Hello Web Directory!

Search And Web Directories

• Marginalia Search - A search engine that returns pages that don't suck.
• The WWW Virtual Library. - The oldest still-running web directory.
• Neocities Districts

Software

• EMACS, the best text editor in the world.
• Firefox. All web browsers suck, this one sucks the least.
• The Tor Browser - A browser designed to be used over the Tor network. Some of the best anonymous browsing you can get.

Websites That Don't Suck

These pages are websites that broadly follow the TIDS philosophy. Most importantly, this means no advertising.

• Neocities, a website hosting handmade internet with no ads.
• Cockeyed.com, a website for pranks and things.
• The Gallery Of Regretable Food
• Make Frontend Shit Again
• Museum of Bad Art - Because bad art is good.
• The Personal Homepage Of Everest Pipkin - An artist we greatly admire, who values good internet.
• QZAP Queer Zine Archive. Zines!

Weird Shit From The Old Internet

Cults, conspiracies, weird people.

• Church of the Subgenius
• Heaven's Gate
• Time Cube (Archived) (Alternate restoration here.)
• Church of the Flying Spagetti Monster
• Principia Discordia
• After The Rapture Pet Care
• Banned Books and Conspiracy Theories - Hosted on a raw FTP server, as is right and proper.
• TempleOS - The Temple Operating System
• The Fifth Nail Exposed - The personal blog of serial killer Joseph E. Duncan III

Link Aggregators

Before social media, people relied on link aggregators to find new websites.

• BoingBoing - The homepage of Cory Doctorow.

Copyright Resistance

Samizdat, etc. Many of these pages get periodically taken down or moved. Search for them if the links are dead.

• Library Genesis. You can download almost any book for free here.
  Mirrors:
  • libgen.rs
  • library.lol
  • libgen.is
  • libgen.st
• Sci-Hub. Download almost any academic paper for free. Mirrors:
  • sci-hub.st
• IPFS, the Interplanetary File System. Censorship-resistant decentralized file storage.
• Wikipedia: Comparison of Bittorrent sites. Useful for finding currently active trackers.

Math

• A Neighborhood Of Infinity, Haskell-focused blog with odd software.

Hacker Shit

• Hack This Site - Learn web security with real exploit puzzles!
• Richard Stallman's Homepage. Creator of EMACS, and general open-source force of nature.

Webcomics

Directories

The Webcomic List

Individual Comics

Comics from the old internet.

• Keenspot - Host for many comics back in the day, now much smaller.
• Ozy and Millie - This was one of our favorite comics growing up, first comic available here.
• Dana Simpson would later go on to create Phoebe and Her Unicorn
• Newshounds
• Chopping Block
• Kevin and Kell - One of the first webcomics I read.
• Sluggy Freelance - Long running, also one of the first comics we ever read.
• GPF Comics (First comic link here.)
• A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversable
• The Perry Bible Fellowship
• Sexy Losers (NSFW)
• Get Your War On
• Sinfest (First comic link here.)
• Oglaf (NSFW) (You may know this from this comic.
• Rob & Elliot - First comic here.
• 1/0
• Gunnerkrieg Court - A classic!
• Dan & Mab's Furry Adventures - Hugely influential to the early webcomic scene.
• A Softer World
• Kit & Kay Boodle (NSFW) - Is it a good comic? No. Do I love it? Yes.
• Suicide For Hire - Also bad, but also one I liked reading for the "edginess".
• Achewood - First strip here.
• Amazing Super Powers
• The Class Menagerie
• Dex Lives
• Garfield Minus Garfield
• Nedroid Picture Diary
• Dinosaur Comics
• The Last Halloween - Abby Howard is a horror genius.
• Bob the Angry Flower - Man this used to be everywhere.
• The Book Of Biff
• Boomer Express
• Boy Meets Boy
• Boxjam's Doodle - The past few comics are about how no one reads it. Hah.

I am currently searching through The Webcomics List to find the active webcomics I read back in ~2006.

R.I.P. to Dragon Tales, PartiallyClips, User Friendly, The Splendid Everlasting...

Datasets

• AOL Search Data
• Academic Torrents - See a dataset somewhere? It can probably be downloaded here.

Gaming

• The Interactive Fiction Database - Browse through thousands of text adventures, all downloadable for free!
• Sensei's Library - Resources for the game of Go

Bad Art

Things that are bad.

• Ain't No Sunshine - A webcomic made out of pictures of shit. Found while researching the webcomics list, and had to share.

Personal Pages

Funny Things

• FuckIt.js - The Original Javascript Error Steamroller
• www.1997toyotatacomawaterpumpgasket.com

Cute Things

Music

News

• "Everything is bad, all the time!"

Science

• United Nuclear - Sells random stuff, like huge neodynium magnets and spinthariscopes!

Food

• Tarla Dalal - A bunch of recipes for Indian food. Comprehensive, few ads.

Miscellaneous

• All The Tropes - A fork of TVTropes, with much less site bullshit.
• Koalas To The Max - A calming little site: Uncover a picture of a Koala made of dots.
• Newgrounds - Still around.
• Floppy Swop - Anything that fits on a floppy disk.
• Lord of the Peeps
• GifCities - Search through the Geocities GIF archive
• Totse
• Apple Rankings - Some guy ranked a bunch of apples. It's great. Go eat an apple.

Things We've Heard Of And Seem Useful But Can't Personally Vouch For

• Cryptpad - An encrypted collaboration suite. Web 2.0-y.
• Proton Mail - Encrypted email. Useful if you're looking to replace Gmail, etc.