Recommended Links

On this page you'll find a few different categories of websites. You'll find anything from sites run by friends, sites that I think keep true to the web 1.0 and 2.0 style, or maybe anything else. You can click the category links below to jump to each section. I am constantly curating and adding to this list without updating the "newest updates" thing on the home page, so check back often!

# Discovery

A list of link gardens or other indie web discovery sites and search engines to find more stuff to do online.

Wiby: Wiby is a classic web search engine, which focuses on websites that can run in older browsers and designed to bring the joy back to finding websites to visit.
The Wild Wild Web: The Wild Wild Web is a curated directory of user submitted links to cool non-commercial sites created and curated by real people.

# Gaming

A list of gaming-focused websites either from or seeking to emulate the style of the older web.

FlashGameArchive: As you might suspect from the title, Flash Game Archive is a large repository of online flash games that you can play right there in the browser using Flash or Ruffle. All the iconic flash games you remember are there for free, and maybe you'll discover some you haven't seen before, too!
KHInsider: KHInsider is a long-standing go-to resource for listening to and downloading video game soundtracks.
RPGClassics: RPGClassics is a gaming community site from the 90s. It contains game guides, shrines, fan art, fan fiction and more. It's worth checking out. There's also sub-sites with the same vibes.

# Otaku

I guess this is mostly known as "weeb" culture these days but here you'll find anything to do with Japan or Japanese media like anime, manga, or 00s memes originating in Japan.

Emotion: Emotion is a shrine catalogue that started in 2007. Now it hosts 160+ shrines to various characters, anime, manga, video games. A lot of the shrines have really, really cool designs. Definitely worth checking out. Maybe you'll find some new characters or series to get into.
NicoNicoDouga Medley Wiki: NND Medleys were a phenomenon in the mid-late 00s which compiled a bunch of anime and game music into a medley on the Japanese video sharing site "Nico Nico Douga". It became very popular in Japan and large groups would get together to provide singing roles for the lyrics to the songs.

# Personal Site Stuff

A list of websites related to running or writing content for a personal site. Come and join the indie web!

32-Bit Cafe: 32-Bit Cafe is a community of website hobbyists who participate in a shared culture of developing the indie web to make the web fun again, working together to change how we live digitally and online.
100 things you can do on your personal site: As the title suggests, this is a useful list of potential ideas of things to put on your very own personal site. The author also uploads photos and writes other blog posts. It's worth checking out because it's a comfortable little personal site.

# Misc

The sites in this category don't necessarily fit into the other categories, but are generally interesting or unique in some way that I thought was worth noting.

Integrating Technology: This page appears to be the curriculum for a course given at SUNY Cortland. If you scroll down past the curriculum itself there are links that say "Student projects" listed from 2008 through 2017. Clicking into the student projects areas you can find very simple websites designed by students to present their coursework for this course. It's interesting to see and definitely reminds me of learning HTML and Dreamweaver when I was in secondary school, which is why I included it.

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