means all you get to do is set a profile pic and a background image. Two Myspace staples are still intact after all this time: your top 8 and a profile song. The song submission process is currently broken, and all of Myspace’s locally hosted music was corrupted during a data transfer 2019, which means the only songs left are ones that use YouTube embeds. Said YouTube embeds are of older videos that have likely been DMCA’d following Myspace’s decline in popularity, so finding songs on Myspace that you can actually listen to and put on your profile ends up being difficult depending on your taste in music.

My account is particularly broken, since there’s no way for me to make text-only posts. I have no idea how to fix it, so all I do is comment on other people’s posts and upload images. That being said, I think Myspace works as a decent enough image host.

One of my favorite looking websites, which is also (seemingly) abandoned. There are some cool bitmap fonts featured here.

PCdesktops

Ancient scrapyard of Windows XP era desktop ricing. It’s safe enough to assume that nothing featured here will run on modern software, but I personally have had an easy enough time adjusting things I’ve found here to my setup (I’m using fvwm as of writing this).

WINDOWS 93

Faux operating system with tons of features. You can rice your desktop using CSS, make programs using Javascript, emulate legally acquired and dumped vidya, browse a Myspace recreation that is no longer active but still available for lurking purposes, browse as much as of the embeddable web as possible (which includes this website you’re currently on) through an iframe web browser, and play a full blown MUD made for the site through either the site itself or Telnet on port 8082. There also used to be a chatroom and imageboard on here, but those ended up imploding on themselves due to the community being really cool and they probably wont come back. This site is great to use on public computers if you hate modern Windows or OSX, and is generally a great website all around.

Poolsuite^TM

Windows 93’s arch nemesis. I’m not sure how things between communities are now, but I remember finding this site through a shill post on Bindowzuchan / Bonzichan that shat all over Windows 93 and claimed that Poolsuite (then Poolside) was better. The presentation is definitely better than stock Windows 93, and the built-in music and video playlists are cool, but there are like a jillion less features here than on Windows 93. It’s mostly just a music player. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO even though I still really like the site.

Accursed Farms

Official website of one of my favorite YouTubers.

THE NERVE TOWER

“Whose entrails are these? A look into the flesh found in Baroque.”

Really cool fansite dedicated to the original versions of Baroque for Sega Saturn and PSX. Includes things I didn’t even know existed, such as the official Worlds Chat skins that Sting made.

The “abandoned” website of TEN, an old school online gaming network similar to DWANGO. Although the service is dead, this site is surprisingly still up out of the volition of the original owners, with the website’s landing page going over the service’s history and aftermath. I would appreciate if many more old websites got this treatment.