|
|
 
How to surf the web again
The internet has forgotten how to surf the web. If something is not found on the same 5 socal media sties, then it does not exist. If a music track is not on spotify or apple music, then they think it's lost media. Then they bemoan how dead the internet is and how it's not fun anymore.
And yet, in the years i have spent on the indieweb, on neocities, nekoweb and in link directories, it's clear to me that the internet you remember is still alive and well, at least to an exent. It's just splintered. And with how search engines are now, they are hard to find.
On this page i have gathered a list of various sites, directories and resources to help you get started and go exploring. You don't realize how much time has passed once you get started with these sites. Suddently, you find yourself tuning in daily to your neocities dashboard or checking your bookmarked sites instead in the morning instead of opening twitter.
| Directories |
Directories are sites hosting links to other sites they find interesting. A perfect way to start surfing the web is with these hand curated organized sites. Everyone shows off somethign they enjoy. |
| Wilderness.land |
A gigantic grid all styled after little plots of land. Explore the site and find little clickable poots of land. Each plot leads to a website. |
| Bukmark.club |
Another collection of websites. Has a big archive of personal websites. |
 |
Simone's computer. A cool old desktop like site showing simone's hand picked sites that he finds interesting. |
 |
The vault. A site made by combatbaby with a nice collection of pages in different categories. |
 |
Linklane has been around since 2004 and has over 500++ links to find. You can also get yourself listed. |
 |
The simple site is just that, a simple site with a bunch of links for all kinds of interests, hobbies, usefulness and informative curiosities. |
| cloudlord.management |
A surreal internet estate holding "company" but hosts links to other directories. |
| Elliott.computer |
The everything site. Nicely organized links to various curios sites. |
 |
Smooth Sailing listings. Browse trough various categories and find loads of fun sites, personal blogs, games, fanlistings, resources and more. |
| list.me |
A free non-elite website directory. Pleasent and humble with a bunch of fun sites to visit. |
| ooh.directory |
A great directory of personal blogs from others about almost anything. See what people around the web has to say. |
| href.cool |
Small, simple and straight-forward directory of interesting sites. |
 |
A massive link directory with days worth of links to explore. One of my personal favorites. Sadly does not update anymore, but you are bound to find something interesting here. |
 |
Satyrs linkroll. Big wall of sites to explore and discover. Has some great resources for you too. |
| Informative |
Sites that offers you useful information, gudies and help on how to surf the web again. |
| Backlit's search 101 |
Informative and well written blog that shows you how to search for things on the modern web. Worth a read. |
 |
Melon's intro to Web Revival. A internet based movement that promotes humanity, creativety and equality. Really good read. Check out their surf club webring too! |
 |
Sadgirl's web surfing guide. A site of link directories, random site generators and search engines. Check out their guides and links section as well. |
| Interactive |
Sites that let you explore random sites in a fun and interactive way or that has some theme to it. |
| Internet Phone Book |
A really unique way to find websites. Every site is indexed with a "phone number" and you can "dial" it on the interactive phone. Comes in a physical phone book as well! |
 |
Vijays vibes. Click the buttons on the TV to tune in to a random fun website. |
| theforest.link |
Simulating an old macintosh computer, you click the "walk" button to visit a random site. You can also "plant" a website to grow the "forest." |
| 512KB club |
A club with websites that are no more than, max, 512kb in size. Here you can see what more you can do with less. |
| 1MB club |
Same as above, but for sites that are under 1MB in size. |
| Archives |
Archives of defunct and offline websites that you can browse and cry over. |
 |
The internet archive. Everyone knows of them, and you can find almost anything you can think of here, modern or old. |
| Oocities |
Another archive site for sites from geocities, which loads fast and is neatly organized. |
| restorativland |
A project to restore shut down or abandoned websites. Has a great geocities archive to browse as well as an archive of myspace music. |
|
|
