Computers and Technology

• SpeedGuide - Broadband tweaking and networking advice.
• The Register - IT news and opinion pieces.
• smallest website in the world! guimp.com - 18x18 pixels of gadgets and games
• FRST Computer - Artisan personal computer company
• Wayback Machine - The Internet Archive's record of billions of web pages from past ages of the World Wide Web.
• Neocities - A free web host inspired by Geocities from the early years of the Web. Offers a gigabyte of space to anyone for free, more if you choose to pay.
• Veronica Explains - Video creator (on Youtube and Peertube) and blogger who mostly discusses Linux-related topics.
• Gemini Quickstart - Gemini (not related to Google's AI product) is a text-only information delivery medium that's like a middle-groun between the Web and Gopher of old. Gemini pages are written in a reduced version of Markdown. This site is a good introduction that also offers links to clients.
• Tiny Awards - Yearly award site that collects links to excellent websites that are "small, poetic, creative, and handmade."
• The Guide to Implementing 2D Platformers - Explains the many details of creating 2D platforming engines, with many examples and details on features like ladders and slopes.
• Pictochat Online - Web-based recreation of the communication applet included on the Nintendo DS portable console.
• Rogue - Videogames news and commentary site, publishes guides.
• url.town - A web directory, focusing on fun, cool and useful stuff. No hate or AI content.
• Curlie - A web directory, formerly DMOZ, and the oldest surviving link directory on the Web.
• 404 Media - Excellent longform tech, internet and culture blog, with podcast. Notable bloggers: Jason Koebler, Sam Cole, Joseph Cox, Emanuel Maiberg, (Paywall: $10/mo)
• Aftermath - Video gaming news culture and review site with podcast, founded by former Kotaku staffers. Luke Plunkett, Nathan Greyson, Riley MacLeod, Gita Jackson, Chris Person. (Some content paywalled, $7/mo)
• Alpha Beta Gamer - Blog-style site devoted to noting free game alpha and beta tests.
• The Arcade Blogger - Dedicated to the retro arcade scene, with interviews, technical information and other related information.
• The Ted Dabney Experience - Podcast. Interviews with important people from the classic era of arcade gaming.
• Arcade Heroes - News blog covering modern arcade releases.
• Ars Technica - Respected tech news and commentary site.
• Hardcore Gaming 101 - Run by Kurt Kalata, an excellent and informative site on the history of many video and computer game series.
• jwz.org - Tech culture blog by Jamie Zawinski, a founder of Netscape and Mozilla, programmer, proprietor of DNA Lounge.
• textfiles.com - Jason Scott's (Internet Archive) haven for early computer and internet culture, remembered in the form of ASCII text files.
• Waxy - Andy Baio's (XOXO, co-founder of Kickstarter) internet culture blog. Infrequent updates, but always excellent content.
• Today In Tabs - Rusty Foster's (formerly Suck.com, Plastic) weekdaily listing of cool internet, tech and news finds.
• Inform 7 - Current release of Inform 7, an interactive fiction implementation language that reads like plain English.
• udm14 - A search site from Ernie Smith (Tedium) that takes your terms and feeds them into Google's "Web" subsearch, that works like Google did back when it was great. It doesn't save your or harvest your data, it's just a shell around Google's engine.
• Playfix - Andy Baio (Waxy) made a site where users can write interactive fiction in Inform 7 and others can play what they've made, and this is it.
• The Pac-Man Dossier - Perhaps the greatest description of the internal workings of a classic arcade game ever published, Jamey Pittman's Pac-Man Dossier is an incredibly complete guide to how Pac-Man works internally, including detailed descriptions of how the ghosts' think.
• Post Games - Interview podcast & Substack founded by Chris Plante about various topics related to video games.
• |tsr's NES Archive - Long-defunct, yet still online, collection of information and comedic essays about NES video games.
• Nekoweb - Small and friendly indie webhost and community.
• Fontstruct - Free web system for creating TrueType fonts using "bricks," modular blocks and other simple components.
• WWWF Grudge Match - Defunct (yet still online) site that ran parody polls and commentary on pop culture figures fighting each other, a probable inspiration for MTV's Celebrity Death Match.