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ART:
| Site | What is it? |
|---|---|
| Give your sprites depth with sub-pixel animation | Tutorial on pixel art animation |
| Cinni's Oekaki Board | An Oekaki Board for online drawing just like the old days |
| PaintBBS | Draw in local PaintBBS, hit send to save your picture (Japanese) |
| Kidpix | Draw in browser-based, public domain Kidpix |
| Photopea | Draw in Photopea, a browser-based public domain Photoshop |
| Heavy Paint | Draw in Heavy Paint, a free drawing program that imitates the feel of physical painting |
| Dither Me This | Online image dithering tool |
| ASCII Art Editor | Create ASCII art |
| Snewberry's Art Resources | List of art resources |
| Snewberry's Art Inspirations | Gallery of awesome artists |
| Pudoweb's Collection of Awesome Art | Gallery of awesome artists, new additions added every week |
| Glamour Beast's Art Inspirations | Gallery of awesome artists |
BRUSHES:
| Site | What is it? |
|---|---|
| Pixel Glade's dithering brushes | Free/PWYW brushes with dithering effects (Clip Studio Paint, Krita, Aseprite) |
| TamberElla's free brushes | Free/PWYW brushes for foliage, fur and more (Clip Studio Paint, Photoshop, Procreate) |
| TheDawner's brush shop | Free/PWYW and paid brushes with tons of texture (Clip Studio Paint, Photoshop, SAI, Procreate) |
| Jingsketch's brush shop | Paid brushes with tons of texture (Photoshop, Procreate) |
| Tomb of Null's brush shop | Free/PWYW brushes with tons of texture and standalone texture packs (Clip Studio Paint, Photoshop, Krita) |
WEB GRAPHICS:
| Site | What is it? |
|---|---|
| Cameron's World | Collage of Web 1.0 artifacts |
| Lulu's website graphics | Fun stuff in the "web graphix" section |
| GenesisJam's 88x31 buttons | Collection of 88x31 buttons |
| Neonaut's 88x31 buttons | Collection of 88x31 buttons |
| A.N. Lucas' 88x31 buttons | Collection of 88x31 buttons |
| Mystsaphyr's 88x31 buttons | Collection of 88x31 buttons |
| mace486's 88x31 buttons | Collection of 88x31 buttons |
| The ultimate 88x31 button collection | Collection of 88x31 buttons |
| PixelProfile's 88x31 buttons | Collection of 88x31 buttons |
| Sadgrl's 88x31 button maker | Make your own 88x31 buttons! |
| Sukiyaki City's 88X31 buttons | Collection of 88x31 buttons |
| Y2K's 88X31 buttons | Collection of 88x31 buttons |
| Dokodemo's 88X31 buttons | Collection of 88x31 buttons |
| Y2K's stamps | Collection of DA stamps |
| Y2K's blinkies | Collection of blinkies |
| Sukiyaki City's blinkies | Collection of blinkies |
| Free Blinkies | Collection of blinkies |
| More free blinkies | Collection of blinkies |
| Internet Bumper Stickers | Bumper stickers for your site |
| Web Badges World | For all of your 80x15 button needs |
| Another big collection of 80x15 buttons | Another 80x15 button collection |
| Web button generator | Make your own web buttons! |
| 80x15 web badge maker | Make your own 80x15 buttons! |
| GifyPet | Add a customizable virtual pet to your site |
| Wobble Town | Add a growable virtual pet to your site, don't forget to feed it! |
| Geocities Graphics | Graphics from Geocities |
| GIFCities | GIFs from Geocities hosted by the Internet Archive |
| Art of Geocities | Graphics from Geocities |
| The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack | Pack of cool fonts |
| Error Gallery | Gallery of Windows error messages |
| Art Bits by HyperCard | Gallery of Old Macintosh clip art |
| Seize The Day, original version | Calendar software with beautiful pixel art animation (free download) |
| Living Worlds (part of Seize the Day) in HTML5 | The pixel art part of Seize the Day as a standalone thing (free download) |
| Living Worlds (part of Seize the Day) in iOs and Android app format | The pixel art part of Seize the Day as a standalone thing (free download) |
ESSAYS & MANIFESTOS:
| Site | What is it? |
|---|---|
| What is the Small Web? | Essay about the personal websites |
| I'm a fucking webmaster | Manifesto about what it means to be a webmaster of your own site |
| Rediscovering the Small Web | Essay about personal websites |
| Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web | Essay about personal websites |
| Goodbye Corporate Web | Essay about personal websites |
| C3RT@1NLY 5OM3TH1NG | Essay about personal websites |
| The Indie Web Manifesto | Manifesto from 1997 (!!!) about personal websites |
| About Marginalia Search | Marginalia Search's manifesto about personal websites |
| My Website is a Personal Museum | Essay about personal websites |
| My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be? | Essay about personal websites |
| Of Digital Streams, Campfires and Gardens | Essay about digital gardens |
| My blog is a digital garden, not a blog | Essay about digital gardens |
| Digital Gardening for Non-Technical Folks | Essay about digital gardens |
| Don't Make Art for Likes: Social Media Pros and Cons | Essay for artists about one's relationship with social media |
| An Introduction to the Early Web Aesthetics of Geocities | Essay about Geocities aesthetics |
| Digital Wellbeing | Page about good digital habits |
PROSE & POETRY:
| Site | What is it? |
|---|---|
| Soft Corruptor: An Unfolding Memory Error | Poem by Everest Pipkin about going out of bounds |
| The Average Fourth Grader Is a Better Poet Than You (and Me Too) | Gorgeous poems by 4th graders |
VIDEO:
| Site | What is it? |
|---|---|
| Stories That Use Time To Hurt You | Video essay on narratives that use time as a storytelling mechanic |
| Returning To A Home That Doesn't Exist | Video essay on stories where going home isn't an option anymore |
| Jacob Geller's Channel | Jacob Geller is a video essayist who writes about art, games, politics, life, and where they intersect |
| You used to be nice. | Or did you never used to be? |
| The loneliness came back. | Immaculate combo of airplane footage and audio, melancholic vibes |
| Airport | Beautiful footage taken inside an airport, especially the tarmac |
| More Airport | Short video of additional airport footage by the same person as above |
| The Internet As It Was in 2001 - Old Websites | Surfing the old web! |
| Exploring Abandoned Game Servers | What it says on the tin. |
| Wandering Obscure Abandoned Worlds | What it says on the tin. |
| Exploring the Abandoned Internet [Vol. 1] | What it says on the tin. First video in a series. |
| Exploring Dead Games 1 | What it says on the tin. First video in a series. |
| Exploring The Old Internet | What it says on the tin. |
| Exploring Forgotten Minecraft Servers | What it says on the tin. |
| BASQUIAT's work ethic | Half short biography on the artist Basquiat, half advice for other artists. |
HTML & CSS:
| Site | What is it? |
|---|---|
| Bechnokid's Freezeframe tutorial | Tutorial for setting up Freezeframe, which pauses GIFs and allows visitors to run them whenever they want (I use it on this site!) |
| Bechnokid's code snippets | A bunch of code snippets for free use |
| Codepen | HTML and CSS editor that shows your changes in real time |
| Rarebit | Free HTML webcomic template |
| HTML generator | Generate HTML code easily |
| Sadgrl's layout builder | Creates a basic site layout for you to use as a base |
| Sadgrl's Webmaster resources | Lots of resources for your site |
| Sadgrl's HTML & CSS guides | Lots of HTML & CSS guides |
| Sadgrl's HTML & CSS snippets | Lots of HTML & CSS snippets for free use |
| Rainbow Text Generator | Generates rainbow text complete with HTML and BBCode |
| How to Delete Follower Notifications on Neocities | Tutorial on how to get rid of individual notifications when either you follow a site or a site follows you |
| Native Neocities Hit-Counter | Tutorial on how to set up a hit-counter |
| Precoded Webfonts | Webfonts ready for use on your website |
| Word to HTML | What You See Is What You Get editor that converts text you edit visually into HTML |
| Free Javascript/DHTML effects | Lots of JS & HTML effects for free use |
| Melonking's Free Software | Includes a HTML gallery generator and a Neocities site downloader |
| Photoviewer | Javascript code to make an image gallery |
| Nonkiru's Website Layouts | Code for a layout with draggable divs |
| Character Wiki Template Codes for Neocities | HTML template codes for character and worldbuilding pages |
MISC:
| Site | What is it? |
|---|---|
| Tiny Tools Roundup | Directory of open source, experimental, and tiny tools |
| Fraidycat | Browser extension that lets you follow people on any platform without having to sign up on social media |
| Textfiles | Archive of conversations and files from the BBS era |
| The Internet Archive | Massive archive of everything you can imagine |
| The Wayback Machine | Massive archive of webpages, old and new |
| BBS Documentary | Free documentary about BBS communities |
| Aaru | Software package for complete preservation of storage data (including physical media) |
| The World Wide Web project (by CERN) | The first ever internet webpage! |
| Geocities Archive | Archive of Geocities pages |
| Wiby | Search engine that prioritizes Web 1.0 style sites |
| Marginalia Search | Search engine that prioritizes Web 1.0 style sites |
| Hot Glue | Visual tool for making collage-esque webpages |
| Neocities | Free web hosting for personal sites |
| Leprd | Free web hosting for personal sites |
| Teacake | Free web hosting for personal sites |
| Nekoweb | Free web hosting for personal sites |
| Win95 (app) | Win95 as an app, written in JavaScript |
| GUI Gallery | Gallery of Graphical User Interfaces from several operating systems |
| GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface Gallery | Gallery of Graphical User Interfaces from several operating systems, programs, and componentfunctions inside operating systems |
| How To Backup Your Tumblr Blog | Several methods of backing up Tumblr blogs and Twitter galleries |
| Webdesign Museum | A collection of old webpage interfaces from the 90's up to the 2010's |
COOL SITES TO VISIT:
Note: Heed the webmasters' warnings. Some of these sites may not be accessible or mobile-friendly.
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