Bookmarks

Inspired by this Marginalia article about the small website discoverability crisis, I wanted to assemble a list of smaller, personal websites from people with interests similar to mine in hope of spreading the love around.

Friends

• 300g curry rice - canon's indie game development circle
• BachelorSoft
• crazz
• Dan Dickinson: The Primary Vivid Weblog
• Frums
• halcy.de
• Hinge Problems
• Luc-Olivier Dumais-Blais
• Lunatic Obscurity
• meauxdal
• midyif doodleblog
• Sblorgh
• silurica + -an
• yetaga.in

Artist-owned stores

• Adorablush
• concon
• Crisalys
• CryptoStore
• Damaride Neurommancer
• Koyamori
• marjolycookie - cross-stitched video game sprites
• Meyoco
• miaumiauzmiau
• miyaulait
• NekopunchDoujin
• SaigaDOS
• Wavestore

Games

Fighting games

• Underground Arena.net - a veteran Virtua Fighter player from Japan shares their thoughts with the Western VF community now that they have moved here
• 今から始めるバーチャファイター - a mini website and pamphlet for the original arcade release of VF5 teaching you the need-to-know moves and mechanics

Game design and development

• Eoan Wave II
• Game Developer Research Institute
• Lou's Pseudo 3d Page

Mahjong

• Riichi Mahjong Strategy Books by Daina Chiba
• The Gamesoft Robo Fun Club Newsletter: What's So Great About Riichi Mahjong?

Retro gaming and preservation

• archive.org member phoenecia's full archive of Famitsu Xbox issues (2002-2005)
• devil's blush - a collection of cool video game screenshots
• DISC-CONTENT - a PS1 and 90s-00s culture fansite
• FC2 JSON pack - easy way to get games loaded into Fightcade 2
• Game Boy Resource - wiki for Game Boy hardware mods
• GameRepair.info - wiki for repairing and maintaining arcade cabinets
• Gaming Alexandria - preserving game magazines and prototypes
• Kimimi The Game-Eating She-Monster
• PC-98 Emulation for Beginners
• Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst under Wine
• Rodrigo Copetti's Architecture of Consoles analysis series

Lifestyle

Health/Fitness

• Vitacore Industries - Canadian manufacturer of N95, N99 respirators

Personal productivity

• GTD in 15 minutes - A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done
• ratfactor: My Notebook System
• Soren Bjornstad's zettelkasten and commonplace book

Technology

Open source licensing

• Chris Morgan: Don’t use the Unlicense

Permacomputing

• 100 Rabbits and XXIIVV
• CommunityWiki's Simple Systems Manifesto
• Low-Tech Magazine's solar-powered website - may be offline if the weather is bad
• Permacomputing Wiki

Programming

• Rosetta Code - implementations of common things in as many programming languages as possible to demonstrate differences in languages

Retro tech and preservation

• Chris Covell
• Discatte
• Europa's Macintosh Mansion
• Foone Turing's wiki
• FreeDOS-repo - a repository of FreeDOS compatible freeware and open source software
• Gravis and his YouTube channel Cathode Ray Dude
• John Ankarström
• koko's shrine
• Somnolescent
  • w2krepo - a repository of software for Windows 2000
• What is deinterlacing?
• WinWorld - abandonware library for DOS, Windows, Mac, OS/2, and other PC operating systems

Smol Internet (personal Web, gemini, gopher)

• Search engines:
  • FrogFind - a DuckDuckGo frontend over plain HTTP that converts modern websites to HTML2 syntax for use with retro computers
  • Marginalia
  • Wiby
• Contemporary Home Computing
• Fraidycat - Firefox/Chrome extension that provides a "slow" social media experience
• Gossip's Web - a directory of handmade web pages
• Mac Open Web - a directory of Mac apps that promote the open Web
• Plain Text Sports
• Project Gemini - a protocol aiming to sit between Gopher and the Web for maximum power-to-weight ratio
• Ray's Miscellany: Webrings - a look back at webrings in the 2010s-2020s
• Seirdy's Home: A look at search engines with their own indexes
• Seirdy's Home: An opinionated list of best practices for textual websites
• Sijmen J. Mulder: Hyperlinked Text - a list of primarily text-only, lightweight websites
• Special Fish - a different take on social networking
• Web 1.1 - Building the New Old Web - MacRumors forum thread linking out to websites using retro-friendly Web standards

Transportation & Urbanism

• DOBOHAKU - a study of Tokyo's urban infrastructure
• Japan Railway & Transport Review