Links

It’s gotten harder to locate good content on the Web. SEO has changed the rules of what gets seen and what doesn’t, and quantity has overwhelmingly outmoded quality. Here is my effort to ease these woes, or at the very least collect sites that I consider notable. Most of them are purely relevant to my hobbies.

Data Preservation

• Internet Archive - the first place to go when looking for literally anything
• ArchiveTeam - the brave souls devoting themselves to this cause

Resources for Old Computers

• WinWorld - Windows abandonware paradise
• Macintosh Garden - the Mac OS (X) equivalent
• BitSavers - PDF scans of old manuals and magazines, covering every corner of computing esoterica
• fsck.technology - a massive file directory of mostly installation media, but for everything you could possibly think of
• TheOldNet - a retro-friendly proxy for archive.org’s Wayback Machine and several other things

Indie/Small/Retro Web (whatever you wanna call the Web 1.0 revival)

• NeoCities - the beating heart of the new era of homepages just as GeoCities was
• YesterWeb - one of several hubs that catalogue the old web renaissance
• Marginalia Search Engine - a web crawler specialized towards indexing less-traveled corners of the web
• Wiby - similar to Marginalia

Blogs You Should Check Out

• The Digital Antiquarian - fantastic detailings of video game and computer history
• Computer Chronicles Revisited - a modern retrospective on the PBS series that captured the dawn of personal computing over 2 decades
• Chris Siebenmann’s blog - a constant stream of tips, tricks and trivia pertaining to Unix network administration
• Ken Sheriff’s blog - IC teardowns, reverse engineering, Apollo guidance computer and random bits of computer history
• Cameron Kaiser’s blog - similar vein with more focus on classic Macs and Palm OS