Links
A directory of sites built for — or at least friendly to — low-bandwidth browsers, old machines, and people who miss the web the way it used to be.
Retro-Friendly Web
Wiby
https://wiby.me
A search engine indexing simple, lightweight, old-school web pages - built to feel like the pre-2000s web, no ad clutter or heavy scripts.
FrogFind!
https://frogfind.com
A stripped-down search proxy made for vintage computers and browsers - strips scripts and styling, returns plain fast-loading HTML.
The Old Net
https://theoldnet.com
A time-travelling proxy that serves period-accurate versions of real sites - weather, news, and more - styled for old browsers.
WinWorld
https://winworldpc.com
An online museum preserving vintage, abandoned, and pre-release software and operating systems, free to browse and download.
VetusWare
https://vetusware.com
A large abandonware archive covering old operating systems, games, and applications across decades of computing.
GUIdebook
https://www.guidebookgallery.org
A screenshot gallery documenting the history of graphical user interfaces across operating systems and software.
Bitsavers
https://bitsavers.org
A huge preservation archive of scanned hardware manuals, schematics, and documentation from computing history.
8-bit Bunkers