links in bold lead into subpages of the directory.

art

• artists
• cameron's world
• comics and manga
  • emily comics - by the creator of the "waow basedbasedbasedbased" meme
  • homunculus - really cool webcomic by klaufir. it's my comfort comic.
  • my impossible soulmate - Jocelyn Samara's current gay webcomic
  • new england nightmare
  • rain - queer webcomic by Jocelyn Samara that ran for over a decade
  • so long to everything, i guess - comic about espers by mouette
  • traum - cool adventure webcomic
• distortion gallery - serial experiments lain fansite
• graphics archives
  • animal photo references repository
  • betty's graphics
  • gifcities - geocities animated gif search engine
  • the spriters resource - collection of spritesheets ripped from videogames
  • texturetown - thousands of textures
  • 88x31 gif collection
• harmony - drawing tool that connects neighbouring points drawn, for a cool effect
• internet ray tracing competition archive - cgi from 1996 to 2006
• lipu monsuta - toki pona horror anthology zine
• living worlds - god tier pixel art landscapes with colour cycling and palette shifting and a slider to adjust time of day
  • even more, but without the time of day slider
• loveweb - animated series about cool internet stuff
• marienkäfer - vintage shop and gallery
• millmint - factbook and stories for vekllei worldbuilding project
• the old robots
• petscop - video series about a weird ps1 game, actually really good
• shaded relief - cartography
• theiling online - mainly henrik theiling's tinkering and conlangs
• vgperson's stuff - translations and original things
• what is textmode
• whitedesert - a collection of surreallism and horror

games

• bay 12 games - mostly known for dwarf fortress
• corru observer - crazy good browser game
• the cutting room floor - unused videogame content
• flesh, blood, & concrete
• harmony zone - weird pages about video games
• heisei pistol show
  • translation - by patchy illusion team
  • nomoida's review
    • bonus page
• imo team
• lain psx browser port
• the mushroom kingdom - old mario fansite that still gets updated
• nonograms
• oneshot on yno - the original free version hosted online with multiplayer
• pokémon
  • pokégods - page explaining old myths about fake pokémon
• supper mario broth - mario information blog
• wikiasteroids - asteroids game powered by real time wikipedia edits
• yume nikki - a very influential 2004 indie game

linguistics

• ardalambion - site about j.r.r. tolkien's conlangs
• https://atlas.lisn.upsaclay.fr/ - speaking atlas of minority languages in Europe
• chinese character wiki
• english and scots dialects
  • appalachian linguistic suite
  • cumbrian language in its cultural context - online book by simon roper
  • dictionaries of the scots language
  • yorkshire dialect verse - mostly written in eye dialect, so they're pointlessly hard to read. there are audio recordings, but they're read weirdly
• ipa charts with audio
• legends of localization - articles about videogame translation
• lingala dictionary / translation - very useful for looking up lingala words, actual peak website design
• lipu sona pona (toki pona course) - has other stuff too
• runetyper
• 昨日 sakubi - japanese grammar guide
• sca2 - sound change applier
• stedt - sino-tibetan etymological dictionary and thesaurus
• suomen murrekirjan äänitteet - finnish dialect recordings
• toki pona official site

misc

• lugaw - hannah's site
• the most amazing website on the internet - may destroy your visual cortex or give you a seizure
• kaomoji: japanese emoticons - a list

music

• gondola webm collection
• incompetech - royalty-free music
• webamp • winamp 2 in your browser - has an archive of skins
• every noise at once - samples of thousands of musical genres plotted by similarity

politics

• marxist library
• stop payment processors from censorship - info on petitions and how to contact paypros
• protect queer creators and sex workers

science

• astrometry - very useful tool for getting astronomical information from images
• earth - global map of weather, wind, and ocean conditions

tech

• archiveteam
• bluesky age verification workarounds
• crt database
• easy 6502 - learn mos 6502 assembly
• foundations of a tiny directory
• folklore.org - development of the original macintosh
• html cheatsheet
• learn morse code
• let's decentralize - decentralised alternatives
• maia arson crimew's site
• nathan's toasty technology page - very old tech website that's still updated sometimes
• the oldschool pc font resource
• the past on plastic - massive archive of stuff off shovelware cds mainly from the 90s
• software and online tools
  • dcode - puzzle and cypher solver
  • ezgif - useful browser gif editor
  • i want hue - optimally distinct colour palette generator
  • petpet - headpat gif generator
  • rot13.com - rot13 encryptor and decryptor
  • wide-band webSDR - short wave radio receiver
• textfiles.com - archive of very old and interesting text files
• transfeminine science - transfem hrt info
• the world wide web project - the oldest website
• 6502.org - the 6502 microprocessor resource