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Linus Åkesson’s personal site mixes C64 demos, chip music, hardware projects, programming, interactive fiction and downloadable experiments into a living technical homepage that is still active in 2026.
Eric Isaacson's A86/A386 and D86/D386 pages preserve a complete commercial x86 assembler and debugger ecosystem built for DOS and early Windows, including downloads, source libraries, Win32 examples, and support for processors from the 8088 through the Pentium III and Athlon.
Canadian Mind Products mixes Java programming, computer advice, software tools, environmental writing, essays, quotations, and personal opinion into one enormous hand-built website.
Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder's Big Ball of Mud essay gave a name to the sprawling, improvised software architecture that teams publicly deny and privately maintain every day.
Beej's Internet Pizza Server began as a 1993 email experiment and became a 1994 Web service that generated custom pizza images, complete with bizarre toppings, C code, MIME support, and a manifesto against taking the commercial Internet too seriously.
Greg A. Woods's personal homepage preserves decades of UNIX systems work, programming opinions, old hardware, anti-spam material, networking references, free software, and unapologetically personal Web design.
A 1997 programmer joke turned Grady Booch's object-oriented modeling language into a church, complete with inheritance, superclasses, and a Booch Bible.
Davar.net began in 1997 as a personal information garden covering programming, Go, Zen, quotations, UNIX, mainframes, Russian literature, humor, and whatever else its creator wanted close at hand.
Dave Baum's personal site became a trailhead for Not Quite C, the widely used C-like language that gave early LEGO Mindstorms builders more control over the RCX.
Ric and Paula Werme's sprawling family homepage mixes weather, programming, ARPANET memories, bicycle trips, legal work, data visualization, snow records, and personal history into one gloriously unoptimized website.
Chris Covell's long-running site is a dense personal archive of retro-console programming, hardware research, translations, scans, development history, and experiments that often began with the question: is that old technical claim actually true?
Pekka Väänänen's 2014 technical report explains how he modified Quake to draw its 3D world as line art on an XY oscilloscope, using stereo audio output as the display signal.
ROT8000 takes the old ROT13 idea and extends the joke across most of Unicode's Basic Multilingual Plane, creating a reversible spoiler-hiding transform that began as a digital-art project and later escaped into hacker culture.
A surviving GeoCities mirror of the QP7 Programming Page preserves old-school tutorials for C++, Visual Basic, QBASIC, and Pascal—the kind of practical coding material people once learned from one personal site at a time.
Richard R. Eckert's Binghamton University pages preserve the old academic-Web pattern: a professor homepage, résumé, course notes, examples, and teaching material living directly on a university server instead of behind a learning-management system.
A surviving FreeServers QuickBASIC site preserves the era when programming tutorials, source listings, utilities, and hobby projects lived on hand-built personal pages.
EvanMiller.org became a durable technical notebook for programmers, with practical statistics, A/B testing, ranking algorithms, open-source tools, and essays that kept attracting links for years.
The Game Boy Development Forum, launched in 2008, collected tools, hardware documentation, tutorials, homebrew projects, and hard-won advice for people still programming Nintendo's old handhelds.
David Richardson's Neocomputer project dissected the Atari 2600 version of E.T., explained its notorious collision and difficulty problems, and produced a patched ROM that showed what a few targeted fixes could change.
Ruud Helderman's tutorial teaches the structure of a text adventure by building one in C, moving from a tiny main loop through locations, objects, inventory, passages, conditions and a parser.