Hello Web Directory!

How's the lack of standards compliance feel?

Search And Web Directories

• Marginalia Search - A search engine that returns pages that don't suck.
• The WWW Virtual Library. - The oldest still-running web directory.
• Neocities Districts

Software

• EMACS, the best text editor in the world.
• Firefox. All web browsers suck, this one sucks the least.
• The Tor Browser - A browser designed to be used over the Tor network. Some of the best anonymous browsing you can get.

Websites That Don't Suck

• Neocities, a website hosting handmade internet with no ads.
• Cockeyed.com, a website for pranks and things.
• The Gallery Of Regretable Food
• Make Frontend Shit Again
• Museum of Bad Art - Because bad art is good.
• The Personal Homepage Of Everest Pipkin - An artist we greatly admire, who values good internet.
• QZAP Queer Zine Archive. Zines!

Weird Shit From The Old Internet

• Church of the Subgenius
• Heaven's Gate
• Time Cube (Archived) (Alternate restoration here.)
• Church of the Flying Spagetti Monster
• Principia Discordia
• After The Rapture Pet Care
• Banned Books and Conspiracy Theories - Hosted on a raw FTP server, as is right and proper.
• TempleOS - The Temple Operating System
• The Fifth Nail Exposed - The personal blog of serial killer Joseph E. Duncan III

Link Aggregators

• BoingBoing - The homepage of Cory Doctorow.

Copyright Resistance

• Library Genesis. You can download almost any book for free here.
  Mirrors:
  • libgen.rs
  • library.lol
  • libgen.is
  • libgen.st
• Sci-Hub. Download almost any academic paper for free. Mirrors:
  • sci-hub.st
• IPFS, the Interplanetary File System. Censorship-resistant decentralized file storage.
• Wikipedia: Comparison of Bittorrent sites. Useful for finding currently active trackers.

Math

• A Neighborhood Of Infinity, Haskell-focused blog with odd software.

Hacker Shit

• Hack This Site - Learn web security with real exploit puzzles!
• Richard Stallman's Homepage. Creator of EMACS, and general open-source force of nature.

Webcomics

Directories

Individual Comics

• Keenspot - Host for many comics back in the day, now much smaller.
• Ozy and Millie - This was one of our favorite comics growing up, first comic available here.
• Dana Simpson would later go on to create Phoebe and Her Unicorn
• Newshounds
• Chopping Block
• Kevin and Kell - One of the first webcomics I read.
• Sluggy Freelance - Long running, also one of the first comics we ever read.
• GPF Comics (First comic link here.)
• A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversable
• The Perry Bible Fellowship
• Sexy Losers (NSFW)
• Get Your War On
• Sinfest (First comic link here.)
• Oglaf (NSFW) (You may know this from this comic.
• Rob & Elliot - First comic here.
• 1/0
• Gunnerkrieg Court - A classic!
• Dan & Mab's Furry Adventures - Hugely influential to the early webcomic scene.
• A Softer World
• Kit & Kay Boodle (NSFW) - Is it a good comic? No. Do I love it? Yes.
• Suicide For Hire - Also bad, but also one I liked reading for the "edginess".
• Achewood - First strip here.
• Amazing Super Powers
• The Class Menagerie
• Dex Lives
• Garfield Minus Garfield
• Nedroid Picture Diary
• Dinosaur Comics
• The Last Halloween - Abby Howard is a horror genius.
• Bob the Angry Flower - Man this used to be everywhere.
• The Book Of Biff
• Boomer Express
• Boy Meets Boy
• Boxjam's Doodle - The past few comics are about how no one reads it. Hah.

Datasets

• AOL Search Data
• Academic Torrents - See a dataset somewhere? It can probably be downloaded here.

Gaming

• The Interactive Fiction Database - Browse through thousands of text adventures, all downloadable for free!
• Sensei's Library - Resources for the game of Go

Bad Art

• Ain't No Sunshine - A webcomic made out of pictures of shit. Found while researching the webcomics list, and had to share.

Personal Pages

Funny Things

• FuckIt.js - The Original Javascript Error Steamroller
• www.1997toyotatacomawaterpumpgasket.com

Cute Things

Music

News

• "Everything is bad, all the time!"

Science

• United Nuclear - Sells random stuff, like huge neodynium magnets and spinthariscopes!

Food

• Tarla Dalal - A bunch of recipes for Indian food. Comprehensive, few ads.

Miscellaneous

• All The Tropes - A fork of TVTropes, with much less site bullshit.
• Koalas To The Max - A calming little site: Uncover a picture of a Koala made of dots.
• Newgrounds - Still around.
• Floppy Swop - Anything that fits on a floppy disk.
• Lord of the Peeps
• GifCities - Search through the Geocities GIF archive
• Totse
• Apple Rankings - Some guy ranked a bunch of apples. It's great. Go eat an apple.

Things We've Heard Of And Seem Useful But Can't Personally Vouch For

• Cryptpad - An encrypted collaboration suite. Web 2.0-y.
• Proton Mail - Encrypted email. Useful if you're looking to replace Gmail, etc.