Links

Every website used to have a list of links on it. Curious and/or interesting stuff. I made my first website around 2000 and it had a list of links I recommended.

People used to even exchange links to their home pages back then... There were even services of social bookmarks, where people shared their bookmarks and stuff! Then the social networks became a thing, and tradition sort of died.

People

Services and tools

  • Riju is an online REPL tool. I used to use repl.it but it turned into a slow bloated crap with focus on "business" stuff - no longer a quick repl to test stuff. Repl.it business even tried to take riju down at some point.

  • Cables is an online node editors for WebGL graphics. Very funny tool that allows to create shader programs without writing shaders yourself.

    It also has an inspiring gallery of stuff made with it.

Games

  • Echo Sector is dedicated to the Crusader series of video games developed by Origin Systems and published by Electronic Arts in the mid-1990s. The website is curated by Keenan Weaver. It is often down, so be patient.

  • acid-play - a nice old site with a set of free games. Long time ago I found some of my favorite small games (TAGAP, Liero, Shapes, Marble Arena, Kiki The Nano Bot, Tower Of Goo, Crayon Physics, Bontago and many more there.) The site seems to be broken (most downloads do not work, search does not work), but I love to scroll it and its web archive copy sometimes, it's nostalgic.

  • Abandonia is another website with abandonware games. You can download them, also.

  • Home Of The Underdogs. A database of abandonware games.

  • RAWG. I believe, it is highly underestimated. It's a videogame database.

Music

Resourceful and subcultural

  • oldschool pc fonts is where I got the IBM font used to use on this very website.

  • pouet is a main source for demoscene info.

  • chiptune.com has always been an inspiration for me, as a demonstration what a web interface can be. It replicates the appearance of the Amiga Workbench using JS - and serves as a source for chip-tunes.

  • untergrund.net is a free hosting for demoscene-related sites. There is a list of the sites to surf, some of these are quite amazing (chiptune.com is one of them, btw)

  • n-o-d-e - This guy is a maker of awesome things - 3d-printing, tinkering, DIY tech. He also has a cool tech news digest, also available on his youtube channel.

There is a wired section on this site, for more cyberpunk-related links.

Design and stuff

  • Curated list of design resources on Ian Rose's website. There's a fun and inspiring list of various tools, libs and services for designers and coders.

  • PolyCount is a forum and a website that inspires me to do 3D stuff.

Read

Everything else

  • UsesThis is a blog with a bunch of interviews of random people about what stuff do they use to get their job done. And what tools they recommend.

  • Windows 10 AME is a windows with all the crap removed. It does not support some microsoft features, of course - yo will have to tinker to make them work. Think of it as of less shitty windows.

  • Retonator is a very stylish magazine about pixel art and pixels.

  • Museum of soviet retro tech. Did you know that USSR had copied a plenty of western devices? This website has a ton of photos of those.

  • Lordess Foudre's instagram. If I were to recommend you a social network account - that would be one of Lordess Foudre. Her arts are kinda edgy, but they resonate with me somehow.

  • Game Music Base - has a ton of game music in mid and mod formats, various game-rips and whatnot. And allows to download them as well.

  • Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages a set of optical illusions

Random

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