Links and Such
Categories:
Music | Social | Tech & Design | Vidya | Miscellaneous | Dead Sites
All links are gonna take you straight to the sites. No targetting _blank here.
Music
Probably the best place to find modules on the internet.
A similar site to Mod Archive, but this one has a radio stream that plays random modules.
Gallery site for all of the Winamp skins hosted on the Internet Archive.
Commercial-free online radio. My favorite station from here is Underground 80s.
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.
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.
Tech & Design
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.
One of the best looking sites in existence, which is also (seemingly) abandoned. There are some cool bitmap fonts featured here.
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.
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.
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.
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
One of my favorite YouTubers ever.
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.
Fanmade remakes of Rockstar's GTA Flash sites.
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.
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.
Forum / gallery dedicated to ripping assets from games and game related products. Always remember to giv credit & donut steel.
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:
Weirdly, the subdomains use HTTPS even though the main site doesn't.
Miscellaneous
Seemingly everything that one could need to know about occlupanids.
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.
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.
Website that claims Stephen King and Ronald Reagan plotted the assassination of John Lennon.
BRILLIANT UK car leasing website from Ling. WOW! An experience! On TV; BBC Dragons' Den. Best lease car deals! Ling bites! WAH!
A place where a bunch of people share stories and occasional photos of dead malls they've been to.
Dead Sites
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).
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
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.
A really minimalist personal site with funny shit on it.
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.
Social
The very best website on ALL of the internets. My website SUCKS, go to this one instead NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
One of the best Myspace recreations on the internet.
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.
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.