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Music | Social | Tech & Design | Vidya | Miscellaneous | Dead Sites

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Music

Mod Archive

Probably the best place to find modules on the internet.

The Mod Archive
:: modules.pl ::

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

modules.pl
Winamp Skin Museum

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

WINAMP SKINS
SomaFM

Commercial-free online radio. My favorite station from here is Underground 80s.

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.

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.

Social

ChiyoNET

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

chiyonet
DameDaNeSpace

One of the best Myspace recreations on the internet.

DameDaNeSpace - Register Now!
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.

MelonLand
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.

I Power Blogger

Tech & Design

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 use fvwm btw.

PC desktops
04

One of the best looking sites in existence, which is also (seemingly) abandoned. There are some cool bitmap fonts featured here.

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.

screenshot from a campus computer
PoolsuiteTM

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. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO even though the site is still cool.

Nathan's Toasty Technology Page

Site that I stole the landing page favicon Bill Gates pentagram from, as well as an overall cool site. The dude running this site, Nathan, reviews OS GUIs, hates Internet Explorer, loves Mozilla, and makes Doom levels.

EVIL | Internet Explorer IS EVIL! 𖤐
Web Bloat Score Calculator

Useful site for determining whether or not your site is bloated. Underneath the calculator is an article that goes over the history of internet bloat, as well as a formula that can be used to manually calculate the score in case the built-in calculator isn't working. Very considerate.

Vidya

Accursed Farms

One of my favorite YouTubers ever.

Accursed Farms
TEN

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. More old sites should receive this treatment.

Grand Theft Auto Flash Websites

Fanmade remakes of Rockstar's GTA Flash sites.

Flying Omelette

Gaming and TV focused website run by at least two different dudes. Each dude has their own subdomain on the site, but the main site itself is like a collaboration between the two where they mostly review vidya. There are some cool shrines here, as well.

Random Hoo-Haas Rage Quitter 87's Sites
♥HARMONY ZONE♥

Website of thecatamites, creator of Goblet Grotto, Space Funeral, and Murder Dog IV. Besides the games, there are some cool writings and art on here.

The VG Resource

Forum / gallery dedicated to ripping assets from games and game related products. Always remember to giv credit & donut steel.

GameSpy

Another website of a shut down online gaming network that's somehow still up. This one shut down in 2013, which makes it a kind of snapshot of what most mainstream websites looked like right before flat design destroyed skeuemorphism.

There are a few subdomains on this site dedicated to specific games and series such as:

  • Doom

  • Grand Theft Auto

  • Half-Life

  • Quake

  • Unreal

Weirdly, the subdomains use HTTPS even though the main site doesn't.

PLAY GAMES NOW! GAMESPY ARCADE

Miscellaneous

Holoytpic Occlupanic Research Group

Seemingly everything that one could need to know about occlupanids.

Bento & Starchky

The seemingly 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.

Bento & Starchky - the Online Comic! The Official Francis E. Dec Fanclub! Bob the Corpse - An Online Comic!
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.

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!

DeadMalls.com

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

Dead Sites

...SHRAK: Expansion Modules for Quake...

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).

vacrec.com

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

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.

i happen to be nice-n-fun.com

A really minimalist personal site with funny shit on it.

.xaserland.

The presumably abandoned personal site of Xaser Acheron, who might be the most interesting person in the Doom community. My second site layout pretty much copied the layout from here because of how nice I thought it was.