///LINKS /smol /radio /open /repos /random /sdf /read --- ///SMOL SmolNet wiki - https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/SmolNet All possible oldschool pc fonts - https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/ Internet Phonebook (listings of a lot of small blogs, artistic ventures) - https://internetphonebook.net/ WWWtxt (messages from the Internet, pre and post Eternal September) - https://wwwtxt.org/about Gemini BBS (a BBS in the Gemspace) - https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/bbs.geminispace.org/ Offpunk (commandline-first, offline browser) - https://offpunk.net/ Present-day Usenet newsgroup/server https://www.eternal-september.org/index.php?language=en retronetworking.org (hobbyists documenting historical communication) - https://retronetworking.org/ 88x31 buttons for all - https://hellnet.work/8831/ NoAIuse button (88x31) - https://www.noaiuse.org/ Database for many (most) things CRT - https://crtdatabase.com/ Nyx (Public Access UNIX System, very similar to SDF) - https://www.nyx.net/index.html cat-V (hosts a series of sites dedicated to diverse subjects that share an idiosyncratic intellectual perspective) - http://cat-v.org/ ENIGMA 2000 newsletters (numbers stations, information, and radio waves!) - http://www.signalshed.com/nletter05.html Ian Langworth's archive, in retro commandline form! - https://langworth.com/ Resources list for the personal web (tips, tutorials and software to start a personal site on the Internet) - https://discourse.32bit.cafe/t/resources-list-for-the-personal-web/49 Tools for Discovering the Smol Web - https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/12/20/tools-for-discovering-the-indieweb/ links.net (from archive.org) (a daily writer discovering blogs and bloggers (in 1997!) - https://web.archive.org/web/19970110180549/http://www.links.net/www/vita.html e-zines (replacing traditional newsletters and magazines via plaintext circa 1995) - http://web.textfiles.com/ezines/ --- ///RADIO online radio (worldwide) - https://radio.garden online radio (rarities and goodies) - https://somafm.com/ Traditional AM/FM radio stations online - https://mytuner-radio.com aNONradio (SDF public radio) - https://anonradio.net/ cb radio slang - https://myradiolab.com/cb-radio-slang-and-10-codes/ police scanner on the Web (+ more) - https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/ctid/1572 all things amateur radio - https://www.radioreference.com/ software defined radio - https://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-blog-v-3-dongles-user-guide/ LoRa components - https://heltec.org/ More LoRa components - https://store.rokland.com/ Even more LoRa components - https://www.waveshare.com/ LoRa data/bitrate calculator - https://www.rfwireless-world.com/calculators/LoRa-Data-Rate-Calculator.html Rattlegram (SMS over FM radio waves) - https://www.aicodix.de/cofdmtv/rattlegram/ websdr (listen to and control a short-wave receiver) - http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ Callook (no-nonsense amateur radio U.S.A. callsign lookups) - https://callook.info/ --- ///OPEN LibreTranslate https://libretranslate.com/ OpenWeather https://openweathermap.org/ Anna's Archive https://annas-archive.org/ OpenStreetmap https://www.openstreetmap.org OpenAPK (open source APKs for Android) - https://www.openapk.net/ --- ///REPOS Cool Retro Term (CRT) (terminal emulator that mimicks a CRT display) - https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term scrcpy (mirror Android phone onto Linux) - https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/blob/master/doc/linux.md#from-an-install-script DOStodon (Mastodon client for MS DOS) - https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon Some Assembly Required (learn Assembly Language) - https://github.com/hackclub/some-assembly-required Awesome Self-hosted - https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted Awesome Useful Projects - https://github.com/Furthir/awesome-useful-projects?tab=readme-ov-file yt-dlp (download YouTube videos via cli) - https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/ free public APIs https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis Alpine Kindle (Alpine Linux on Kindle) - https://github.com/schuhumi/alpine_kindle TC2-BBS system on Meshtastic devices (message handling, bbs, mail, + more) - https://github.com/TheCommsChannel/TC2-BBS-mesh Open OSCAR Server (an open-source instant messaging server that makes classic AIM and ICQ clients work again) - https://github.com/mk6i/retro-aim-server/tree/main naim (cli client for AIM/ICQ/IRC) - https://github.com/nmlorg/naim PumpkinOS (a re-implementation of PalmOS that runs on modern architectures) - https://github.com/migueletto/PumpkinOS WeatherStation (software to turning Raspberry Pi into local weather station) - https://github.com/DzikuVx/WeatherStation Browserpad (plaintext in the browser, saved in local storage) - https://github.com/Browserpad/browserpad ThinkPad recovery media (pretty much all ThinkPads) - https://github.com/eggi36/tp-recovery-archive?tab=readme-ov-file Term Everything! (run GUI things in the terminal) - https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything android-foss (list of open source everything for Android) - https://github.com/offa/android-foss?tab=readme-ov-file#-browser Organic Maps (offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists) - https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps OsmAnd (comfortable map viewing and navigation [...] for mobile devices) - https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand LibrePods (AirPors liberated from Apple's ecosystem) - https://github.com/kavishdevar/librepods run-ancient-UNIX (run oldest versions of UNIX on modern hardware) https://github.com/felipenlunkes/run-ancient-unix?tab=readme-ov-file ytrss2 (RSS for YouTube, in the command line!) - https://github.com/coffe/ytrss2 --- ///SDF SDF faq - https://sdf.org/?faq SDF tutorials - https://sdf.org/?tutorials SDF command cheatsheet - http://sdf.org/?tutorials/sdf_specific_commands How to DJ on aNONradio - http://sdf.org/?tutorials/anonradio-dj SDF Deskshots (work/hobby spaces of SDF members) - https://sdf.org/?deskshots SDF git platform - https://git.sdf.org/explore/repos?sort=recentupdate --- ///RANDOM Internet Artifacts (from a map of ARPANET in 1977 to the launch of the iPhone - a collection of relevant Internet happenings since its creation) - https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/ Visualization of a LLM - https://bbycroft.net/llm Nightshade (software to bastardize what AI sees, preventing it from stealing digital artwork) https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/downloads.html AI/LLM User-agents blocking guide - https://robotstxt.com/ai Low-Tech Magazine (the solar-powered website) - https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about Low-Tech Lab (experiments with alternative forms of technology) - https://wiki.lowtechlab.org/wiki/Accueil?page=2 IRC modules (modules and mods for Internet Relay Chat) - https://docs.inspircd.org/3/modules/ Resource for mechanical keyboards/mice - http://deskthority.net/wiki/Main_Page Netflix Codes (find things) - https://www.netflix-codes.com/ VHS Vault (tons of digitized VHS movies) - https://archive.org/details/vhsvault DiscMaster (browse and search vintage computer files from archive.org) - https://discmaster.textfiles.com/ webOS archive (abandonware for webOS) - https://webosarchive.org/ MacIntosh Garden (MacIntosh (and other Apple) abandonware) - https://macintoshgarden.org/ solar.stfn.pl (A small, solar powered website) - https://solar.stfn.pl/en/ Byte, a visual archive (every issue of Byte Magazine visualized) -  https://byte.tsundoku.io DOOM2D (2D platformer, inspired by DOOM) - https://web.doom2d.org/en/ Atari 2600 soundboard - https://www.101soundboards.com/search/atari-2600 V86 (x86 emulator, that's runs in the browser) - https://oses.ioblako.com/new.html FLOPPINUX (embedded Linux on a single floppy disk) - https://krzysztofjankowski.com/floppinux/ LisaGUI (re-creating the Apple Lisa UI in the browser) - https://lisagui.com/ InfiniteMac (a collection of classic Macintosh and NeXT system releases and software, all easily accessible from the comfort of a web browser) https://infinitemac.org writerdeckOS (turn any machine into a writing-only device) - https://writerdeckos.com/# Servers with Personality (projects that turn(ed) small/unconventional devices into Web servers) - https://caolan.uk/links/servers/ Homelab Beginners Guide (tutorial and resources on how to start a homelab) - https://linuxblog.io/home-lab-beginners-guide-hardware/ Aminet (the biggest online repository of Amiga software since 1992) - https://aminet.net/ --- ///READ Netiquette (the do's and dont's of online communication (from 1997)) - http://www.albion.com/netiquette/index.html Weathering software winter - https://100r.co/site/weathering_software_winter.html Tech Independence - https://sive.rs/ti LandChad (site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords by showing them how to setup websites, email servers, chat servers and everything in between) - https://landchad.net/ Daily News Printed on dot Matrix Printer - https://aschmelyun.com/blog/getting-my-daily-news-from-a-dot-matrix-printer/ Bash scripting for beginners - https://linuxconfig.org/bash-scripting-tutorial-for-beginners Generate SSH keys for Raspberry Pi - https://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2019/02/setting-up-ssh-keys-on-the-raspberry-pi/ Raspberry Pi 5 wall arcade - https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-5-powered-wall-arcade-features-a-big-low-res-rgb-led-matrix-display Videogame Easter Eggs Not Found for Years - https://screenrant.com/video-game-hidden-easter-eggs-found/ The PISS Files (late-90's hacking zine) - http://web.textfiles.com/ezines/PISS/ cDc (cultdeadcow) textfiles (browse at your own risk) >:) - https://cultdeadcow.com/cDc_files/ Microship/Winnebiko II (long-range biking while programming) - https://microship.com/winnebiko-ii/ Handwriting your RSS feed - https://everest-pipkin.com/teaching/handmadeRSS There Is No AI Revolution - https://www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-money/ An Early Social un-Network (computing in "them days") - https://paperstack.com/an_early_social_unnetwork/ Site/blog hosted on Beaglebone Black - https://box.matto.nl/beaglebone-black-still-going-strong.html Perl, the first post-modern computer langauge - http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html Building a personal archive of the web, the slow way - https://alexwlchan.net/2025/personal-archive-of-the-web/ The small things Manifesto - https://ajroach42.com/the-small-things-manifesto/ Simple DIY home info center (e-ink display, Pico W - perfect!) - https://www.makerspace-online.com/smart-home-info-center/ The Blogging Process (probably the only accurate, thorough (and clearly experienced) graph of what it IS to blog) - https://web.archive.org/web/20031202024110if_/http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2003/07/30.html#a346 My first transistorised computer: A Crash Course - https://git.sr.ht/~nkali/mv950toy/tree/main/item/docs/crash_course.md?__goaway_challenge=meta-refresh&__goaway_id=e32f97ac783c93dc8ce8b36171311774&__goaway_referer=https%3A%2F%2Ffeedbin.com%2F Torching the Modern Day Library of Alexandria - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/ Connecting a 1980s Pinball Machine to the Internet - https://eli.lipsitz.net/posts/internet-connected-pinball/ xkcd (A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language) - https://xkcd.com/ Bastard Operator from Hell (BofH) - https://bofharhive.com A manifesto of sorts; or, my love letter to the personal website https://aroceu.com/manifesto In praise of links (resources and manifestos on saving links/content from the Web) - https://osteophage.neocities.org/writing/in-praise-of-links A list of manifestos on the renaissance of The Web. Like, THE Web! :)) https://wiki.melonland.net/manifestos ---