Rei's Home Page

Here is a personal website hosted on MITs servers for Rei, or Eri Izawa, that has been up since 1994. On it is a ton of links pertaining to Rei's interests; Anime/Manga, Art, birds (hey @jacetchan), akido, spirituality, and random thoughts. There is also an HTML game made by Rei

The History of the Web Part I: the First 20 Years

A great lecture from Professor Dame Wendy Hall given December 11, 2011 on the history of the Web and the first 20 years of it's development. I know the lecture is old at this point, but the information presented is still historically accurate. Gives a deep understanding as to the

World Wide Web Ruin

This site explores the Old Web as an ancient ruins. The link provided is more like an explanation landing page of this concept along with some stats about the Web. There is a link to experience the Modern Web in a somewhat funny but realistic interpretation. The real gold here

SignWriting.org -- A Writing System for Sign Langauages

SignWriting, a writing system created by Valerie Sutton that allows sign languages to be written, read, typed, archived, and published just like spoken languages. Launched with its first post in September 1996 and still looking closely to what it probably looked like in 1996, the

Lenna -- The Controverial Centerfold Image Used To Test Compression Algorithms

This site tells the story of the infamous Lenna image. The photo, originally published in the November 1972 issue of Playboy magazine, was used by researchers to test image compression algorithms. A fun fact, this was also the most sold issue of Playboy ever with 7,161,561 copies

The Psychophysics Psyber Lab

A great example of an old school academic research site. The subject itself is about how organisms use their senses to detect and interpret events in the environment, focusing on function and not so much biological structure. It's the modeling of how perception works. According t

Programming Tutorials And Lecture Notes (JAVA, Assembly, Vector Graphics)

Here are some older, but solid, full tutorials on Java Assembly for MIPS, and a tutorial on vector graphics. I believe it is a mirror of https://chortle.ccsu.edu/, which is linked to the Computer Science Dept. at Central Connecticut State University.

Paperkraft - Free Papercraft, Paper Model, & Papertoy

A blog that ran from 2006 to 2015. Inside are posts and pictures of incredible papercraft creations. It covers the whole gamut of nerd fandoms. If you like Pokémon fan art and creations, you'll love this. There's something for everyone here! Seriously though, there are some prett

web.dev

A website put out by the Chrome team, it offers free courses on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, as well as a course on Progressive Web Apps (PWA).

Welcome to Universal Paperclips -- Simple Paperclip Browser Game

Herre is a fun little browser game where you manufacture and sell paperclips.

HTML Reference - A free guide to all HTML elements and attributes.

A clean and well laid out website. Tag catagories are toggable (experimental, tables, etc). The examples and visuals are straightforward and helpful. One wish I did have was that there was a dark mode toggle. It also has a sister site, cssreference.io that's basically the same la

r33b.net - ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!

Here's a website that's been around since about 2003. It's one of those useless but fun websites that was just someone's passion project. There is a fun ASCII art Easter egg if you look at the source code for this site. Another fun fact is that this site was launched and has been

escape.com -- Providing Online Services Since 1987 (Until 2002)

Escape.com was an online service started in 1987. It's origins started a year earlier as a BBS running on a Commadore 64 and 1200-baud modem. In 1994 it became an ISP and expanded quickly into the Millennium. Escape was one of the first ISPs, predating most commercial providers.

Bacon Ipsum - A Meatier Lorem Ipsum Generator

Great when you need some meaty filler text served up.

Shadow Island Games -- pbm.com

I had never heard of PBM (play-by-mail) or PBEM (play-by-email) games before finding this site. It was apparently sort of a big thing. You would send in you moves via an email and then it would email you the results of your move in the game. There were lots of games, but Olympia:

The Digital Homestead of Thomas E Havorford

Here is a personal website that I believe is newer but has that old web aesthetic. Right off that bat, you are greeted with a flying thru space background, an Energy Star logo, and a giant .gif of Clippy. There are some writings on personal website creation, math, and Linux. Some

Material Design

An open source Google created design language. Currently on v3 of the spec. Also Includes archived copies of v1 and v2 of the spec. Great for apps, websites, or anything where you need a GUI. Make consistently good-looking projects fast with an already established design language

The Creative Works of Andy Weir

Before he was famous for The Martian, Andy Weir made video games and web comics. In August of 2009 he published The Egg to the site. You can find this in the Creative Writings section, translated into over 30+ languages. First online: ~2000 Last content update: August 15, 2

The Magic of CSS

Algorithms, 4th Edition by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne

Free textbook on algorithms

OpenCode | The open source AI coding agent

OpenCode is an open source AI coding agent that helps developers write code in their terminal, IDE, or desktop. It offers free models and the ability to connect with various AI models, including those from providers like Claude, GPT, and Gemini. With over 70,000 GitHub stars, 500 contributors, and 7,000 commits, it is trusted by over 650,000 developers monthly. OpenCode ensures privacy by not storing any code or context data.

Free Java Programming Resources - PDF Tutorials & Projects

Curated collection of resources

Famelack (formerly tv.garden)

Similar to https://radio.garden/, this site broadcasts television stations from all over the world. Credit to @shapeintheclouds