Links We Like
As everyone at NeoZones are addicted to browsing the WWW, that means that we stumble upon some cool links from time-to-time, here are some of them that we found worthwhile to browse. Enjoy.Feel free to suggest any new websites by going to our Discord server, usually we will except most things, but try and not suggest single YouTube videos.
| Site | About |
|---|---|
| I'm feelin' lucky, punk! | Random website on this page. |
| Radiooooo | A place where people are able to play hit songs from the decade of their choosing from whatever country they wish, |
| CSS2 tutorial | Early tutorial for CSS2 from the year 2000. |
| The Minecraft Uncensored Library | A virtual library that was made as a way for players of the game to be able to read articles by journalists which would otherwise by censored online. |
| SponsorBlock | Crowdsourced browser extension to skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos. |
| Index page, for Absolute Beginners | HTML tutorial from 1996. |
| JS Paint | MS Paint but now in your browser! |
| A Celebration of Women Writers | Large collection of female writers throughout history. |
| Reddit Comment Vote Predictor | To take a quote from its website; "[Vote Predictor is a] neural network [that] was fed thousands of top-level and second-level comments from reddit's most popular subreddits[.] [...] The neural network was trained to predict the number of votes a comment would get. Another neural network was trained with a subset of these comments that were highly voted to generate text" - so the long and short for what it does is that you select what subreddit you are going to post on and what your comment will be. |
| Evolution of the Scrollbar | Short and sweet website that shows the history of the scrollbar, from NeXTSTEP in 1989 all the way to Windows 10 in 2015. Shout-out to Windows 95 and Vista for being the best. |
| JenniCam (1996 - 2003) | JenniCam was the first web-based "lifecaster". Jennifer Kaye Ringley would set up a number of cameras in her house that would take photos of her, and would be then sent to the Web where anyone could view them.
Example of how it looked like at the time (guest version): https://web.archive.org/web/19991013041704/http://jennicam.org:80/guests/liveupdating.html, https://web.archive.org/web/20000229164406/http://jennicam.org:80/guests/liveupdating.html Around 1998, Howard A. Landman would write a number of poems dedicated to Jennifer Ringley, his site is still up as of writing, but was last updated on the 3rd of September 2003: http://www.polyamory.org/~howard/Jenni/ Credit to Job who first found the sites. |
| Malware Museum (collection) | Collection of malware programs, usually viruses, that were distributed in the 1980s and 1990s on home computers, totally fine to run on the site as it is brought back to life via an emulation, so no real computer is infected. |
| Gobman (1992) | Fun little Pac-Man clone where you collect bombs, hourglasses, and special red dot to use against the monsters. |
| Preserving and protecting Army history (2012) | Joseph W. Westphal is given a tour of Fort Belvoir, showing him such items as a statue of Gen. Winfield Scott, paintings by Abbott Laboratories artist-correspondent Joseph Hirsch, and artwork by Adolf Hitler. |
| MTV Online (1996) | Rather fitting that MTV was one of the first music TV stations, and that it should also be the first website archived on the Wayback Machine. |
| Hitler rehearsing his speech in front of the mirror (1925) | Photos of Hitler taken by Nazi photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann, so that he could practice for an upcoming recorded speech. |
| State of Georgia Vs. Mr. Allen Transcript (2016) | Amazing transcript of a real court case of Mr Allen, a murder defendant, who kept on shouting obscenities at the judge and then threatened to kill members of the judge's family. Very much of a long read, but well, well worth it. |
| This Waifu Does Not Exist, second link | Generates a new Anime girl. A lot of the time it does well, quite a good neural network. |
| Handwriting Generator | Makes a font that looks like it was handwritten. |
| Ganbreeder | "Breeds" two images together to make a new one. |
| Deep Dream | The very own Deep Dream, making new pieces of art that look very "dream" like. |
| Colorization bot | Useful neural network that adds colour to black and white photos, most of the time it does do a good job at adding colour to a photo. |
| This Cat Does Not Exist | Generates a new cat based off millions of images in its database, sometimes makes convincing photos of the animal, but a lot of the time you can tell that it's not real. |
| These Cats Do Not Exist | Showing the best of cats made by an neural network. |
| This AirBNB Does Not Exist | Now offline website of a neural network that will make up a new AirBNB, still kind of works but some images will be broken. |
| This Rental Does Not Exist | Reloading the page will make a new rental up thanks to the neural network. |
| UK .gov Archives | Big list of the earliest archives of all of the UK government's websites. |
| Alex's Helicopter Homepage | Very old archive of "Alex's Helicopter Homepage". |
| Stop Hitler | Can you stop Hitler from starting the Second World War? |
| Deth Specula | From Santa Cruz in California, Deth Specula are "a five-man, neo-bronto band" that have been on the Web seemly since 1994. Their website is still going strong, having links to their Bandcamp, and that rocks, it even still has a cool 90s theme. |
| Christian Goths | Check out the photos, looks like the people in them were having a fun time, and that is all that really matters. |
| Black Sabbath Fan Club Deutschland | Black Sabbath's very own fan club from Deutschland, pure 90s bliss that has Sabbath updates, the band's LP discography, along with an odd page asking if the viewer knows anything about a woman who when to "a Pearl Jam concert somewhere in the USA in August/September 1996 or so". |
| Censorship of The Amazing World of Gumball | A collection of a list of edits made to The Amazing World of Gumball made by Cartoon Network UK. |
| British Censorship of The Simpsons | A guide list of (most) of the UK edits done to The Simpsons when they were broadcasted over in the UK. |
| How to hitchhike | A very long and honest guide to how YOU can hitchhike around the globe. Seemly not many people know about Wikivoyage, but here it is. Funny that it is a bit unknown, it is a sister roject of Wikipedia, but hey-ho, what you goin' to do? |
| This site is dedicated to Velma Dinkley & Scooby Doo ! | Seemly a whole site dedicated to "most under-appreciated member of Mysteries Inc", that being Velma Dinkley. This is a really odd experiences, as this site's contents was last updated in 2017, so you think "oh, this is a joke to make a website look like it's old", but no, if you chuck the URL in the Internet Archive, you will see that it has been going since 2002. A whole website dedicated to Velma Dinkley from Scooby Doo since 2002. This is insanity. |
| Pictures of Cons that Blue Heeler SunFire has been to | Here is a site that had a good amount of old photos from furry cons from 1998 to 2005. There is a good amount of what would be considered to be "cursed" images on this site. |
| Open Source Rotary Cellphone | A "rotary cellphone", a cellphone that has a rotary dial on it. It looks like a brick. I love it. |
| Ruth Belville | Wikipedia page on Ruth Belville, who was also known as "Greenwich Time Lady", who was a woman who "sold" the time to people, by that, she had a watch and for a price she would let people look at it, allowing them to synch their own watch to hers. |
| Category:Street art | Wikimedia collection of street art, some good pieces on here. |
| People playing chess on roller coasters | old part of the xkcd website based on a comic that they made once. |
| Giant Hampster Page | Old ass-site of someone photo-shopping a hamster into famous photos, life could not be even more simple. |
| Spite house | Wikipedia article about spite houses, a "building constructed or substantially modified to irritate neighbors or any party with land stakes". |
| Archive of Hacked Websites | Sometime around the 2000s, some person called THC started to archive and mirror websites that were hacked. Big shout out to such mad lads as \\StOrM\\, Power Through Resistance, H4G1S, Circle of Deception, No|d Crew who all hacked into some sort of government body or the like. |
| This Person Does Not Exist | Generates a new face made by a deep learning AI. |
| Which Face Is Real | Site to test you to see which face you think is real and which you think is in fact one made by a neural network. This can be tricky at times, but once you know some tricks (for example, the network isn't all that good at recreating glasses or earnings), your spotting skills will becomes very good. |
| BotPoet: Bot or Not? | A website that is the "Turing test for poetry", where you need to guess if a poem was made by a human or a robot. |
| This resume does not exist | Make up a whole new resume (CV)! |
| Selfie2Anime | A neural network that turns images of humans into ones hat look like they are from an Anime, not the best of NN, but oh well. |
| Style2Paints | A bot that helps add colour to drawings. |
| Animal Photo Art References Search | This is useful. |
| Peelopaalu | NC site that has a fair amount of links on it, seemly helped by the kind people over on at 4chan. |
| Songwriters: Just Make Music | A site made by two people that generated all the melodies in the world, it has their GitHub page and their archive.org page of all the melodies that you can download, it's 0ver 600 GB though, so you might not want to do it. |
| Mr. Teal | Webcomic reader with some enhanced comic packs available. |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Website made to show off the maximum number of allowed characters in an URL. |
| 4 Band Resistor Color Code Calculator | This is the most useful calculator ever created. |
| the edge | CSS tricks from 2001/2002. |
| GravenImageCat | A guy on FA who publishes photos that they took of gravestones in New England. |
| Wide-band WebSDR | Place where you can listen to short wave radio stations from around the world. |
| Station Schedule | Priyom.org is an international group of radio enthusiasts who came together during 2010 when activity from the station known as "UVB-76" increased. |
| The Conet Project | Archive of number station audio. |
| I'm a fucking webmaster | Like my status if ur a fucking webmaster. |
| The Geocities Gallery | Looks like oocities is gone but thankfully another geo archive sprang up. |
| GetLinkInfo | Shortened URL resolver, very useful for whenever a scammer sends you a link. |
| Ice Chewers Bulletin Board | The out-there fetish BBS about ice chewers, has been going for a long time, so there are lots of posts to explore. |
| WiFi - SM: feel the global pain | "WiFi-SM is an Internet connected wireless device that you can fix on any part of your body". |
| Garfield comics | Garfield comics strips they Jim Davis, rather than someone else working for him, has made. |
| MOZILLA KICKS ASS! | Fan website for the web browser. |
| Phonebashing | Site for killing the phone of others. |
| My Phone History | A social network where people list/review the mobile phones they've used. |
| List of music considered the worst | Wikipedia page of music considered the worst. This page has a number of amazedly harsh comments, such as this quote talking about Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice; A Houston Press critic named it as the worst song ever to emanate from the state of Texas, and said that it "set back the cause of white people in hip-hop a decade".
Damn. The page also talks about a bootleg album called "Elvis' Greatest Shit" (charming), an album that is an "album consisting largely of outtakes and a selection of Elvis' movie soundtrack songs of the 1960s, which was deliberately made to highlight the worst of his career". The album is so classy, the album cover even has a real photo of Elvis in an open casket, like fuck. |
| Cool Fancy Text Generator | Sick of normal ASCII? Ⓣⓗⓔⓝ ₮Ⱨł₴ 𝕨𝕖𝕓𝕤𝕚𝕥𝕖 нαѕ g҉o҉t҉ чσu |
| Internet Bumper Stickers | Full of sin. |
| Pen Island Pens | Apparently the URL can look like something else. |
| The Malware Wiki | Full of information of malware. |
| Killed by Google | List of services discontinued by Google. |
| ⒶNNARCHIVE | Collection of historical games media and DOS shareware. |
| Spaced Out | The website of the cult Channel 4 TV show, Spaced, staring a rather young Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and also directed by Edgar Wright. Highly recommend finding a copy of the show, as it is highly funny. |
| NHS Blood Quiz | I found a page on the old blood.co.uk website via archive.org on who can and cannot give blood, this quiz, that the last part of it seems to not load due to Flash, has the question "Are you a man who has had oral or anal sex with another man (even if you used a condom)?". As late 2014, there were changes that allowed gay and bisexual men to donate their blood if they had sex within the past three months. To quote the NHS website; "Using protection like a condom can reduce this risk, but it doesn't eliminate it. [...] That is why we can't collect blood from men who have had oral or anal sex with men, with or without protection, in the last 3 months. This isn't meant to be discriminatory. It's not based on anyone's sexual history or sexuality. It reflects statistical risks for the sexual behaviour that increases the risk of virus transmission." |
| Sharpest ever view of the Andromeda Galaxy | Dummy thicc space image, absolute fucking madlad. for reference the fullsize image is 4.3gb and 69536 x 22230 px (approx 1.5 billion total). |
| Mia's clown site | Nice looking site ran by someone who has a passion for clowns. The site is semi-new, but has a fair amount of content on it, also the owner's art is very good. I don't really have an interest in clowns all that much, but I'm glad that the owner has one, she also seems to be quite a nice person. |
| Category:Artwork depicting Natalia Poklonskaya | Little weird, Wikimedia, but okay. |
| Free Steam Keys | This is always gold. |
| The Castles of Wales | Old website last updated around August 2017 of castles in Wales (and also a few in England). |
| Petit tube | A site that shows YouTube videos with zero views. |
| BBC News Pidgin | The official BBC website in Pidgin English, a hybrid of the Queen's English (Nigeria was once a British colony) with numerous words from Igbo and other tribal languages such as Biafran, Yoruba, and Hausa. |
| Digital forensic facial reconstructions | Here are a large number of photos on Wikimedia of digital forensic facial reconstructions, in other words, this is an updated version of the police sketch of a suspect/missing person drawings for the digital age. |
| Hacked Homepages | An archive of hacked websites. |
| Chao Garden! | Mirror of an abandoned early-2000s sonic fansite. |
| Purple | Purple. |
| ISoldPurple.com | In loving memory of a truly great website. |
| Make Frontend Shit Again | The golden age of the Internet is DEAD. |
| yyyyyyy.info | Odd art site that changes every-time that you reload the page. |
| Wikipedia nostalgia site | Old version of the English Wikipedia, never updated, but still interesting. |
| Stop Hitler | Can you stop Hitler? |
| 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 . c o m | Weird art site from around 2006. |
| MicroWiki | Wiki dedicated to micronation, nations that are unrecognised by the wider international community. |
| TIL George called Yoko a bitch for eating one of his biscuits | Strange event around The Beatles. |
| Chocolate Cacao チョコレートカカオ | This YouTube channel gave me constipation. |
| A Message for Marta (2001) | Album that was made from audio clips from an answering machine. One of the tracks was later used on Club Penguin. |
| Doctor Who - The Classic Series | The classic BBC website for Doctor Who, now archived. Most of the links still work, but hardly any - if not all - of the audio and Flash links work. |
| BBC Cult Site | The BBC's very own cult site that has bios for classic cult television. |
| miiiwu's site | Nice little website that has a helpful guide to Mastodon. |
| Online Sequencer | Make music online. |
| Melobytes | (text to song) (procedurally generated music). |
| BlueMaxima's Flashpoint | For the web archivists and historians in here, have 76GB of Flash games! |
| DOS haven | Some modern indie games for DOS because why not. |
| Cosmic Voyage | A collaborative sci-fi story. |
| Ghost in Masung Tunnel | Comic by the same person who made Bongcheon-Dong Ghost. |
| Bongcheon-Dong Ghost | Who remembers this? Fair bit of warning if you don't like shock scares. |
| The Daniel From kent and Daniel Ate My BALLS Homepage | Even OwlMan made an "ate my balls" page. |
| ate my balls | Archive of some Ate My Balls sites (early web meme). |
| Crap from the Past | Here's some previous broadcasts of a Radio Show called Crap from the Past that's been consistently on the air since 1992. |
| danooct1 | This dude's YouTube channel shows virus demos 'n' stuff. |
| ReallyRareWares | A collection of old, hard to find audio programs. |
| The WWW Project | I think it would be quite fitting for the first link to be the first website. |