| 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Archived site that is a true treasure trove of historical documents related to the very early internet and the pre-internet (BITNET) days.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. |
| 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! |
| Bad Candy |
Satirical page tasting and reviewing bad candy so you didn't have to. |
| Seungha Rhee's Homepage |
Homepage for the Korean Diaspora |
| Cyber_Corsair |
George E. Greene's cyber art. I was not able to find more info on this person. |
| The Magic Garden |
Directory of Fringe Stuff. Medicinal herbs, psychedelics, botanical garderning links. |
| Yo Mama |
Just a bunch of Yo Mama jokes, because why not. |
| Walraven van Nijmegen |
Website for a character in the LARP community Society for Creative Anachronism. They have been around longer than the internet and still exist today! |
| Bambury Market |
Early attempt at creating an online shopping mall experience. Trying to index commerical websites like a town market. |
| Marvel Cybercards |
If you visit the oldest instances of Marvel on the net. You see mentions of collectible cybercards. There is little other information available on it. The cards used IBM's cryptolope technology. Cryptolope failed because the wrapper around the file could be up to 5MB large, which was too big for casual users in those days. |
Nanjing Massacre |
Page dedicated to the Nanjing Massacre. Lots of links. |
Josh McCoy's Antarctica Page |
Josh McCoy's diary of living in Antarctica in 1997 |
| Beck Schaeffer's Antarctica Page |
Becky spent time living in Antarctica in 1994. This website contain several links to Antarctica related sources and is still online. |
| Penguin Central |
Ethan Dick's anarctica page. I guess when you live in Antarctica making a website was best way to spent time even with the slow internet speeds of the nineties. |
| Free State of Andalusia |
Webpage of the former Free State of Andalusia in Alboran. A short lived online separation movement by Andalusians from Spain |
| The Artificial Paradise |
Page for a Japanese webzine. Perhaps worth further exploration one day. |
| Tamagotchi Page |
A very thorough Tamagotchi fanpage. |
| Alexander Massey |
Website for Alexander Massey, voice therapist. |
| Mike's WWWorld |
A short lived diary of a family living in rural Iowa. Contains tornados, amateur radio and of course church games. |
| Chinese Community Forum Newsletter |
The CCF was an online community of overseas Chinese students. Some of them seem to have ties to the Tiananmen incident. This newsletter archive is worth digging into. |
| Kumite |
All about internet virus myths and hoaxes |
J-Ent.com |
Daisy ran a Japanese drama and entertainment website between 1999 and 2004 |
Baby Rice |
Personal site by an asian queer man living in Toronto. |
Philippine Philatelic Club |
It doesn't get more niche than this. |
| America by bike |
Travel record of a Japanese who crossed the USA from Seattle to New York by bicycle. Unfinished. |
| Tchelebi On-Line |
Mohammed Chelebi's page about Syria. |
| Misawa Air Base |
Former homepage for the US Misawa Air Base in Japan |
| The Jihad Against Barney |
Early internet meme. People hating on a kids TV character. |
| Poptart Experiment |
Strawberry Poptart blowtorch experiment. |
| Chinese Tea site |
A Chinese website dedicated to tea. |
| Gwulo |
A website dedicated to old Hong Kong. Over 30.000 photo's! Not really an old net site and also still online. |
| Cathay Years |
Memoires of and American who spent extended periods of time in East-Asia in the interbellum era. |
| Tribo |
Page about the history of the Philippines. |
| Soft Hard Kids |
Nice looking fanpage for the Japanese band Soft Hard Kids |
| Virtually Hawaii |
Project that ran between 1995 and 1999 funded by NASA to assemble a database of satellite images for the state of Hawaii. Still online! |
| My7000 |
96% of Japanese people have one of 7000 surnames. |
| Deric Kuan's Homepage |
Some nice photos of Hong Kong and Shenzen from the 90s |
| Soft Hard Kids |
Nice looking fanpage for the Japanese band Soft Hard Kids |
| Gayviet Network |
The Vietnamese Gay and Lesbian Network |
| HTML-VAL-SVC |
NSFW. Interesting site by a danish woman posting photos of herself? |
| Keith's Tonde Buurin Page |
Nice to see a fansite dedicated to a more obscure anime. |
| Tokyo Teleport Newletter |
Tokyo Teleport was a website run by the Tokyo metropolitan government to provide information on city developments in english. |
| Leigh Brasington |
Old net site that is still online. Leigh is a buddhist teacher, organizes meditation retreats, but also has extensively documented his life on his personal site. |
| Yale Anime Society |
Old website for the Yale Anime Society which still exists today. They would have their own anime library as well as bi weekly film screenings. |
| Kohnman |
Kohnman's page contains information about Taiwan, but he also made his own MIDI music. |
| Minidisct.com |
Kohnman used to have a Minidisc related shop or webshop. This page totally made me want to have a minidisc player. |
| Mikomi's page |
Mikomi is an interesting person. She did a radio show on a local radio station around 2002 where she introduced people to J-pop. Also kept a livejournal for a while. |
| Rayzeef's Cyber Haven |
Won the best site of Malaysia award several times in 1998. |
| Iraq Body Count |
Activist page keeping track of the casualties in Iraq after the US invasion. |
| Meadowview of Glastonbury |
A homeowner's association site. Weirdly personal. Funny that people just posted this stuff online 25 years ago. |
| I Love Thailand |
Pretty Extensive Thailand related page. |
| Save Our Sailors |
The movement that persuaded TV stations not to cancel Sailor Moon. Super interesting to see how much time and effort went into this. I wanted to write a story on it but it has already been covered plenty online. |
| Technomads |
A list of links to personal sites of a loose collective calling themselves Technomads. |
| Cool Guy Eddie's Homepage |
Cool guy eddie has a pretty cool homepage, including a long story on how he got played by a girl called Odessa on Geocities chat, which made me learn that there was such a thing as Geocities chatboxes, apparently divided by neighborhood. |
| The Temple of Kodachi |
Ranma 1/2 fanpage that is structured like a church. |
| Thinking of Linking |
Another page full of links to Japanese personal sites. Mostly related to music and culture. |
| Phnom Penh |
Cambodian Tourism page. |
| Yoichi Funado |
Website dedicated to the Japanese novelist Yoichi Funado |
| Purinfan's Homepage |
Cute Sanrio fanpage. |
| Somo Kobo |
Essays on the Internet, AI and Tea |
| Sayaka's Page |
Personal site of a woman called sayaka who kept a diary for years, lived in many countries. |
| Jonissa's Page |
Cool personal site. Jonissa has a great personality. Also great links and MIDI sections here. |
| DJ Gaston |
DJ Gaston is a member of the Gaston's White River Resort family. He has been using this same domain name since he was a kid to document about his life and interests. |
| Kakichi |
Japanese right wingers trying to prove that Japanese war crimes did not happen, denying the comfort women issue. |
| Aqua Hut |
Slightly NSFW. Aqua Hut was apparently a girls bar in the city of Angeles, Philippines. |
| Dr. Dennis Bruno and associates. |
Page seemingly made to expose this guy called Dennis Bruno. I did some research and found he was conviced in 2014 for using grant money for personal use. |
| Asianwhite.org |
A whole website dedicated to the 'problem' of white males dating asian females. This site is all kinds of cringe. |
More to come!
