⁂ Finds from the stars

Welcome to my emporium of links! Here you will find many websites that I think are cool, useful, whimsical, or interesting that I’d like to share with everyone! Many of them are websites I grew up with, while others were found by Pearlnight while she surfed the indie web. I’ve included many portfolio sites of artists I like, archives of historical materials, bizarre personal pages from Geocities and Angelfire, silly pictures, projects both ongoing and forgotten, nature photos, and many other strange and interesting things.

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Disclaimer

Immediate disqualifications for being included in the link emporium include the following:

1. Obvious Wordpress, Blogspot, or Wix sites.: I am more interested in sharing independent websites than things from blogging platforms.
2. Pop-ups about adblock, cookies, logins or newsletters: They are obnoxious and an invasion of privacy. Nobody needs to harvest my data while I’m looking at their site and I just want to see the thing, not make more accounts!
3. References to modern social-media culture and/or politics.: It sucks, we already know. If you want articles on modern internet stuff, go look at Pearlnight’s links.
4. Social media pages: Including giant Twitter feeds embedded in the middle of your website!

Any websites containing outdated values or ideas are presented as curious little pieces of history for you to point and laugh at. If any of these sites contain stupid opinions, I do not endorse them! I only have GOOD opinions. Thank you.

Cool Sites

The links!
Name	Blurb
22,000 Animated Gifs	The scraped out contents of an old CD.
3D Plant Studio	Some 3D models of plants from 1998.
Abandoned Rails	An archive of abandoned railway tracks in the United States.
Adler Archive of Underground Comix	An archive of underground comix.
After Dark Screensavers in CSS	CSS recreations of old Mac screensavers.
Almost Pong	Pong with a twist.
The Amazing Art of the Video Game Marquee	An article showcasing the marquees from an arcade in Brookfield, Illinois.
Ambient Garden	Listen to ambient in a trippy landscape.
American Birding Association	An American birding nonprofit.
Amiga Graphics Archive	HD graphics from the 1985 Amiga computer.
Ancient Web Browsers	An archive of the earliest web browsers.
Archive.95	An archive of rare CD-Roms.
Archives.Design	A collection of graphic design texts from the Internet Archive.
Art Institute of Chicago Collection	The AIC's digitized collection.
ASCII Express	Old Apple warez in a terminal aesthetic.
Astronomy Picture of the Day	Daily pictures of space.
The Avatar Archive	One of the first furry archives.
Aves de Chile	A site on Chilean birds.
The Barney Fun Page	Killing Barney the Dinosaur since 1991.
Bear Blog	A tiny blog engine.
Betty's Graphics	My favorite site for old graphics.
Birds as Art	The portfolio of bird photographer Arthur Morris.
Bookscans	A gallery of old book cover scans.
The Busy Beaver Button Museum	Chicago's button museum.
BUTCH: Not Like the Other Girls	Photos dedicated to my fellow butches.
Byte Cellar	A website all about vintage computers.
Cake Wrecks	Hilariously awful cakes since 2008.
Cameron's World	A tribute to 90s websites.
Catalogs & Wishbooks	Scans of old american christmas catalogs.
Catalogue of Life	A huge list of all the world's species.
The Centurian Page	A French 3D-model artist.
Chicken Photos	Photos of chickens and other things.
The Circle of the Dragon	An old dragon mythology encyclopedia.
Creative Commons Search Portal	Search for public-domain material.
Curlie	An old search-engine.
Cyber Garden	Tell people about your stuff by planting trippy 3D flowers.
Data Packrat's Archive	A homemade furry archive.
Death Cult of Fun	The Heaven's Gate page is so passé.
Default Mac wallpapers in 5k	A gallery of modern macintosh wallpapers.
Dennis Wojtkiewicz	Trippy photorealistic paintings of fruits and flowers.
Digital Blasphemy	A 3D artist that's been going since the 90s.
Digital Collections - GLBT Historical Society	An archive of LGBTQ+ material.
Digital Collections - NYPL	The New York Public Library digitized collection.
Digital Commonwealth	An archive of digitized material from Massachusetts.
Digital Library of Illinois	An archive of digitized material from Illinois.
Digital Transgender Archive	A digitzed archive of late 20th century transgender texts..
Dither Paint	A Mac Paint simulator.
Doomsday Scoreboard	Dubious doomsdays and alleged apocalypses.
DPLA (Digital Public Library of America)	An archive of digitized material from across America.
Ed Repka	The king of thrash metal album art.
Enchanted Learning	An old educational site with lots of material.
Encyclopedia Metallum	An encyclopedia of metal I grew up with.
Erowid	The premier page on psychoactive drugs.
Euro Bird Portal	A site that tracks the migration patterns of european birds.
Feeding America - Find Your Local Food Bank	A tool that shows you find nearby food banks.
Five Geek Social Fallacies	Common mistakes nerds make.
Fonts in Use	A gallery of images and the corresponding fonts in them.
Food Timeline	A timeline of food history.
Fractal Garden	Cool fractals to stare at when you're high.
Furry Peace	A furry mission statement of peace.
Furry Times Downloads	An archive of underground furry zines.
Geocities Institute	A website chronicling the preservation of Geocities.
Getty Virtual Library	Getty's digitized collection.
Goldenwolfen	An artist I loved as a tween.
Goldfishies	3D goldfish.
Great Farts of Literature	A long-winded list.
Grey Rainbow Christmas Cards	An artist's lifelong tradition of drawing christmas cards for their family.
GUIdebook Gallery	A gallery of graphic user interfaces.
Have a Good Today	Janky glitter gifs to start your day.
Hekate's Background Archive	A neocities-based background repository.
Hellnet's 88x31 Archive	An archive of 88x31 buttons.
History of the Web	A timeline of the internet.
Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group	A parodic taxonomy site on phylum Plasticae.
Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections	The University of Illinois' digitized newspaper collection.
Images \| ESA/Hubble	Hubble's image archive.
The Indie Web Manifesto	A prophetic essay about the corporate web.
Interactive AIDS Quilt	An online AIDS quilt.
Internet Speculative Fiction Database	A database of speculative fiction.
Invisible History Digital Collections	A digitized collection of LGBT texts from the American south.
Isopod.site	A site about isopods.
James WEBB Telescope	It can see really far into space.
Jean Mallard	A Neo-Fauvist artist.
Jess Findlay Photography	An american photographer with a lot of owl pictures.
The Jim Seelen Motel Images Collection	There's a whole organization for this!
Jim Woodring	The creator of the surrealistic "Frank" comix.
JS Paint	An MS Paint simulator.
Kid Pix	A javascript port of Kidpix.
L'Enciclopedia della Pasta	A visual guide to pasta.
Lars Krutak	The page of a longtime tattoo anthropologist.
Lava Library	A site about the history of lava lamps.
Life Under the Ice	A virtual exhibition of tiny antarctic life-forms.
LILEKS	A site about vintage americana.
Linden Frederick	A Maine-based landscape painter.
The Living Image	A vintage camera museum from 2000.
Lost and Found Nature	A website about rediscovered animals.
Love Hulten	A swedish woodworker.
Luke Collins Photography	A Door-County based photographer.
Mac OS 9 Wallpapers in 5K Resolution	A gallery of old macintosh wallpapers.
Macaulay Library	An expansive database of natural history media.
The Marginalian	A blog about random artistic things.
Mazeguy Smilies	An archive of ancient smilies.
Mcbroken	Check if your local McDonalds' ice-cream machine is broken.
Mccall Studios	An artist who did huge paintings for NASA.
Melissa Groo Photography	An american wildlife photographer.
Michael Mccumber	An American landscape photographer.
Michael Whelan	A prolific fantasy artist.
Modern Illustration	A small collection of midcentury art.
Mullvad VPN	The VPN I use.
Museum of Bad Art	Boston's premier art museum.
Mushroom Color Atlas	A mushroom color list.
Mushroom Expert	A non-edible guide to mushrooms.
Music of Nature	Assorted binaural soundscapes of nature sounds.
My Physics Lab	Something I like playing with.
Native Land	A map of historical Indigenous territories.
Native Languages of the Americas	A guide to Indigenous american languages.
Nice Rocks	Some cool rocks.
Old Computers	The personal site of a vintage computer collector.
OnioType Font	A font made from real chopped onions.
OutHistory	An organisation for historical LGBTQ+ research.
Owls in Towels	A gallery of burrit-owls.
404 Page Found	A gallery of 90s' websites.
Partners in Flight databases	Ecological databases on American birds.
The Peculiar Manacle	A gallery of 60s' and 70s' graphic design.
The Public Domain Review	An exhibit of public-domain material.
Pysanky Patterns	I like the eggies.
Queer Digital	An archive of pre-2010 LGBTQ digital spaces online.
Remoji	A browser toy with random pixel gifs.
The Retro Web	An archive of hardware.
Rob Evans Art	A realist painter of dark, eerie scenes.
Roger Dean	Did a lot of album covers for Yes.
Roomstyler	An in-browser tool to create 3D rooms.
Rotating Sandwiches	Rotating Sandwiches.
Science Fiction Movie Lettering	Various logos from Sci-Fi movies.
Searching for Birds	An article about how birds show up in online search statistics.
Seedfinder	A database for weed.
The Shadowlands	A 30-year old site about cryptozoology.
Shroomery	The premier site on Psilocybin.
Sit in Shade	Helps you not get heatstroke when you're travelling.
Space Jam	Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam.
Spam.budwin.net	A site for spam.
Starring the Computer	A database of computers in movies.
Stickertop Art	A gallery of stickerbombed laptops.
SystemTalk	Articles on Macintosh computers.
Texture Town	A modern archive of tile backgrounds.
Tim Laman Photography	A wildlife photographer that specialises in nature in Borneo.
Toaster Central	A vendor of vintage toasters and waffle irons.
Tom Lea	The creator of the iconic "The Two-Thousand Yard Stare" painting.
Tornado Archive	A data visualization for tornadoes.
Toy Animal Wiki	A wiki of animal toys.
Ugly Gerry	A font made of gerrymandered congressional districts.
The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack	A downloadable archive of DOS-era computer fonts.
Upset Dev	A private alternative to Google Fonts.
Usenet Archives	An archive of Usenet groups.
Vila's Rare & Obscure Furry Archive	An archive of rare old furry art.
Visual AIDS	A gallery of AIDS-themed artwork.
Vixen Controlled Archives	An archive of VCL.
Web Badges World	An archive of old web badges.
Web Design Museum	As it says on the tin.
Web Gallery of Art	A fine art gallery from 1996.
WebGL Fluid Simulator	Some cool fluids.
Websites from Hell	A gallery of eye-searing abominations.
Werner's Mineralogy	A recreation of an early 1800s' mineralogy guidebook.
Werner's Nomenclature of Colours	A recreation of a 1821 color guidebook.
Wikiart - John Atkinson Grimshaw	A british romantic painter.
Wikibound	An encyclopedia of Earthbound.
Win Classic	An in-browser theme designer for Windows 95.
Winamp Skin Museum	An archive of Winamp skins.
WinWorld PC	An archive of old software.
Yerf Historical Archive	An archive of Yerf.
You Have Not Died of Dysentery	Can you get through the Oregon Trail without shitting yourself?
Yume Wiki	An encyclopedia of Yume Nikki.

The Http Exhibit

The links!
Name	Blurb
Ain't No Way To Go	A 2006 website about nasty, sticky ends.
American Cheese	Because swiss cheese is for commies.
AOL Lamp	A lamp made of AOL cds.
Antique Poison Bottle Collector	The ghosts of victorian housewives love this.
Bikini Atoll	A site for the long-suffering pacific island.
Birds in the Wild	A quebec-based bird photographer.
Bob Heffner's "Dinosaurs Attack!" Homepage	Scans of "Dinosaurs Attack!" cards.
Carney Castle	He was my dermatologist!
CD Lamp	Different guy explains how he made one.
cd.textfiles.com	An archive of 90s 3D models.
Chakats	An intro to the classic furry creation.
Chaos Designs	A well-preserved assets site.
Characterization of Organic Illumination Systems	The thrilling sequel to the frog-battery.
City of the Silent	An encyclopedia of death.
Dark Lyrics	Large library of metal lyrics.
Darwin Awards	The original in stupid deaths.
Diabella Loves Cats	A lovingly cheesy cat website.
Diner City	A map of american diners.
Dole/Kemp '96	Lorem Ipsum doodoofart.
Eccentric America	This site really likes balls.
Embroidery Troubleshooting Page	Forgot to close its tags.
Eye of the Argon	It's so bad that people would read it at conventions.
Film Wizards	A defunct peddler of odd films.
Final Meals	Texas' final fry-ups.
Free Speech	The origin of those blue ribbon buttons.
Fun with Grapes: A Case Study	A science experiment.
Furby Autopsy	How to perform an autopsy on your furby.
Furnation	One of the largest communities of its time.
Garlic.com's Marijuana Art	90s' era photo-editing, starring weed.
Glass Museum On Line	Raise a glass to this glass.
Grandpa's Ganja Pad	Mm! Weed! Just like grampa used to make!
Greg Lasley Nature Photography	An extensive gallery of nature photos.
Heaveno	Local religious wacko thinks "hello" is satanic.
Here be Dragons	A dragon-themed relic from 1997.
High Times	Archives of the well-known weed magazine.
Humboldt's Psychedelic Mazes	Some really hard mazes.
How Jell-o Killed the Dinosaurs	How could jell-o do this?!
Hummingbirds.net	Some little birds.
Ian Golder's Mac n' Cheese	A gallery for generic Mac n' Cheese boxes.
Inquisition	A stylised site about torture.
In Search of the Perfect Pork Martini	Insane bastard makes unholy abomination.
Joe Coleman	An outsider artist for all sorts of weird.
KookyChow	Weird food.
Kyoht.com	A teenage Lutz favorite.
Living Gold Press	A gallery of fading advertisements.
Malathar's World	The source of all those cute dragon gifs.
Mike Umscheid Photography	An all-around nature photographer.
Motel Americana	Stories about american roadsides.
Mr T Ate my Balls	Somehow hosted on a university page.
My Sillke's Elevator Fun	Fun things to do in an elevator.
My Smiley	A site about old smilies.
Out West	An On-The-Road Newspaper from 1987 to 2000.
Poop Pals	They're fat as fuck.
Punishment Library	Scrapings from public domain torture texts.
Resources on Web Style	A 1996 dos and don'ts list for HTML.
Rictor Morton	Essays from a LGBTQ+ historian.
Roadside America	Insane stuff you can see on the freeway.
Roadside Peek	More insane stuff you can see on the freeway.
Robert Royse's Bird Photography Pages	An ohio-based bird photographer.
Ro-Gay Recipes	Recipes from a gay AOL chatroom.
SAVE PLUTO NOW!!!	Pluto is still the planet of my heart.
Save the Dragons	A painfully earnest website about just that.
Silver Spoon Museum	The biggest list of spoons you've ever seen.
Soup Song	See its "Soup goes to the movies" page.
Spork	A shrine to Sporks.
Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow Torches	What could possibly go wrong?
Taquitos.net	Shaggy's favorite website.
Television Watcher's Menu List	Don't forget your fuit drinks!
Teresco's Road Signs	I'm too high to appreciate this right now.
The Bumper Sticker Compodeium	Various 90s' bumper stickers.
The Dialog Box Web site	Fake dialog boxes before fake dialog boxes.
The Electric Chair	Its pictures might shock you.
The Erection Collection	Beanie boners.
The Evil Overlord List	I used this as writing advice when I was 13.
The High Energy Weapons Archive	A very academic site on nukes.
The Museum of Burnt Food	My grandma would love this.
The Official French Fry Page	A site from 2000 on the joys of french fries.
The Official Sandwich Homepage	Shaggy's other favorite website.
The Old Robots	A gallery of old robot toys.
The Payphone Museum	A gallery of old payphone booths.
The Pulling Report	An argument against moms against stuff.
The Toaster Museum Foundation	An exhibit of old toasters.
The Useless Pages	Not a Portal of any Evil.
The World's Largest Catsup Bottle	"Official Web Site and Fan Club".
Toilet Tea Leaves	Doodoo divination.
Topher's Breakfast Cereal Character Guide	A gallery of old american cereal mascots.
Trepan	A hole in the wall about holes in heads.
Turd Twisters	Poopy-time fun shapes.
Typewriter.net	A site about typewriters.
Under Construction	An archive of "Under Construction" graphics.
What's in my Desk Drawer	He just has to tell you.

The Internet Archive lot

The links!
Name	Blurb
1997 Expert Catalog	A corny catalog for home-office software.
Animation Factory Essential Collection	Four discs of janky 3D-animated goodness.
Anthropomorphics Archive	Furry comics, zines and convention fliers.
Cursormania Archive	A full scrape of Cursormania.
Gifcities	Archive.org's gif repository.
GIFs Galore Archive	Scrapings from a GIFs Galore CD.
My Digital Bookshelf	Lots of scanned books. Check out the Computer Graphics World series.
Some Windows Wallpapers	Original files for a few Windows assets.
The Gay Pornographer's Computer	Gay porn reviews from a thrifted PC.
The Mad Robot	Scans of old fantasy and science-fiction magazines.
The Magic of MIDI V1	The soundtrack for my funeral.
Witches and Wizards Clipart (1999)	Ancient clipart of magical stuff.

Hall of Fame

The links!
Name	Blurb
	A neocities site for old web graphics. Out of all the repositories I've seen, this one feels the most authentic. It just shows you what there is, no bells or whistles. Very useful for designing old-school websites if you don't like Gifcities.
	A classic website for all things metal, both old school and new school. Stuffed to the brim with album reviews, band information, biographies, song lyrics, and discussion. The design has not changed whatsoever since I was 13 years old in 2006. Very nostalgic for me because I read it all the time back in the day and I found so many great albums on it!
	A browser-based 3d modeling app that allows you to create interior spaces using premade drag-and-drop assets. You can take photos of the designs from every angle and export them, so it's extremely useful for perspective drawing. I've designed my characters' entire houses with them. It has been a godsend for my process.
	I discovered this website when I was a tween, aka much too young to be looking at its contents, and it enthralled me. I'd been drawing anthros since I could hold a pencil, but didn't know that furries existed. I spent entire afternoons trawling through the artist archives and took so much influence from it.