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It is (at the time of last update) 2021. We no longer need traverse the web link by link. The search engine of your choice will drop you off at any of the giants of information and fun.
But here's some nooks and crannies that your searches may not readily bring you to.

FRIENDS & ASSOCIATES

Felinium - AJ - Riley - Royalninja - Seymour - Eddie - Randomdude - OK Glass - Panic

GOOD SITES ON NEOCITIES

- - - - - - - - - - - - - Localfool - Punk/Hardcore Zines - This Old Recliner - Town -

COOL STUFF AROUND THE WEB...

MEDIA

• 17776 (A story about space travel and what football will look like in the future, by Jon Bois. See also the sequel, 20020)
• AmateurScience (DIY science experiments & thoughts for grown-ups. Still being updated as of 2020, I swear.)
• Awful Hospital (A bodyhorrorcomedy webcomic.)
• Bogleech Creepypasta Archive (User submitted short-form horror.)
• PDFdrive (Find ebooks free)
• The SCP Foundation (Also user submitted short form horror, but in a... different way.)
• Quiet Please (Archived episodes and scripts of my favorite old-time radio show.)
• QNTM (Fiction & essays about antimemetics, time, coding, and other cool things.)
• XKCD (Stick figure STEM humor by Randall Munroe. See also What If?)

GAMES

• IFDB (The Interactive Fiction Database. LOTS of very cool text adventure games, largely free.)
• Internet Archive's DOS game library (Play classic MS-DOS games )
• Monster Breeder (A mostly-text browser game of crossbred monsters and horrible puns.)
• OFF (Downloads of the iconic RPGmaker game of world-purification in multiple languages.)
• Ryan Veeder's website (My favorite writer of and podcaster about text adventures.)
• Yume Nikki (Steam page for the surreal dreamscape that launched a thousand RPGmaker spinoffs.)
• See also: my old interactive fiction reccommendations page.

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• HORG (The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group.)

USEFUL STUFF AROUND THE WEB...

SOFTWARE I USE

• Audacity (A simple, free, open source audio editing/recording software)
• Krita (A free, open source art program with great brushes, stabilizers, and scripting)
• OBS Studio (Free, open source streaming that I use for Telephony Cacophony.)
• Sublime Text (The text editor I use for this site. The free trial can be indefinitely extended.)
• VLC Media Player (Free, open source video player and converter.)
• Ubuntu (I'm no OS snob, but had to use 18.04 for class and have gotten comfortable.)

SITE TOOLS

• Base 64-image (Convert images into base 64 to optimize in CSS)
• Brandmark pallete generator (Try cool AI-generated alternate colorings on images)
• Butterick's Practical Typography (Good advice on making websites/documents readable and professional
• Bytenbit or Labnol (embed Google Photos pics directly into a website)
• Comma Delimiter (Format a lot of data, fast and with lots of useful settings!)
• Dr. Link Checker (Scan your neocities for broken links)
• Material.io (Color, typographic, and design tools for websites & apps. Huge library of free icons.)
• Shapecatcher (Find the Unicode symbol you want by drawing it.)
• TinyPNG (Optimize .png or .jpg files by a lot.)
• Wayback Machine (See webpages as they were all the way back to the late 90s.)

Enjoy your trip through the tubes!