partyline

the ring at the punycode domain that renders as three emoji. members need an indieweb profile, which keeps it small on purpose.

a ring for sites where making money is not the point. about ninety percent of applicants get in.

a webring for personal sites with individual personality, moderated by hand. one of the few rings that still reviews applications.

the host this archive sits on. free static pages, no adverts, no javascript required, and a file type whitelist that is why the stations here stream from elsewhere.

the running list of services that announced they are closing and what is being saved before they do. the obituary page of the internet.

wikipedia, stack exchange and gutenberg packed into files you can read with no internet at all. the offline half of keeping your own copy.

self hosted archiving. point it at a url and it keeps html, a screenshot, a pdf and the media, on your disk rather than somebody else s.

the geocities rescue, browsable by neighbourhood the way it was organised in 1996.

screenshots of sites as they looked between 1991 and the present, arranged so you can watch the whole web change its mind about layout.

what became of dmoz, the hand edited directory of the web. still volunteer run, still sorted by people.

a video site built to feel like youtube in 2009, down to the layout. answering but showing a maintenance notice when this archive last looked.

one status update at a time, no threads, no likes, no algorithm. twitter reduced to the only part that was ever any good.

a quiet pub drawn in ascii where people leave short posts and replies. deliberately slow, deliberately small.

a gopher proxy that still answers, and the easiest way to see that gopherspace never actually died.

a public access community whose front page tells you to reach it with netcat on port 1900, which tells you everything about who it is for.

free shell accounts, static hosting, gemini space and a mail server, run for people who want to learn unix by using it.

a protocol between gopher and the web, with no scripts, no cookies and no tracking possible. the spec is short enough to read in an evening.

a pubnix with a few hundred people, home pages, and a rule against being miserable to each other.

a hand planted directory built on the argument that the internet used to be worth stumbling through. the walk button drops you somewhere at random.

breached, ddosed and sued twice, and still the only reason large parts of the last thirty years are readable.

layout builders, webmastery guides and an opinion about what the web is for. a lot of neocities pages started from her generator.

thousands of the original buttons, sorted into pages and kept as gifs rather than reuploads. the other half of the button record.

the people who mirror services the week they announce a shutdown. the wiki doubles as an obituary index for the web.

a database of 88x31 buttons scraped from across the web, searchable, with the sites they came from. the biggest button pile there is.

jason scott’s pile of bbs era text: philes, ansi art, and the documents the scene wrote about itself.

one of the geocities mirrors that caught what was falling in 2009. patchy, ugly, irreplaceable.

a collage built entirely from geocities fragments. the closest thing to a museum diorama the web has.

a proxy that serves the old web to real vintage machines. point a 1996 browser at it and the internet comes back.

browse archived pages inside period browsers in your browser. netscape rendering 1998 the way 1998 looked.

a hand built directory and webring index, run in the spirit of a 1997 link farm and better maintained than most.

the anti corporate web community that shut its own doors rather than rot. the forums are closed and the writing is deliberately left standing.

the same argument, stricter, sorted into green, orange and blue tiers by page weight.

a list of pages whose total weight is under a megabyte. an argument disguised as a directory.

static hosting for hand written pages, the closest thing to a neocities rival, with a friendlier file limit.

a forum and a surf club for personal sites, loud in the way a 2004 fansite was loud.

running since 1987. shell accounts, gopher, a radio station and a membership that predates the web.

another public unix with home pages, gopher and a phlog culture that never left.

a unix box with user directories, started in 2014 as a joke about the old web and still up.

a search index that deliberately ranks down commercial pages. one person, one server, non commercial web only.

a search engine for pages built by people. results are hand reviewed and there is a surprise me button that works.

exhaustive privacy teardowns of software nobody else audits, written with no interest in being liked.

link dumps in numbered editions and a man who actually maintains his own server. the format most small sites are quietly copying.

a full mirror of sizeof.cat kept on arisuchan’s host after the original went dark. this is why you keep your own copy.

single page snapshots on demand. it keeps pages the wayback machine is asked not to keep, which is exactly when you need it.

the browser telemetry measurements nobody else repeats, plus years of writing. the author gave up on the internet and the domain stopped answering. mirrored at sizeof.arisuchan.xyz, and archive.is holds copies, because the wayback record is blank.