Resources & Interesting Sites

Site Description
Skyscrapercity THE place to visit if you want to learn about urban developments going on around the world!
Yesterweb The movement that inspired me start my personal website. The Zine is both fascinating and moving to read.
Crush Capitalism Good starting point for a critical look on capitalism and looking beyond it for alternative systems.
Internet Archive No explanation needed. Just people doing God's work.
Project Gutenberg More than 70.000 ebooks of works that have fallen in the Public Domain. Can be downloaded as epub files as well.
Public Domain Review Exploring works of art that have fallen into the public domain.
Sci-Hub Millions of scientific articles are made publicly available here. Part of the Open Access Movement.
Web Design Museum Excellent source of inspiration for making your retro website. Or just a wholesome walk down memory lane.
History of the Net Archived site that is a true treasure trove of historical documents related to the very early internet and the pre-internet (BITNET) days.
The Spider's Apprentice - How to use web search engines An old net website that is still up explaining how to use search engines.
Barry's Temple of Godzilla Old net Godzilla website that is still running. Last updated around 2014 and declared an online Godzilla museum.
The Pay Phone Museum by Matthew Furman An ode to the nearly extinct pay phone.

Website Building

Site Description
W3Schools Essential guide to anyone new at HTML, CSS and beyond. I've learned so much from this site already!
MagicPattern Helps you create CSS background patterns. I got my background design from here.
GifCities A search engine for gifs from archived Geocities pages on The Internet Archive.
buttonwall.neocities.org Awesome collection of buttons to use for your site!
88by31.neocities.org More buttons! This collection is sorted by category making easier to find what you need.
Pixilart Excellent tool for making pixel art.
Canuck's House of Kao Alright wrap it up folks. This is the ultimate Kao Archive. More than 10.000 Kao here.
Kitsutsuki's animal gifs Loads of retro animal gifs on this site.
Dan Simpson's animated house collection! Dan Simpson is a hero for keeping his more than 25 year old website up. Huge collection of animated houses with proper credit to the creators. Also visit his hiking page which he still maintains to this day!

Media & Entertainment

Site Description
My Abandonware Very good site to find games that are considered abandonware.
Old Games Download More abandonware.
Cartoon Cartoon Summer Resort Here you can play all four of the the old Cartoon Network Summer Resort shockwave games!
Cartoon Network 1998-2012 An online stream trying to recreate the golden age of Cartoon Network.
Toonami Aftermath Another fan made channel trying to recreate the Toonami era vibe.
Agar.io Terribly addictive game. Eat or be eaten.
TagPro Old school capture the flag online game. Has a learning curve in the beginning but once you get the feeling it's mad fun!
PokeMMO The Pokémon game I dreamed of playing as a kid exists! This MMO mod based on the first 5 gens is the best one I've played.
Tibia I've never been an MMORPG player but Tibia has a special place in my heart. Free to play but has premium features.
Drive and Listen Drive around a city of your choice while listening to a selection of radio stations. Very relaxing.

Podcasts

From the Center of Humane Technology, a think tank founded by former and current big tech workers trying to come up with solutions to make future tech applications (such as AI) more humane.
Title Description
Citations Needed A podcasts about the intersection of media, PR and power. Hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. The two hosts have great chemistry together.
Your Undivided Attention
The Ezra Klein Show From the NY Times. Ezra Klein's long interviews are always a treat to listen to.
Scene on Radio Produced and hosted by John Biewen at Duke University. Takes a deep dive each season into a core issue that impacts our society. Season 2 "Seeing White" about the history of the concept of a white race was incredibly fascinating.
In the Dark Excellent seasonal investigative journalism podcast.
Underunderstood If you need a new safe haven after Reply All, then Underunderstood is a great alternative. The hosts dive deep into sometimes very trivial stuff, sometimes geeky stuff.
Land of the Giants Every season explores the history of one of todays tech giants.
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Dan Carlin's unique format needs to be experienced to understand. He is such an engaging storyteller.
History of Japan Podcast This podcast has been going on for ages. Every week a new episode about a certain topic in Japanese history is covered.

Youtube Channels

Channel Description
Folding Ideas Dan Olson makes long video essays where he explores internet culture phenomenons like Flat Earthers, Decentraland, Wallstreetbets and Cryptocurrencies. One of the most intelligent people on Youtube.
Alice Cappelle A French-Belgian video essayist who explores modern societal issues, often from a philosophical perspective. Anti-capitalist and feminist topics regularly feature. She is an incredibly smart person and her videos often make me reconsider my pre-existing beliefs
Hbomberguy Hardly any need to introduce Harris after his viral hit on Youtube plagiarism. His spirit of diving into trivial topics and accidentally stumbling upon controversial stuff is my favorite kind of investigative journalism.
Defunctland How to you elevate videos about decomissioned theme park rides to art? By putting your heart, soul and personality into it like Kevin Perjurer. I consider his work to be some of the highest quality stuff you can find on Youtube.
Little Chinese Everywhere Yan is my favorite travel blogger by far. She has a great personality and her current long running season where she literally explores every corner of China is so fascinating. Being a native Chinese she is able to get closer to the people and the culture than a western travel blogger every could. Also, beautiful drone shots!
Indigo Traveller While some people consider his content disaster tourism, I think he provides relevant, insightful content on places in the world that most people, including journalists, dare not visit.
Jonac Ceika CCK Philosophy Philosophical essay channel with an emphasis on socialist and communist content. He is able to explain complex philosophical concepts in a very accessible manner.
Second Thought J.T. Chapman's essays can be a bit melancholic at times, but I think are eye opening introductions for people who are seeking an alternative to capitalism.
More Perfect Union Another great initiative to promote anti-capitalist ways of thinking. Emphasis on the importance of unions, but talks about many other topics as well
Modern MBA This is probably the channel I have watched the most in the past year. I did not know watching videos about business strategies could be so damn interesting.
Moon Channel A relatively new Youtuber but he already has quite a following. He looks at pop culture phemonenons from juridical perspective, talks about intellectual property rights as well as other topics. He is still a bit rough around the edges but his recent video on who owns Pokemon was very interesting.
Red Letter Media One of the oldest Youtube channels in this list. I have been following them for over ten years and love their Half in the Bag series where Mike and Jay review films they watched. Never change guys!
Accented Cinema Interesting video essays, usually about films, from a refreshing asian perspective.
Barely Sociable I don't care too much for creepy Youtube, but I make an exception for Barely Sociale as he does not just cover the topics he talks about, but also investigates them and often digs up new information on existing cases, making his work investigative rather than exploitative like most of the true crime genre
Masaman Masaman is one of those things that could only happen on Youtube. Mason has somewhat of an obsessive interest with race, ethnicity and haplogroups. I don't know how scientifically proven his findings are, but fascinating stuff nonetheless
Takagi Railway Going into niche territory here, but if you are like me and want to learn more about Japanese railways, you will know how hard it is to find English language content. Takagi Railways is a life saver because most of their videos include English subtitles!
Comprehensible Japanese Yuki-sensei's video's are a great way to learn the Japanese language. I found the comprehensible method to be most suitable for picking up new vocabulary
Arkibk Train Aki Speaking of niche, this channel contains lots of Japanese train cab videos for you to enjoy the scenery or just doze off to. There are several channels like this but this one is my favorite as it displays station names and doesn't cut out the time when the train is standing still at the station, giving you the most natural experience. Also, most videos have 4KHD quality