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• Personal Websites
Internet Explorer is EVIL! Old Internet Explorer hate site, view on the wayback machine to see his rants going back to 1998
The Graphical User Interface Gallery Overview of computer GUIs going back decades
Android Arts Fanart & game concepts
SF Debris Sci-fi reviews
CornPoneFlicks Movie reviewer and Harlock fan
FirebrandX Technical posts about old game consoles
Planetocopia Alternate Earths, Mars & Venus terraformed, and more
The World Dream Bank Dream journals with art
The Best Page in the Universe Funny opinionated articles, slowed down after 2016
Terminal 00 Weird art project
The Wanderling Supernatural stories
Pacific Northwest tree octopus Help us save them from extinction

• Useful Websites
Internet Archive If this had a powerful internal search engine, would it be more useful than Google?
Monkeytype Learn to type faster
Google Trends See the popularity of search terms since 2004, good for research
Google Books Ngrams Viewer See the popularity of different words or phrases through history, good for research
Hardcore Gaming 101 Information about obscure games
NEXLAB Satellite and Radar detailed weather radar maps, try playing around with the options. It has local and continental radar
Weather Underground Maps Catalog bloat-free weather radar maps
Random Face Generator (This Person Does Not Exist) Instantly make yourself look like a respectable journalist by doxing your face
How to destroy the Earth For years I thought this fun little page was lost. Found again using Brave search, make of that what you will.

• Maps
David Rumsey Map Collection Huge collection of historical maps
Cartographers Guild For fantasy map fans
NEXLAB Satellite and Radar detailed weather radar maps, try playing around with the options. It has local and continental radar
Weather Underground Maps Catalog bloat-free weather radar maps
VGMaps.com ripped game maps
SpaceTrek - Galaxymap Map for a Star Trek fangame
Planetocopia Alternate Earths, Mars & Venus terraformed, and more
The R.D.D. Nickel Atlas of the Universe Being a collection of maps authored by Sir Ryley David Douglas Nickel esq representing man's domain in the universe.
Ian-Albert.com ripped game maps, personal site
NESMaps.com ripped NES maps
Maps for Lux Delux Risk style maps
Atomic Rockets - Space Maps Lots of detailed maps of space, putting all those pretty pictures you've seen into context
An Atlas of The Universe Aliased maps showing space at different scales
Flood Map Simple street maps showing you any level of sea level rise, including unrealistic and impossible ones.
Deviantart is another good source of cool maps.

• Good Articles
McMansion Hell funny critiques of McMansions, learn about architecture too
Why Johnny can't code David Brin wishes BASIC was still taught in schools. Interesting point about computers becoming locked-down consumption devices.
What If A Collapse Happened And Nobody Noticed? What if we're already in one?
Filthy Pants: A Computer Blog blog with useful posts about emulation
Pepsi Breathtaking Ever wonder what the design document for a $1 million logo redesign looks like?
Who Bullies the Bullies? An article about class and the demonization of Internet anonymity
Daryl Bem Proved ESP Is Real Reproducibility problem in psychology.
A Maze of Murderscapes: Metroid II Metroid II review with a very personal perspective
Metroid: Other M Vault
Ron D. Moore Q&A Ronald Moore discusses his time writing for Star Trek Voyager and the failure of it's premise
'90s Dad Thrillers: a List Attempting to define a style of triller movie that existed from 1988-2002.

• Worldbuilding
History: Past, Future, and Fake An exercise in making up sci-fi history
Magic and Fantasy Fiction Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | What historical magic actually was and why Christians consider it evil
Giant in the Playground - Gaming D&D Worldbuilding articles by Rich Burlew, removed from his site in 2020. There were more articles in older captures, but they're more 3.5 specific.
Planetocopia Alternate Earths, Mars & Venus terraformed, and more
Cartographers Guild For fantasy map fans
Orion's Arm Universe Project The worldbuilding is honestly rather bad, (with the exception of the Technocalypse.) But as an encyclopedia of realistic sci-fi ideas it's pretty good.
Donjon Random Generators
Atomic Rockets learn rocket science
The Spectacular Story Of Metroid, One Of Gaming's Richest Universes Love letter to Metroid's weird lore. Pictures are broken in the non-archived version, but you can read the comments there if you want.
Welcome to Medieval America Worldbuilding project
The R.D.D. Nickel Timeline of the World Being a plain outline of the history of the universe and mankind by Sir Ryley David Douglas Nickel esq.
The R.D.D. Nickel Atlas of the Universe Being a collection of maps authored by Sir Ryley David Douglas Nickel esq representing man's domain in the universe.

• History
LacusCurtius Translated Greek and Latin texts
Ancient Visions Ancient and Medieval concepts for the way our eyes work
David Rumsey Map Collection Huge collection of historical maps
ChinesePosters.net Chinese propaganda posters from 1925-Present

• Game Resources
Video Game Music Archive midi game covers, useful if you want to see how a song was put together
KHInsider's Video Game Music game soundtracks
Mirsoft midi game rips
VGMaps.com ripped game maps
Ian-Albert.com ripped game maps, personal site
NESMaps.com ripped NES maps
ModDB Mod site #1
Gamebanana Mod site #2
Nexus Mods Mod site #3
ROMhacking.net Rom hacks
OpenGameArt.org Kitchen sink collection of free game assets
Freesound Sound effects
Archive: GameAudioGDC Sound effects, long professional recording
The Spriters Resource sprite sheets

• Music
Bandcamp did you know you can still own the music you listen to?
VI Control Forums for composing with virtual instruments. Hans Zimmer posts here.
OverClocked ReMix game remixes
KHInsider's Video Game Music game soundtracks
The Mod Archive .MOD music collection
Video Game Music Archive midi game covers, useful if you want to see how a song was put together
VirtualMIDISynth make your midi files sound good, links to soundfonts
Mirsoft midi game rips

• Open Game Conversions
Open Xcom Open-source recreation of X-Com: UFO Defense
Daggerfall Workshop Daggerfall recreation in the Unity engine

• Web Museums
Web Design Museum screenshots of websites from the 90s and 2000s
Winamp Skin Museum gigantic archive of Winamp skins
Library of Congress Web Cultures Web Archive Your tax dollars are preserving creepypasta
How Flash Ganes shaped the video game industry Interesting visualisation of Flash's popularity over time
GifCities Middle click on gifs to see the geocities pages they used to be on

• Custom GUIs
WinCustomize skins for stardock & other desktop programs. People went wild with this back in the XP days, you can still view old skins
Boxshots blackbox skins collection
Icon Archive Many artstyles avalible
macOS icons Big Sur style icons in Mac (icns) format. I've used Inkscape to convert some to png and GIMP to convert to ico.
Currently rainmeter skins are a popular way to customize the Windows desktop, however these tend to all have the same "clean" style, with functionality optimized for people who don't use many programs. I find these older screenshots more interesting, although most won't work anymore.

• Uncategorized
Sea and Sky Old educational website, one of the first I ever came across.
70s Sci-Fi Art Incredibly imaginative sci-fi and fantasy art of the 1970s. This blog is probably the most comprehensive collection on the Internet, though I can't help but imagine if image dumps like this were actual curated websites, with features like dates and artist categories.
Build The Enterprise A website suggesting we build the starship Enterprise in real life.
Let's Play Archive Before YouTube there were text Let's Plays. This is an archive of them.