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Last updated: September 3, 2021
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Reply by cassadaga

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i spent wayyyy too long going through https://peelopaalu.neocities.org/  thankyou for this gem :')


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Reply by kdarox489

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Wow thank you for sharing


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Reply by Rissi

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Thank you so much! This is exactlty how I FOUND SpaceHey in the first place, on the look for obscure sites lol.


Modern social media is, quite frankly, boring and depressing and stale. :/ 
Sure, I can scroll through TikTok and Twitter for hours, but at what cost? My blood pressure?? 

I miss when we could separate our "online life" and "real life", yk? I feel almost bad for gen z, because like... they'll never know how fun the internet used to be, if that makes sense? Not that modern stuff isn't fun, but... oh well, TLDR THANK YOU!


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Reply by Isaacool

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webpagelist.com is made by An himself!


My personal favorite site is called Manyland and its very underrated.


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Reply by Shadow Bliss

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It sounds weird but looking at those lists made me realize for how big the internet is...people don't use it. They overwork the social media aspects of it (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube) only for SO MUCH of the appeal to completely fly under the radar.

Some of that I found interesting, some of it was just random shit that, even by random shit standards, was complete shit. I also encountered some fascist shit on those sites which...nearly had me running back to those 4 I just mentioned with my arms outstretched (I'm not going to...I prefer SpaceHey to ANY of those social media sites - they perpetuate that mentality by algorithm).

I also want to share two of my own personal sites that I use. If you're still using Google...try Ecosia instead. Its a search engine where for every 45 searches you make, a tree is planted in a place that needs it. Yes, this is real. Yes, it works. I have been using it for about a year and a half by now and I can't actually tell the difference between the two (in terms of how simple it is to search and find - thats all I mean). So...why not change from Google?

The other is a lot more niché but in the mid 1990s, David Bowie and Brian Eno worked together on an album called Outside and to get ideas for song lyrics, Bowie would usually cut up words and sentences, changing the meaning and thus "that'd be interesting for a song." For that album, he went from doing it with newspaper and magazines to a website called the Verbasizer. Yes, Bowie made one of the first word randomizers on the internet. The original no longer exists but a fan recreation of it does. What you would use this for, I don't know, however use it you can (also, you get no prizes for successfully guessing what my favourite David Bowie album is).


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Reply by Juan

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Odysee, is by far the best alternative to YouTube I've found, you earn in LBRY (a cryptocurrency) you don't get demonetized for saying words like "porn" "violence" and you only get banned for actually doing illegal stuff like doxxing, CP, uploading copyrighted material and stuff that's common sense: https://odysee.com/


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Reply by Retsi

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i think i love you for posting these


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Reply by V Holeček Art

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its not a neocities site, but I do maintain my own website for my artwork



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Reply by xXSandra_SandstormXx

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Oh this is all very interesting! I can’t wait to look


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Reply by Em0princess666

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Reply by corentin

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I created this a few weeks ago, it's a list of my bookmarks (cool websites, interesting articles).
You might find some cool webpages through it too :)


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Reply by bunny

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thank you. thank god. This will help me through the rest of this week. 


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Reply by Ceilidh Murphy

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These are great, thanks!


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Reply by David V. Kimball

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Neat list of websites, thanks for sharing!


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Reply by maddie

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thnks for the list!!! i think this was my fav website from exploring through the pages :3


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Reply by Jesse

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I love this website so much fuck yeh


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Reply by Elliott

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Those are some great links–thanks for sharing! I love all the work Kicks Condor has been doing-href.cool is sweet and inspired me to create a directory of handmade websites at gossipsweb.net.


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Reply by °˖✧ cinni ✧˖°

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i recently started a link directory for cute pixel sites from the early 00's era web :-3 i plan on adding more links in the future for sure! check out the °˖✧::the ichigo directory::✧˖°


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Reply by ifdproductions

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this site was made with love (and cat hair, probably) Ilove that at the end.


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Reply by Ice Cube Productions

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Nice Websites
But the only thing I wanna search for is older alternatives to modern websites like Google
And Some interesting websites like old computers or anything related to technology ('cause I like tech)


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Reply by ifdproductions

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storyfire.com is weird its supposed to be a youtube competitor without tracking and filtering  


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Reply by NosyCat

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I keep forgetting about it (and I'm not sure it's 100% on-topic here), but there's the big list of small web services maintained by Alex Wennerberg of flounder.online fame. Hope this helps!


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Reply by joy <3

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tysm for this!!! <3


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Reply by Glitter Heart

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Thanks so much for sharing! I’ll check them all out! 💖💖


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Reply by Euphoric Monotony

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https://wiby.me/

is a search engine for this kind of stuff


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Reply by pseudoScribe

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never thought i'd come across a list of niche websites leading me to more niche websites. not complaining! tysm for sharing! (*^^*)♡


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Reply by Adelaide Charity

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Ei kip it cool sites.. Dolliecrave.com for grapikcomment; vcd.com vampiksites


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Reply by Ale ☆

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Thank you


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Reply by Jin

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AHHHH THANKS I NEEDED THIS


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Reply by NosyCat

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Found another couple of them:

  • 32-bit Cafe is an online community that also publishes guides and other resources
  • The Small Web is more of an introduction to the topic, with motivations, advice and pointers

They don't look like much at first, but I spent a surprising amount of time on both sites last evening. Hope this helps.


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Reply by JUDE!

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Found another one! It's an alternative search engine that helps you find old obscure websites

https://search.marginalia.nu/


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Reply by KritKat

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thank you!


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Reply by Str4wb3rrybread 🍓 :D

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I'm not sure anyone else has already heard about this site, but https://www.my00stv.com is super cool (along with it's sister sites)!


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Reply by Honkloid

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https://www.incognitube.com/ and https://wiby.me/ seem pretty good for finding weird old stuff :3


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Reply by 21th Century Girl

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i love you and thanks for the recommendations!! 


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Reply by SKL

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here's my site!! it's currently a personal site with a bunch of stuff on it but i've had people tell me they really enjoy what's there :]


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Reply by blueboy0309

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These are gold im obsessed


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Reply by Sparkz

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I've got a directory that I've been maintaining for a few years here though it's slowed down some ^^


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Reply by David V. Kimball

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Solid list. Thanks for all of the resources you share!


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Reply by Matthew andrew

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Hello do you need an expert to write Terms and conditions and privacy policy  writer for your website kindly message me.


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Reply by Happy_Dark_Relem

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These link sites are like google but for weird people XD


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Reply by Crow Oleander

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This is so cool. Thank you :).


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Reply by ya boi eric

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Unless I missed it, I don't see Useful Interweb listed, so I'm just going to add it here. I have this as my home page and it updated daily until it abruptly stopped in April.


https://usefulinterweb.com/


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Reply by apple!

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oh my gosh thank you!!!!! your doing us all a lovely favor!!!! <3


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Reply by Michael

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Thank you!


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Reply by Keeze

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wow! this is a great find! I like to go webhiking in the good places like this group on spacehey so this is really helpful! safe trvels!



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