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The Wererat's Lair is a hand-coded rat, gaming, and personal site dating back to the 1990s, with pet-care material, galleries, MIDI, JavaScript tutorials, campaign journals, and a deliberately preserved mid-1990s visual style.
Notepad.org is a deadpan monument to hand-coded HTML, presenting Windows Notepad as a world-class Web authoring tool with perfect standards support, tiny memory use, and compatibility with formats not yet invented.
J. Geoff Malta's 1997 parody homepage deliberately stuffed itself with the design habits of the early Web—and then preserved years of emails from visitors who missed the joke.
Parimal Satyal's 2017 essay measured how tracking, third parties, page weight, and closed platforms were changing the Web, then argued for something simpler and more respectful.
Betty's Graphics is a massive Neocities archive of GIFs, backgrounds, buttons, objects, characters, and other visual debris from the era when personal websites were expected to look personal.
An old /textures/ directory on theJANG.com leads into Bamidele O. Shangobunmi's much larger surviving record of hand-coded Web design, early UI work, Ask Jeeves, and personal sites dating back to the 1990s.
Deadword preserves much of Word Magazine's 1995-1998 run, including the strange experimental interfaces, writing, games, multimedia, and community work of one of the earliest major online magazines.
Michael Constantine Dimopoulos published a practical chicken-farming guide in 2021 using ASCII art, plain text, and a deliberately old-school Web style that proves simple publishing never stopped working.
Arkm's World uses a tiny Neocities homepage as an atmospheric narrative space, proving that a website can make clicking through pages part of the story itself.
2Bit is a Neocities personal site built around a deliberately tiny visual palette, Game Boy-era graphics, retro hardware, game reviews, memes, Easter eggs, and the stubborn idea that technical limitation can be a design feature.
Matt Kane's modern homepage deliberately recreates a 1990 HyperCard stack with period-inspired icons and fonts while running on Astro with zero client-side JavaScript.
Bass Drop's Club began in 2024, but its guestbook, handmade games, crochet pages, status boxes, and unapologetically personal navigation revive the part of the web that platforms flattened out.
Kitty Roach's PageWorks is a surviving 1996-era workshop full of animated GIFs, buttons, holiday graphics, web-art tutorials, licensing notes, and advice for building a page when 250 colors still sounded like a specification.
Big Beautiful Backgrounds survives as a relic of the period when building a homepage often began with choosing a tiny repeating texture, and free graphics directories acted as the design infrastructure of the personal Web.
Maciej Ceglowski's 2015 Website Obesity Crisis talk attacked page bloat with measurements, jokes and an argument that text pages should not outweigh Russian novels.
A Confused Dragon uses Neocities as a hand-built pixel-art home full of Windows-era visual language, animated artwork, personal navigation, and downloadable experiments.
The Evergreen manifesto and its surrounding handmade-web culture argue for personal sites, guestbooks, webrings, shrines and messy creative ownership instead of platform-controlled identity.