Cool Links ~ the small and more personal web

For anyone who reads more than superficially through this blog, it will be clear that I sometimes wander off the path of writing about photography. I am, after all, interested in a lot more than just cameras. And this is a journal, so my thoughts don’t always revolve around one subject.

One of my other interests is the idea of the early web and Web 1.5 ~ the small and personal web that still exists in the shadows of the tech giants running their social media and other platforms. It’s part of the web of old, when life was slower and when going online meant more than just looking for Followers and Likes.

Just like the link lists and link pages on personal home pages from the 90s, here’s my list of cool links to the smaller and lesser known parts of the web (links will be added and subtracted at my whim):

  • Omg.lol ~ A colourful ride into small web services for a super cheap annual price.
  • Indieweb ~ Lots of stuff about the so-called indieweb.
  • Bear Blog ~ A tiny blogging service for the minimally minded.
  • Pika ~ A sweet blogging platform powered by people.
  • micro.blog ~ A combination of federated social media and blogging.
  • Neocities ~ Want to have your own free website and get into some HTML?
  • Nekoweb ~ More free web space!
  • Kagi Small Web ~ Click this link to go to a random site on the small web – powered by Kagi search engine. I set my browser home page to this for fun.
  • Wiby ~ Search like the old days of the world wide web.
  • Public Work ~ A search engine for public domain images.
  • Mataroa ~ A simple blog for the absolute minimalist.
  • Scribbles ~ A modern, clean blogging platform.
  • Smol Pub ~ Your journal on the small net.
  • ooh directory ~ A collection of blogs to surf.
  • ~Tilde Club ~ One humble UNIX computer connecting people together.
  • Mastodon ~ Federated social media that’s not for sale.
  • Pixelfed ~ Federated social media for photos and images.
  • Yay.Boo ~ An easy place to host simple websites.
  • Minifeed ~ A curated blog reader and search engine.
  • Marginalia Search ~ Find lost old websites and non-commercial web content.
  • Reocities ~ A visual archive of Geocities sites.
  • Oocities ~ Another Geocities archive.