What makes it in

  • Portfolio sites of artists I like
  • Archives of historical materials
  • Bizarre personal pages from Geocities and Angelfire
  • Silly pictures
  • Projects both ongoing and forgotten
  • Nature photos
  • Many other strange and interesting things

Any websites containing outdated values or ideas are presented as curious little pieces of history for you to point and laugh at. If any of these sites contain stupid opinions, I do not endorse them! I only have GOOD opinions. Thank you.

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The scraped out contents of an old CD.

Some 3D models of plants from 1998.

A gallery of 90s' websites.

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An archive of abandoned railway tracks in the United States.

An archive of underground comix.

Reference library of Black hairstyles and textured hair examples.

CSS recreations of old Mac screensavers.

Conservation wildlife and environmental photography.

Fine art landscape photography focused on dramatic natural scenery.

Pong with a twist.

An article showcasing the marquees from an arcade in Brookfield, Illinois.

Listen to ambient in a trippy landscape.

An American birding nonprofit.

HD graphics from the 1985 Amiga computer.

A transmasculine artist of cute things.

An archive of the earliest web browsers.

Apples.

An archive of rare CD-Roms.

A collection of graphic design texts from the Internet Archive.

The AIC's digitized collection.

Creepy crawly artwork.

Old Apple warez in a terminal aesthetic.

Daily pictures of space.

Interactive exploration of planets, moons, asteroids, and other Solar objects.

One of the first furry archives.

A site on Chilean birds.

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Archive of retro web graphics and early internet design artifacts.

Killing Barney the Dinosaur since 1991.

A tiny blog engine.

Field notes, photography, and entomology articles from a beetle specialist.

My favorite site for old graphics.

Worldwide bird photography galleries organized by region and country.

Wildlife and bird photography, workshops, and nature education.

The portfolio of bird photographer Arthur Morris.

Bird identification guides and ornithology resource site.

Birdwatching and nature observation project.

A gallery of old book cover scans.

Chicago's button museum.

Photos dedicated to my fellow butches.

A website all about vintage computers.

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Natural history illustration portfolio.

Hilariously awful cakes since 2008.

A tribute to 90s websites.

A plaintext weed website that successfully made the jump to HTTPS.

Scans of old american christmas catalogs.

A huge list of all the world's species.

An archive of Louis Wain art.

A surrealist artist inspired by biology textbooks.

A French 3D-model artist.

An old site on cephalopods that successfully made the jump to HTTPS.

Bird photography and birdwatching content.

Paleontology blog focused on dinosaurs and paleoart.

Photos of chickens and other things.

Citizen-science birdsong recording and biodiversity project.

An old dragon mythology encyclopedia.

Fantasy illustration portfolio.

Bird photography collection.

Archive of artworks by Corita Kent.

Search for public-domain material.

An old search-engine.

Tell people about your stuff by planting trippy 3D flowers.

The church of Bizarre Sex, Snake Fondling and Vegetable Sacrifice! Tina Chopp is God!!

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Fantasy and editorial map design portfolio.

Illustration and visual design portfolio.

A homemade furry archive.

The Heaven's Gate page is so passé.

Contemporary sculpture and crystal-based art.

A gallery of modern macintosh wallpapers.

Trippy photorealistic paintings of fruits and flowers.

Typography project inspired by transport and signage systems.

Historical exploration of gravesites and forgotten places in the American Southwest.

A 3D artist that's been going since the 90s.

Post-mortem brain scans of various animals, including a Thylacine specimen.

An archive of LGBTQ+ material.

The New York Public Library digitized collection.

An archive of digitized material from Massachusetts.

An archive of digitized material from Illinois.

A digitzed archive of late 20th century transgender texts.

Disability-focused BIPOC representation stock photo and interview project.

Archive of demoscene diskmagazines and digital art culture.

A Mac Paint simulator.

Dubious doomsdays and alleged apocalypses.

Paleoart portfolio focused on prehistoric ecosystems.

An archive of digitized material from across America.

Anatomy / medical (curiosity)

A forgotten democrat campaign page from just about thirty years ago.

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The king of thrash metal album art.

Illustration and visual development portfolio.

Scientifically informed dinosaur and prehistoric animal art.

An old educational site with lots of material.

An encyclopedia of metal I grew up with.

The premier page on psychoactive drugs.

A site that tracks the migration patterns of european birds.

A sculptor of strange creatures.

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Technical essays on game engines, graphics, and programming.

A tool that shows you find nearby food banks.

Common mistakes nerds make.

Typography criticism and typeface reviews.

A gallery of images and the corresponding fonts in them.

A timeline of food history.

Cool fractals to stare at when you're high.

A furry mission statement of peace.

An archive of underground furry zines.

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Illustration and design portfolio.

Glass sculpture studio inspired by nature and mythology.

Reconstruction project of Anglo-Saxon England geography and history.

A website chronicling the preservation of Geocities.

Getty's digitized collection.

An artist I loved as a tween.

3D goldfish.

A long-winded list.

An artist's lifelong tradition of drawing christmas cards for their family.

A gallery of graphic user interfaces.

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Essay on the Gorton industrial typeface used in NYC infrastructure.

Janky glitter gifs to start your day.

A neocities-based background repository.

An archive of 88x31 buttons.

A timeline of the internet.

History and explanation of early web ring communities.

A parodic taxonomy site on phylum Plasticae.

Reviews and discussion of obscure horror films.

Another old website that made the jump to HTTPS, all about this funky crab.

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The University of Illinois' digitized newspaper collection.

Hubble's image archive.

A prophetic essay about the corporate web.

An online AIDS quilt.

Digital library of classical literature in translation.

A database of speculative fiction.

A digitized collection of LGBT texts from the American south.

A site about isopods.

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It can see really far into space.

A Neo-Fauvist artist.

An old nature photography site that made the jump to HTTPS back in 2013.

An american photographer with a lot of owl pictures.

How to create your site in a god-honoring way. The rest of the site is equally insane.

There's a whole organization for this!

The creator of the surrealistic "Frank" comix.

An MS Paint simulator.

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A javascript port of Kidpix.

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A visual guide to pasta.

The page of a longtime tattoo anthropologist.

A site about the history of lava lamps.

A virtual exhibition of tiny antarctic life-forms.

A site about vintage americana.

A Maine-based landscape painter.

A vintage camera museum from 2000.

A photographer of abandoned americana.

A website about rediscovered animals.

A swedish woodworker.

A Door-County based photographer.

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Documentation of a homemade pipe organ engineering project.

A gallery of old macintosh wallpapers.

An expansive database of natural history media.

A blog about random artistic things.

Open-source variable sans-serif typeface.

An archive of ancient smilies.

Check if your local McDonalds' ice-cream machine is broken.

An artist who did huge paintings for NASA.

Interactive map documenting murders and violent crime in medieval England.

An american wildlife photographer.

An American landscape photographer.

A prolific fantasy artist.

A small collection of midcentury art.

The VPN I use.

Boston's premier art museum.

Another old site that made the jump, with a museum of Oujia boards.

A mushroom color list.

A non-edible guide to mushrooms.

Assorted binaural soundscapes of nature sounds.

Something I like playing with.

Fun things to do in an elevator.

A site about old smilies.

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A map of historical Indigenous territories.

A guide to Indigenous american languages.

An old interactive NGC catalog.

Some cool rocks.

A macro photographer of exotic insects.

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Global archive of natural earth pigments (ochres).

The personal site of a vintage computer collector.

A font made from real chopped onions.

An organization for historical LGBTQ+ research.

A gallery of burrit-owls.

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Ecological databases on American birds.

A gallery of 60s' and 70s' graphic design.

An open-access resource for human proteins.

An exhibit of public-domain material.

I like the eggies.

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An archive of pre-2010 LGBTQ digital spaces online.

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A browser toy with random pixel gifs.

An archive of hardware.

A realist painter of dark, eerie scenes.

Did a lot of album covers for Yes.

Photographic series of handmade roadside signage by "Ron."

An in-browser tool to create 3D rooms.

Rotating Sandwiches.

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Various logos from Sci-Fi movies.

An article about how birds show up in online search statistics.

A database for weed.

Botanical photography and identification of seeds, fruits, and plants.

A 30-year old site about cryptozoology.

The premier site on Psilocybin.

Helps you not get heatstroke when you're traveling.

"HELO FAGORTSAND WELLCOEM TOO MY NEW AND EMPROVED HOEMAPEG!!!!"

Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam.

Daily reports on solar activity, auroras, and space weather events.

A site for spam.

Personal web project featuring niche interests, art, and internet culture.

A database of computers in movies.

A gallery of stickerbombed laptops.

Articles on Macintosh computers.

Anatomy / medical (curiosity)

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A modern archive of tile backgrounds.

A wildlife photographer that specializes in nature in Borneo.

Experimental novelty typeface with mixed serif/sans glyphs.

A vendor of vintage toasters and waffle irons.

The creator of the iconic "The Two-Thousand Yard Stare" painting.

A data visualization for tornadoes.

A wiki of animal toys.

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A font made of gerrymandered congressional districts.

A downloadable archive of DOS-era computer fonts.

A private alternative to Google Fonts.

An archive of Usenet groups.

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An archive of rare old furry art.

Archive and showcase of historic computers and computing technology.

A gallery of AIDS-themed artwork.

An archive of VCL.

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The classic.

An archive of old web badges.

As it says on the tin.

A fine art gallery from 1996.

Some cool fluids.

A gallery of eye-searing abominations.

Official website of the pioneering electronic music composer.

A recreation of an early 1800s' mineralogy guidebook.

A recreation of a 1821 color guidebook.

A british romantic painter.

An encyclopedia of Earthbound.

An in-browser theme designer for Windows 95.

An archive of Winamp skins.

An archive of old software.

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An archive of Yerf.

Can you get through the Oregon Trail without shitting yourself?

An encyclopedia of Yume Nikki.