| endchan /baaa2/
the busiest art board outside 4chan in a sweep of four hundred imageboards, and it still only moves about forty posts a month.
art board / kept 2026.10.03 |
still there
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| arisuchan /art/
art and design on a cyberpunk board. five posts in the last month, but people answer each other, which is the part that matters.
art board / kept 2026.10.03 |
still there
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| refugio 76 /art/
the drawing board of a spanish language imageboard. about twenty posts a month, which for this corner of the web counts as busy.
art board / kept 2026.10.03 |
still there
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| questden /draw/
attached to a community that writes drawn quests. the oekaki applet still loads and people still finish threads with it.
art board / kept 2026.10.03 |
still there
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| hikari3 /i/
an oekaki board, meaning you draw in the browser window instead of uploading a file. the last drawing went up in may.
art board / kept 2026.10.03 |
still there
checked 2026.10.27 |
| petit note
japanese oekaki bbs, the format 4chan's /i/ was copied from. you draw in the page and the drawing is the post.
art board / kept 2026.10.03 |
still there
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| pixel joint
a pixel art gallery from the early 2000s with a weekly challenge and a front page somebody still picks by hand.
art board / kept 2026.10.03 |
still there
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| lospec gallery
pixel art listed next to the palettes it was drawn with. the palette library is the part everyone ends up using.
art board / kept 2026.10.03 |
still there
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| 16colo.rs
the ansi and ascii art archive. scene packs going back to the early nineties, rendered in the browser the way they looked in a dos terminal.
art board / kept 2026.10.03 |
still there
checked 2026.10.27 |
| textfiles ascii art
jason scott's ascii collection, sitting in the same plain directory listing it has had for decades.
art board / kept 2026.10.03 |
still there
checked 2026.10.27 |
| pouet.net
the demoscene's index of productions, every release argued over underneath by people who were in the room.
art board / kept 2026.10.03 |
still there
checked 2026.10.27 |
| gifcities
the internet archive's search engine for geocities gifs. type a word and get the animated version of it from 1998.
art board / kept 2026.10.03 |
still there
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| whitney artport
a museum's net art portal, holding commissions from 2001 that somebody now has to keep running on purpose.
art board / kept 2026.10.03 |
still there
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| jodi
net art from 1995, still served from its own domain, still built out of the kind of html that does not rot.
art board / kept 2026.10.03 |
still there
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| complexification
generative work from 2004 with a note on how each piece was made. one person's site, one person's hosting.
art board / kept 2026.10.03 |
still there
checked 2026.10.27 |
| inconvergent
generative drawings written up alongside the algorithms underneath them, which is rarer than the drawings.
art board / kept 2026.10.03 |
still there
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| cari
the consumer aesthetics research institute, naming and dating the visual styles that nobody had names for.
art board / kept 2026.10.03 |
still there
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| drawpile
a shared canvas several people draw on at once. sessions are listed publicly and you can walk into one.
art board / kept 2026.10.03 |
still there
checked 2026.10.27 |