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Anna's Archive managed to get their hands on "86 million music files" from Spotify, "representing around 99.6% of listens" and metadata for "256 million tracks", that represents "estimated 99.9% of tracks"

I am at loss of words

omegajor

ai-less browsers

sooo lots of people are looking for alternatives now that mozilla announced firefox is going to intregrate ai so here are some options

vi mucha gente mal por lo de que firefox se va a llenar de ia también así que les traigo alternativas !!!

1. Vivaldi:

this is the one i personally use and i loved it. i was a previously opera user and had to move when they started putting some crypto shit, and it didn't disappoint. it's pretty customizable, it can be as minimal or complete as you want it, it comes with ad block, tracker blocks and proton vpn (tho you can easily take it off). openly spoke about ai not being needed everywhere and very privacy friendly. they're still chromium based so you can use any extension that works on chrome

2. Waterfox

open source fork for firefox for those who want to keep using firefox extensions and functionalities. you can look around the code and modify it even if you're tech savvy. they also stated having no intention of including ai in the browser and are very privacy focused.

3. Hellium

another chromium fork, open source and pretty new. it's still in beta but it has gained attention for being minimalistic and private. it's very light and only includes an adblock, also focused on being as free of bloat as possible. it still doesn't have an android ver and tho it seems promising we can't be sure they wont include ai in the future, but it's worth to give it a try!!

devotedlystrangewizard

i think everyone should program at least once just so you realise just how fucking stupid computers are. because theyre so fucking stupid. a computer wants to be told what to do and exactly that and if you make one typo or forget one detail it starts crying uncontrollably

ms2253

AffinityOnLinux

=> https://github.com/seapear/AffinityOnLinux/

Affinity Studio, which is new and free, already works on linux! been using Affinity Designer + Photo for many years. they're great, so Studio might be worth looking into.

iPad version coming soon too

(some paid AI Canva features don't work, i think, but idk/idc, because i don't use those)

technofeudalism

i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

preponderance-of-parallelograms

It really is sad how it's a dying art form.

While it costs someone, somewhere money, it doesn't have to cost you much of anything. Truly browser-based games (so, no shared high score list, for example) can be hosted in a variety of free services like GitHub Pages, glitch.com , neocities, or Netlify . A few of these can even store a bit of data on the server so you can have that shared high score list or whatever.

Adding things like your own domain name would add cost, and if a page gets popular enough then you might exhaust the free tiers of these sites, but it's still so viable as a medium.

We lament the death of Flash, but nothing would stop us from building new tools on top of browsers' more-advanced capabilities. In a lot of ways it's probably already easier than it was back in the heyday, between powerful libraries and good documentation like MDN.

Let's keep these circulating!

thunderlina

In the wake of the TikTok ban and revival as a mouthpiece for fascist propaganda, as well as the downfall of Twitter and Facebook/Facebook-owned platforms to the same evils, I think now is a better time than ever to say LEARN HTML!!! FREE YOURSELVES FROM THE SHACKLES OF MAJOR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AND EMBRACE THE INDIE WEB!!!

You can host a website on Neocities for free as long as it's under 1GB (which is a LOT more than it sounds like let me tell you) but if that's not enough you can get 50GB of space (and a variety of other perks) for only $5 a month.

Create and surf awesome websites for free.

And if you can't/don't want to pay for the extra space, sites like File Garden and Catbox let you host files for free that you can easily link into NeoCities pages (I do this to host videos on mine!) (It also lets you share files NeoCities wouldn't let you upload for free anyways, this is how I upload the .zip files for my 3DS themes on my site.)

Host your files with decency.

The cutest free file host you've ever seen

Don't know how to write HTML/CSS? No problem. W3schools is an invaluable resource with free lessons on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and a whole slew of other programming languages, both for web development and otherwise.

W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. Covering popular subjects like HTML,

Want a more traditional social media experience? SpaceHey is a platform that mimics the experience of 2000s MySpace

SpaceHey is a retro social network focused on privacy and customizability. It's a friendly place to have fun, meet friends, and be creative.

Struggling to find independent web pages that cater to your interests via major search engines? I've got you covered. Marginalia and Wiby are search engines that specifically prioritize non-commercial content. Marginalia also has filters that let you search for more specific categories of website, like wikis, blogs, academia, forums, and vintage sites.

Marginalia Search is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept

Wiby is a search engine for older style pages, lightweight and based on a subject of interest. Building a web more reminiscent of the early

Maybe you wanna log off the modern internet landscape altogether and step back into the pre-social media web altogether, well, Protoweb lets you do just that. It's a proxy service for older browsers (or really just any browser that supports HTTP, but that's mostly old browsers now anyways) that lets you visit restored snapshots of vintage websites.

With ProtoWeb, you can browse the web like it's 1995!

Protoweb has a lot of Geocities content archived, but if you're interested in that you can find even more old Geocities sites over on the Geocities Gallery

A restored visual gallery of the archived Geocities sites

And really this is just general tip-of-the-iceberg stuff. If you dig a little deeper you can find loads more interesting stuff out there. The internet doesn't have to be a miserable place full of nothing but doomposting and targeted ads. The first step to making it less miserable is for YOU, yes YOU, to quit spending all your time on it looking at the handful of miserable websites big tech wants you to spend all your time on.

umber-penumbra

Here are some user sites I've really gotten a lot out of when I started coding mine!

Petrapixel

Sadgrl

REPTH

The Frugal Gamer

→ Web Building Resources

Codepen.io - a sandbox where you can test your html/css/java live

AnimatiSS - a collection of css animations you can copy/paste

Transparent Textures - exactly what it says on the tin!

CSS Grid Layout Guide - I studied this. So useful.

And then not to toot my own horn but here are my two-ish sites!

→ Mobile Friendly

I'm Listening - a music review project blog I share with my family (eye friendly)

→ Desktop Only

Shadow of Valtus - An entirely self-indulgent eyestrain flashback personal blog (not eye friendly)

The Vault - A subsection of SoV that's just D&D resources (eye friendly)

i-am-a-fish

please learn how to code

like, if you're bored today, and not doing anything,

learn a little bit of coding please

i-am-a-fish

hi hi hello PLEASE DON'T JUST REBLOG THIS FOR LATER

I know how much you love reblogging posts and then never looking at them ever again. I get it, I really do. but PLEASE

just open one of these links and explore a bit if you're interested

Scratch - great coding program for learning the basics, but so good you can make a video game with it

Codecademy - learn any coding language with lessons

Neocities - literally make a website

it's all free

this-rats-over-it-all

May i also add: codepen.io

It's free, it's not a guided learning platform, it's just a cool way to practice

eslamdahab-dhb

Look at open-source software.

Here are some examples:

Ableton Live ➔ Reaper, LMMS, Ardour

Adobe After Effects ➔ Natron

Adobe Animate ➔ OpenToonz, Tahoma2D, Pencil2D

Adobe Audition ➔ Audacity

Adobe Dreamweaver ➔ Blue Fish

Adobe Illustrator ➔ Inkscape

Adobe InDesign ➔ Scribus

Adobe Lightroom ➔ Darktable

Adobe Photoshop ➔ GIMP, Krita

Adobe Premier ➔ Olive, Lightworks, Kdenlive, Shotcut

AutoCAD ➔ OpenSCAD, LibreCAD, FreeCAD

Corel Draw ➔ Inkscape

Corel Painter ➔ Krita, MyPaint

Matlab, Mathematica, Maple ➔ GNU Octave, Scilab, FreeMath, wxMaxima, Sage Math, GeoGebra Classic

Maya, 3dsMax ➔ Blender

Microsoft Excel ➔ LibreOffice Calc

Microsoft Office ➔ LibreOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop Editors

Microsoft Powerpoint ➔ LibreOffice Impress

Microsoft Visio ➔ Dia, LibreOffice Draw

Microsoft Windows ➔ Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, and any other Linux distribution

Microsoft Word ➔ LibreOffice Writer

OneNote ➔ Joplin, XJournal++, Zim

Outlook ➔ Thunderbird

Pinnacle Studio or any Video Editing Software ➔ Kdenlive, Shotcut

Unity, Unreal, GameMaker ➔ Godot, Love2D

decohoarding

chemistry, linux, computer, tech, electricity for anonymous

credits

'i love old web' stamp by vtge cyberspace shiny button by sisyphaenn square windows by kicked_in_teeth (their deviantart account no longer exists and isn't archived via the waybackmachine)

this-glorbo-likes-pngs

saradika

hi j!!! I really love your blog, thanks for making theses amazing materials! do you think you can make any webcore (especially Windows related) dividers? if not, it's okay! I really appreciate anyways!!!! 💕💞💕💞💕💞

hello - thank so much! I am so happy you’re enjoying them!! And sure, I hope you like these (and that they are sort of what you were looking for?)

I didn’t see anything on canva I liked, so I ended up making these from scratch in procreate - using Windows 95 for reference. 💖 (I thought if you wanted to use them for a Masterlist, then Start one could be for navigation and then the Notepad for fics? And then a divider to break things up.) But they could all be dividers, too!!!

[Free] Masterlist Headers & Dividers!

Please like or reblog if you use 💕

cryptidize

Fuck It, Internet Guide

Hey there! As social media becomes more and more inhospitible for the local user, I wanted to post some useful/fun links to just about anything I can think of! Enjoy! Also, if you'd like an invite to the P!rated Games discord, lmk! ^_^

If this post is useful to you PLEASE consider tossing some money my way? I am so freaking poor, kthnx.

I AM CURRENTLY STILL UPDATING THIS POST AND I WILL REBLOG IT WHEN I ADD TO IT! Feel free to comment things I've missed, I'm sure there's way more than this came from!

***MAJOR EDIT: I HAVE MOVED THESE LINKS***

These links have been moved to my website on Neocities. This way, I can more easily add and update this list (it's over 100 links long!) AS WELL AS add more detailed descriptions. Funnily enough, tumblr doesn't really like it when you try to edit an 100 link long blog post.

Updated as of April 2024 :D

Website is still in progress, don't mind the construction.

Links included are web centric (URL, generators, and archive collections), Knowledge Bases (like Libgen and The Eye, as well as open source projects from art museums), Art Tools (Krita and different tools), Music Tools and Discovery (radio sites and music searches based on what you already like), and fun stuff (like Gifypet and Flashpoint!) Below the Read More is images of all the links and their descriptions mentioned on my site!

cryptidize

Fuck It, Internet Guide

I AM CURRENTLY STILL UPDATING THIS POST AND I WILL REBLOG IT WHEN I ADD TO IT! Feel free to comment things I've missed, I'm sure there's way more than this came from!

WEB CENTRIC

CURLIE: THE COLLECTOR OF URLs (Curlie strives to be the largest human-edited directory of the Web. You can save sites and create your own mini webring!)

Internet Archive (A collection of over 818 Billion websites, books, movies, music, and more. Hosts the Wayback Machine, which can be used to access a multitude of sites, given they were indexed in time.)

Wiby (Human submission search engine for older webrings, as well as a how-to guide on how to develop your own search engine)

Unicode Text Converter (Easy way to make your text illegible to Google but be warned, it will make screen readers malfuction)

Embed Responsively (Easily convert links and embeds to work responsively within your site - perfect for neocities!)

Generator Land (Generate a list or prompt for just about anything!)

GifCities (Part of the Internet Archive, a special project done as part of the 20th anniversary in an effort to save data from GeoCities. Find a gif for just about anything!)

Animated Images (Another gif repository, though this one is easier to search and includes small animations.)

Gifs-Paradise (Another gif repository. I swear I collect these. Searchable and categorized.)

ASCII Art Archive (Database of ASCII Art, also known as text art)

Christopher Johnson's ASCII Art Collection (Another, arguably larger, ASCII Art database)

MelonLand (A web project and online arts community that celebrates homepages, virtual worlds, the world-wide-web and the digital lives that all netizins share, here at the dawn of the digital age. See their thoughts and the WEB REVIVAL they're starting.)

Sadgrl Webrings (Webrings brought to us by Sadgrl.Online - 60+ different ones to be exact) and Sadgrl Links (70+ links just like the ones in this post)

Districts at Neocities (Remember neighborhoods on Geocities? Imagine that but for Neocities!)

Neocities Banners (Banners from all across neocities. Blinkies, banners and more leading all over the web. Mostly 88x31, though there are bigger ones too. Technically counts as a webring.)

Blinkies.cafe (Site for blinkies where you can even make your own! I get most of my blinkies here and off DeviantArt.)

88x31 Collection (Possibly the largest collection I've seen for 88x31 buttons)

90's Cursor Effects (Want a funky cursor for your blog or website? Wanna be able to realtime preview what cursors would look like? Come get some code!)

The Malware Museum (Interact with malware and viruses from the 80s and 90s through emulation! No nasty virus interactions needed :D )

KNOWLEDGE BASES

Library Genesis - LIBGEN (Scientific journals - dedicated to archiving every science journal and their articles in existence.)

Information Mesh (A web platform celebrating the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web that explores social, technical, cultural and legal facts throughout different interactive timelines.)

Web Design Museum (Over 2,000 sorted websites showing web design trends from '96 to '06.)

The History of the Web (A twice monthly newsletter about web history, and the incredible people that built it. Goes from 1989 to present.)

Field Guide to Web Accessibility (Principles and applications to every day web scenarios in order to make the web a more friendly place!)

CARI - Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute (an online community and collective association of researchers and designers dedicated to carrying on the important work of categorizing "consumer aesthetics" from the late midcentury, when work on the subject somewhat trailed off, through today.)

The Eye (Archive consisting of 140TB of books, websites, games, software, or anything else you can really think of.)

The Uncensored Library (A project from Reporters without Borders, where they use a loophole using Minecraft to distribute information.)

National Gallery of Art Public Domain (The National Gallery of Art has an open access policy for images of works of art in their permanent collection which the Gallery believes to be in the public domain. Images of these works are available for download free of charge for any use, whether commercial or non-commercial.)

Library of Congress Public Domain (Features items from the Library's digital collections that are free to use and reuse. The Library believes that this content is either in the public domain, has no known copyright, or has been cleared by the copyright owner for public use.)

Public Domain Review (an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.)

New York Public Library Public Domain (Our digitized collections are available as machine-readable data: over one million records for you to search, crawl and compute.)

Official articles from NASA (PubSpace is NASA's designated public access repository. It is a collection of NASA-funded scholarly publications within the STI Repository, aiming to increase access to federally funded research in accordance with NASA Public Access Policy.)

Universal Hint System (Wanna get some vague help for an older video game without getting spoiled? Check out these awesome hints!)

Smithsonian Open Access (Download, share, and reuse millions of 2D and 3D digital items from their 21 museums, 9 research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.)

Instructables (Wanna know how to make just about anything? Check here!)

QZAP Zine Archive (Archive of LGBT+ Zines, began in 2003 with zines dating back all the way to the 1970s. NSFW AT TIMES, BROWSE AT YOUR OWN RISK.)

P!racy Masterpost (Tumblr-based masterpost of game piracy, last updated 2021. A bit old but some of the stuff there is still good. If this link breaks, please contact me.)

P!rated Games Megathread (masterpost created by r/P!ratedGames includes required components as well as anything else you need. NOTE: PLEASE HAVE SOME SORT OF PROTECTION WHEN NAVIGATING THIS SITE)

Geocities Gallery (A website hosting a working archive for many abandoned Geocities Sites.)

Snipplr (Code Snippet repository. Great for coding issues.)

GeoCities (Archived) (Great for searching ancient webrings for gifs and website ideas. Not so great for downloads.)

Freeware Guide (Archived) (The Freeware-Guide died sometime in 2021 [we think March] but it's still full of VERY valuable information. Links are broken pretty much all the way through, but the names of software as well as what they do can be useful in finding them elsewhere thru some google searching)

Peelopaalu (Where I got a good handful of these links - AND THERE'S MORE!!!)

The Simple Site (More links to so much more cool stuff!)

ART TOOLS

Untitled - Paint (An in-browser version of classic Microsoft Paint!)

KidPix (In-browser version of classic KidPix for the public domain!)

Pixel Logic - A Guide to Pixel Art (Comprehensive guide to making cool art for $10 USD, updated semi-frequently and you get all new versions for free)

SAI - Bootlegged (A version of SAI with a multitude of brushes and textures pre-installed. Quite literally the only thing I use to draw aside from Clip Studio Paint.)

Stripe Generator (Need some easy stripes for an art piece? Can't be bothered to try and space stripes evenly? This is for you!)

Photopea (Free online photo editor supporting files for Adobe Photoshop, XCF, Sketch App, Adobe XD, and CorelDRAW, as well as many more!)

blender (A FOREVER free and Open Source software for 3D Modeling, full of tutorials and assets. I feel like most people don't know it's completely free to play with)

Vertex Meadow (A web-browser tool that renders 2D images as explorable 3D terrain. With it you can create detailed and unusual 3D environments to explore using a 2D paint-program-like interface.)

OpenGameArt (Need art for your game but you're not an artist? Consider checking here first [or just hire a real artist looking for work on here!])

MUSIC TOOLS AND DISCOVERY

BandLab (Social music platform that enables creators to make music and share their creative process with musicians and fans. Completely free with an option to set up stripe where you get 100% OF PROFITS. Available for apple/android/desktop)

JummBox (Free online beat-maker with a very simple interface that runs on your browser)

Mydora (Mydora is a continuous streaming player that gives you a deep dive into the lost archives of Myspace Music, based on some recovered data called the Dragon Hoard, with some additional metadata (most notably the locations and genres) from a different scan of Myspace conducted back in 2009. Contains 490,000+ songs, only a fraction of what was wiped out.)

Radiooooo (A place where people are able to play hit songs from the decade of their choosing from whatever country they wish.)

WFMU (Independent freeform radio broadcasting. Currently ongoing.)

Gnoosic (A sort-of music search engine that finds you songs/bands based off of your music taste.)

Khinsider (3.1 TB worth of video game soundtracks)

Radio.garden (Listen to thousands of radio stations all around the world.)

FUN STUFF

FrogLand (The purpose of Frogland is to show that the Internet can indeed provide a wealth of useful information and still be fun. Mainly, this site is dedicated to the many teachers out there who are finding new uses for the Internet as a tool for educating youngsters. Hopefully, it will inspire some young minds to find new interest in herpetology, biology, and environmental issues...not to mention providing some inspiration for young future computer "wizzes"! No longer active but still useful.)

Windows 98 icon Viewer (Want clear jpgs of all the Windows 98 symbols and icons? They're all here!)

GifyPet (Create your own embeded pet that people can play with and feed when they visit your page! See my version HERE [only works on desktop tho])

Ultimate Mushroom (Like the idea of picking mushrooms in your area but no idea what to look for? Check out this info hub!)

Gif Gallery (Another gif repositiory, only sorted by being numbered 1-100,000. Fun and silly, not so much useful unless you're looking for random gifs. Part of the MelonLand Webring)

Interesting DOS Programs (A host of DOS programming, guides and links.)

Internet Archive: MS-DOS Games (8,000 games right in your web browser! Your browser can play DOOM!)

Tiled Backgrounds (Need some small jpegs for easy website bg tiling? Browse this collection sorted by color.)

cOOl & EMO tEXt cOnVERTer xXX (Flashing warning. Wanna type like you're in the 2000s? Need a funny Green Day lyric as a caption? This is probably the best place for you.)

0x40 (Flashing Warning. Anime images synced with music. Fun for parties, lol)

WebGL Fluid Simulation (In browser fluid simulator, great for art backgrounds and desktop wallpapers.)

Flashpoint (The biggest collection of preserved Flash Games and Animations)

NCase (Free games and open source projects from Nicky [THESE ARE REALLY COOL AND FUN, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND])

Your World of Text (A huge interactive text doc that anyone can add to anonymously.)

Text To Speech (TTS in more than 30 languages and over 180 voices.)

ASCII Art Generator (Make ASCII Art from any image.)

Petit Tube (Random Youtube videos with less than 10 views)

Noclip Website (Noclip around various video game maps in your browser!)

Monster Mash (Create and animate some monsters in browser! You can also download their files.)

cat-webp-deactivated20250602

stamp template based on old paint programs. i know it's a bit of a tight fit compared to some other templates, but it's usable regardless. examples ⬇️