If you enjoyed the old web of the 90s and 00s; if you love tinkering with your personal website; or if you just like quirky, fun things on the internet, you will love this.

Neocities imposes limitations on what you can host and serve. For one, your files may only be HTML, images, markdown, javascript, or CSS. That means no PHP or Rails or databases or anything like that.

The ultimate archive of 80x15 pixel button art. Currently housing 3961 web badges!

THING is an artist powered live streaming network.

An IndieWeb Webring

Enter the small web. The web used to be a place for small, personal websites full of diverse expression. Nowadays, the internet has become largely monolithic with most new websites being created for businesses. However the small web is

All the things people are doing to claw back the 'net from corporations.

Happy Net Box is an experimental internet social experience based on the arcane and near-forgotten retro internet protocol known as FINGER.

Welcome to Sector Disk! This is an online community of users on a single 1.44MB floppy disk! Every user owns one or more of the 2880 512-byte sectors on the disk and can edit them either in a shell or by uploading them via SFTP.

An essay on the decline & revival of the personal website.

Minifeed search for Indieweb

Discover the internet and find the most interesting, weird or awesome websites of the Internet

Find people to collaborate with by searching through the /about, /ideas and /now pages of 1000s of personal sites

Treat yourself to an awesome web address, a devastatingly gorgeous profile page, a stellar email address, and tons more

Guided by wondering “what would I say to my younger self starting a website?”, I started taking notes. Here they are:

Wholesome blogs minus the yucky bits of the modern web

A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web

In the best tradition of blogging about blogging, today’s post is all about getting started with or getting back into blogging. Recently I have had lots of conversations with folk who would like to blog more, but don’t. Or who feel they *should* be blogging more often, but they haven’t actually managed to do so.

2024 is the year of the indie web and the blog. Just like 2023 was. And 2022. And 2021. In fact, how far can we stretch back? Oh you're blogging again? Cute. WELCOME BACK MOTHERFUCKERS.—…

This is a place for…

Curated list of personal Mataroa blogs on any topic, by  mataroa.blog

Personal knowledge wiki

Links — connections between ideas — are the magic system of the Internet. They power the open web, enriching online writing. Generative AI is the parasitic dark magic counterpart to the link. What makes the Internet the Internet is the ability to hyperlink. Without it, you’re in a walled garden, and those have an admission fee: your self, proxied by the record of your entire online life.*