Web directorys!

[Memory]

I luv web directorys them help me 2 find cool websites well here sum links

Google web directory (web archive)
THERES ALOT OF THINGS!
https://web.archive.org/web/20051231061331/http://directory.google.com/

Angelfire web directory
Is cool but dont have that much
https://www.angelfire.lycos.com/directory/index.tmpl

Geocities archives
https://www.oocities.org/#gsc.tab=0
https://www.geocities.ws/

Ytoo
ytoo.org

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Have fun! 

[garystu]

Google web directory is a classic. Pretty sure I used to use it in school before it went defunct, to find educational web sites for school work. Incredibly boring stuff! 

Anyway.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050306124226/http://www.pazu.net/links/
The Game Turnpike. Video games of course. Had a dedicated "all your base" section.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200630072121/https://theoldhyperlinks.neocities.org/websites/allwebs.html
The Old Hyperlinks. A list of all the abandoned, outdated and forgotten websites. Also includes some "web revival" shit.
http://www.qrd.org/qrd/www/index.html
The Queer Resources Directory. Hasn't been updated since 2009. :( But lots of older web queer stuff.
https://www.ftmguide.org
Hudson's FTM resource guide. Hasn't been updated since 2017 :( But lots of older web trans man stuff.
https://web.archive.org/web/19991111094828/http://macuser.zdnet.com/mu_0396/feature/feature1.html
101 must-see sites from 1996.
https://indieseek.xyz
Indieseek. A directory of personal sites belonging to members of the Indieweb community.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230817122434/https://links.yesterweb.org/
Yesterlinks. Variety directory.

Spoiler

this is all stuff from the "cool links" section of my own personal website. would recommend maintaining one yourself. its not quite a web directory to keep a links list, but it is a lot of fun

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[di]

I recently found Bukmark Club, which is a link directory dedicated to websites that have link directories ^_^

[brisray]

Another place trying to save the old AOL Hometown, Fortune City, Geocities, Geocities Japan, and Myspace Music sites is Restorativland. This, the Geocities.ws and Oocities sites all have a long way to go yet before they grab and save everything still left.

Other interesting projects are Old'aVista and The Old Net which are search engines that look through the Internet Archive for keywords from the old sites.

If you are interested in particularly interested in finding articles from the old sites then you can use Google, Bing or whatever search engine supports the line:

(site:site1.com OR site:site2.com OR site:site3.com) search-term(s)

Suppose you are interested in Pokemon then you can use:

(site:50megs.com OR site:tripod.com OR site:angelfire.com OR site:geocities.ws OR site:freeservers.com OR site:oocities.org OR site:oocities.com OR restorativland.org) pokemon

I have written more about searching the small, personal web at Alternative & Specialized Search Engines

[xwindows]

I luv web directorys them help me 2 find cool websites well here sum links

"directorys -> "directories"; but that aside, why THeRE WaS nO MenTiON oF CuRLiE!?

Curlie (1)
https://curlie.org/

this is all stuff from the "cool links" section of my own personal website. would recommend maintaining one yourself. its not quite a web directory to keep a links list, but it is a lot of fun

I do have one, and mine is unusual in few aspects:

• I don't just link: I also write introducing summary and importance I see from each entry; and I also have extra sub-links inside for singling out specially interesting/important pages inside of some entries as well.
• There is a specially-formatted Atom feed (2) for "following" it as a link aggregator too. (3)

I wonder how many people would even bother making link aggregator-style feed for their personal link pages these days...


(1) Spiritual successor to the defunct-for-many-years-now DMOZ.org. I'm not sure if it was a full successor in actual directory data though.
(2) Not just specially-formatted; it is also hand-crafted in this case.
(3) Which means following it would effectively turn your feed reader into a personal link aggregator.

[PurpleHello98]

"directorys -> "directories"; but that aside, why THeRE WaS nO MenTiON oF CuRLiE!?

Curlie (1)
https://curlie.org/

Honestly, I'm not crazy about Curlie. It's useful for some more general topics, but I find that it has few personal sites and few sites about the topics that interest me particularly, so I don't use it.

[DiffydaDude]

I found a pretty interesting site called www.ytoo.org, its got lots of stuff on there, check it out