The Wall of Old Web Buttons & Links

A digital wunderkammer

I was fascinated by old blogs and web diaries and journals. I quickly looked around to search for the old, non-commercial arena of blogs and websites and then, lo and behold, I found a community who is as tired as me with the deteriorating Google searches and as excited as me to have a small corner in the good ol' world-wide-web as the old web. It all started with me trying to compose a blog list of my own, so I made a page to dump all my liked blogs and websites and while tinkering around I came across Ye Olde Blogroll, amazing repository of personal, independent, free-from-commerciality, floating-with-creativity webpages.

I made a list for my own reference. It's still a bit wonky. Okay, it's basically a dumpyard, I know. But, let me know by comments or email if you want to be a part of my lil Old Web Wall.

MORE ABOUT THE OLD WEB

(If you want to read more about the old web phenomenon, manifestos, handbooks, and essays that explain, defend, or teach the indie/small-web ethos, etc...)
Nu Cyberspace
Is “The Web As a Tool For Thought” a Gating Item?
Yesterweb – Manifesto · reclaim the social web, rebuild small communities.
web0 Manifesto · “decentralisation without the crypto cosplay.” A prickly counterpoint to web3.
Cluetrain Manifesto (1999) · OG web ethos: “markets are conversations.” Still a touchstone.
Contract for the Web (Berners-Lee) · 9 principles for governments, companies, citizens.
W3C Ethical Web Principles · “the web is for end users”; humane defaults from the standards folks.
IndieWeb's Principles & Manifesto · own your domain/data; build for yourself; have fun. (No official manifesto, but living principles.)
My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be? · your site as a living, poetic space, not a product.
Motherfucking Website & The best motherfucking website · plain-HTML polemics against bloat; funny and sharp.
The History of the Web (Jay Hoffmann) · timelines + essays mapping the web’s eras.
welcome to smallweb!
what is the smol web?
Poor Man's Web
SmolNet
Kagi Small Web
Why Smolweb is good for the Internet
The Small Web and Science
Manifesto for a Humane Web
We Need To Rewild The Internet 
GeoCities’ Afterlife and Web History (Geocities Institute) · what was lost and what was saved.
Geocities, Identity and the Problem With Disappearing Web Services · contemporary reports worth linking for newcomers.
Developer Turns Geocities Archive Into a 'Digital Pompeii'
Mike Caulfield's The Garden and the Stream · two metaphors for publishing: evergreen “gardens” vs newsy “streams.”
Maggie Appleton's A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden · patterns for tending a non-linear site.
Gwern.net uses minimal design + deep internal linking and “hypertext browsing features”; his “About” and “Design” pages lay out principles you can adapt (stable pages, semantic links, fast typography).
Frank Chimero's The Web’s Grain · design with (not against) the medium’s nature.
Maciej Cegłowski's The Website Obesity Crisis · classic talk on page bloat and restraint.
Permacomputing (wiki) + principles · regenerative, repair-first computing for the web era.
Le Monde on Permacomputing · the movement in practice (Varia, solar servers, feminist servers).
Feminist Principles of the Internet - Version 2.0 By APC · 17 principles; agency, access, pleasure, power.
A Feminist Server Manifesto (0.01) · collective notes on running servers with care and friction (on purpose).
Austin Kleon's 15 years of blogging (and 3 reasons to keep going) · why small, daily posts compound.
Anil Dash's Personal blogs are where tech news happens (2024) · the renaissance argument.
Manuel Moreale's People & Blogs (series) · ongoing interviews mapping today’s personal-site scene.

WEBLINKS & WEBRINGS

(These contain indie webrings, websites for blogs, gobbly blogrolls and search engines as well!)
Ye Olde Blogroll (My absolute favorite!)
MelonLand
SmolNet
Old Computer Club! - A virtual club interested in collecting, restoring, and history of computing. Our mission is to preserve computing history through education, conservation, and restoration, also make it easier to access related resources.
Indie Internet Index 
Minifeed

~ Oizys.

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