~explore the web~

art art art

• Art Scenes - amazing collection of art for galleries
• 50 Watts - incredibly collection of creative illustrations from books around the world!
• CARI - online community dedicated to developing a visual lexicon of consumer ephemera from the 1970s until now
• Kojima Ayami Collection - so many beautiful illustrations from a favorite artist of mine
• Living Worlds - most beautiful animated pixel art scenes. make sure you click show options
• Web Design Mueseum - over 2k web design trends from 1991 and 2006
• Net Art Anthology - websites that are archived with info abt them and their creators
• Yoshitaka Amano - another artist I really love
• Instructables - creative user submitted projects with instructions!
• Pixeljoint - great pixel art community
• We Make Money Not Art - art exhibits + blog
• Tools For Creating Ideas - start making art!
• Pose Search Reference - for pesky human drawings
• Film Grab - stills from many movies great for studies
• Are.na - online software for saving and organizing the content that is important to you
• Poline - generates nice color palletes
• Blockbench - low poly 3D modeler
• Texturelabs - free textures for art, design
• Bookshop - shop local bookstores online
• Ryan Photographic - nature images from around the world
• Sandgrains - the microscope photography of gary greenburg
• Sakugabooru - WIPS, BTS, art of animators for anime

world - archives - history

• Queer Zine Archive - LGBT history & activism
• Indigenous Food Lab - high-quality Indigenous foods
• Digital Transgender Archive - we've always been here
• What The Caves Are Trying To Tell Us - beautiful being
• Atlas Obscura - a definitive guide to the world's hidden wonders
• The Met Collection - explore amazing collections + public domain images
• Radioooo - Play what's on the radio from anywhere, any decade!
• Artvee - Both classical + modern public domain works
• NY Public Library - I like "collections for designers"
• Europeana - European cultural history
• Textfile Directory - texts of everything and anything.
• Below The Surface - Archaelogical Amsterdam finds
• Mad Scientist Encyclopedia - interesting irl mad scientists!
• Pinball Map - not just to find arcades, but also an extensive history and pictures of games
• Memory of The World Library - lots of books much smarter than me
• David Rumsey Cartography - real maps of everything ever
• British Mineralogy - rock illustrations beautiful
• Eli Erlick - coloring the trans past
• Asian Film Archive - To save, explore and share the art of Asian Cinema
• Birds Of North America - bird directory!
• Lighthouse Directory - every lighthouse.
• Simplon Postcards - ian boyle's love of transportation and collection of postcards
• The Museum Of Unnatural Mystery -
• SLUM - Shadow Library Uptime Monitor
• GALREVO - gyaru archive and reference
• The Old Robots - old robot technology
• Diesel Duck - marine engineering, seafaring, pictures
• Slingshot Collective - Radical newspaper's list of organizations in your area
• Mutual Aid Hub - Mutual aid in US areas
• Every Webkinz Ever - pics of all plushes
• Swanlovers - extensive knowledge, really sweet

fun

• AIDN - fav!! fun miku music toys
• komeada - one of my fav projects lol
• Long Bets - years-long bets on user-submitted predictions. money donated to charity!
• Falling Down The Internet Hole - "a website database selected on the below criteria: old-school design, bad taste, kitschy and/or weird."
• 404pagefound - active vintage websites and old webpages
• Button Museum - tons of old buttons! i've posted my favs on tumblr as well
• Aporee - amazing and wonderful collection of user-submitted field recordings and sound recordings from around the world.
• The Nostalgia Machine - pick a childhood year and listen to what pop was playing then. (mine is 2006 and 2010)
• Bus Stop - small message board that only lasts 24hrs
• Wilderness Land - a tribute to web surfing. I heard theres over 500 links here (search with your mouse over squares)
• Post Secret Voicemail - listen to a collection of voicemails left for this website, and submit your own
• Big Rig Travels - travel with trucker steve
• Spork spork.
• Pointless sites - is it really pointless if you're having fun?
• nobodyhere - interactive website
• Molecules - with silly or unusual names! :)
• Leafblog - 1000 leaves found on walks.
• MS Paint Online - classic paint. i remember recoloring pokemon sprites on this program
• Emojimix - make some emoji combos!
• VGSM Project - attempt to catalog screenshots of every soda vending machine that has ever appeared in a video game..
• Pokemon Booster Pack - nostalgic and free gatcha
• Just For Fun - a collection of creative coding
• Bird cams wildlife bird cam livestreams!
• Pianos - find a public piano to play
• Carcal - rabb.it alternative
• Deletionpedia - wiki for deleted wiki articles, try the special pages
• Geogoo - randomized google map art
• thingdb - a collection of images sorted by category
• which miku nendo are you? - little quiz hehe
• what pokemon are you? - another quiz
• My 90's TV - watch tv in a time warp. also has 60s-00s
• Zoom Earth - live beautiful weather map
• What If? - serious answers to absurd questions, fun read!
• Watch Grass Grow - WOW!
• The Wiki Game - Try to get from one page to the next quick!
• BBCtvLiscence - BBC blackmail and false threats through the years!
• 11 foot 8 - beautiful destruction bridge
• After The Tone - one of my favs. random voicemails
• HORG - taxonomical bread tags collection
• The Synthesizer Sympathizer - everything about synthesizers, with pics
• Swapbot - online organization of mail swaps btwn a community of creative individuals.
• Postcrossing - swap postcards with random ppl
• HORG - bread tags, by species

games

• Type Help - my favorite ever playable mystery game in browser
• My Abandonware - awesome downloads for old games. i've posted some of my favs on my tumblr
• Internet Archive Software - largest vintage and historical software library in the world: millions of programs, CD-ROM images, documentation and multimedia.
• eLouai - Candybar Doll Maker - I don't usually like dollmakers but this one is sooo cute
• Nationstates - fun little nation simulator
• vgperson games - free games translated by vgperson with many classic rpgmaker games
• Bemuse - (beat! music! sequence!) fun in-browser rythym game!
• Noclip - explore your favorite old game maps! epic!
• Launchbox - huge games database for finding games
• Hidden Place - wiki dedicated to the preservation of video game development media, some have downloads
• LSD Dream Emulator in browser!
• Mario Paint Music Composer - (i wish i had the patience for this)
• No Paint - make art by just clicking yes or no!
• Choice of Dragon - fun little choose your own adventure text game where you're a dragon!
• Deep - little interactive story exploring the bottom of the ocean
• Little Alchemy 2 - elements combining game
• baddeath's neocities - despite the title, a petz 2 website!
• The Cover Project - archive of video game covers
• DOS Zone - DOS games in browser!
• Flashpoint - Flashpoint has saved more than 100,000 games and 10,000 animations for preservation!
• Before I Play - this wiki tells you things you should know before you play a video game
• O2 Jam World - in browser rythym game yay
• Parseword - satisfying and frustrating
• engine.lol - tiny game maker
• The Collection Chamber - huge games and movies archive with extensive reviews AND downloads!
• Doctordle - medical services failed you, learn one game at a time
• Before I Play - anything good to know before playing a video game blind
• 5 Minute Mystery - in browser solvable!

pirate

• Easy USSR piracy guide - quick easy to understand piracy guide great for getting started!
• r/piracy - best megathread for everything
• piracy.moe - anime streaming site directory
• erai-raws - anime raws
• lookmovie proxy list - movie streaming site I use
• ok.ru - rare, old, all movies ever unlisted on a russian website
• softmodding your ds - also a emulation wiki
• Vimm's Emulation Lair - huge collection of roms and the emulators you need to run them. they even have persona 5 for the ps3
• Unblockit - proxies to blocked sites

graphics

• memryloss my graphics/edits and sourced older internet finds including: anime, games, scans, old web, transparents!
• Necronomicon - Huge Horror/Halloween web resources!
• Pata2 - very cute gifs
• Gif Cities - search for old web gifs, by our beloved Internet Archive
• Jan's Graphics - very cute and extensive collection, esp blinkies!
• Free Blinkies - gotta put this here for the Bitch section.
• Bonnibel's Graphics - large sorted collection
• PixelGaro - f2u pixel sets from Atsuhiro Yoshioka (YoshiPon)
• Prima Donna Pixels - (wayback) cute dolls/adoptions
• Enchanting Castle - smaller pixel gifs collection
• Ahmygodess - great retro anime images!
• Darkwolf - so many dividers
• Diabella Loves Cats - very cute website with lots of vintage cats
• Dr Sloth - huge neopets image archive by jellyneo
• PNG Wing - great to find transparent renders, can be NSFW at your own risk
• Spriter's Resource - ripped sprites from so many games
• Emoji Treasure Box - cute animal pixels, site in jp

more web

• Millionshort - fav websearch, take out most popular websites
• Geekring - webring!
• Districts - a neocities directory by category!
• Agora Road - sweet internet forum i have yet to do much exploring on!
• Startpage - private search engine, no tracking or search history.
• Wiby - search engine for the classic web. suprise me button!
• Marginalia Search - small, old and obscure websites w focus on non-commerical websites
• Walky - make your own simple webspace easy!
• Sunday Sites - two hour website coding sessions around a theme for fun
• Itinerae - free website coded layouts!

link directories

• Yesterweb - great source, also a webring!
• sadgrl online -
• Vomitboy's KEWL WEBSITES - i love his website too
• r/OpenDirectories - one of my fav places to see collections of random stuff!
• severe - very extensive!
• Anilinks - anime site directory, lots of broken links but huge!
• Peelopaalu - yet to go through all these
• likehome - includes more graphics links
• Catstuff - holy mole a bunch of cat stuff started in 1995. check out the graphics
• BoredALot - light sites for boredom
• Ribo Zone - cool site with cool links