I'm going to start trying to find at least one new (to me) and interesting online thing: A web page, a gopher page, something that's not a corporate run platform. I can't guarantee these will continue to exist, the internet is in constant flux and 404's are likely but ... here goes. 2026-05-27 - Orbital Radar https://orbitalradar.com Track satellites, space debris, etc... It's getting pretty messy up there. 2026-05-26 - Public APIs list https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis Large list of public APIs for all sorts of things. 2026-05-22 - Route You https://www.routeyou.com Of course we (almost) all use Google Maps but if you're looking for trails, whether hiking, street biking, mountain biking, etc.. then this site is better. It shows a lot more details about the trails themselves besides just the fact that they exist. You can see the terrain, the elevation changes over the trail, etc... Looking to get out this weekend and move about? This might be a good resource to help you get started. 2026-05-21 - BrewOtaku - The Homebrew Gaming Magazine https://brewotaku.itch.io This magazine, available in digital or print, showcases some of the more recent homebrew games. There's entries for all different systems: DOS, Commodore, Atari, GB/GBA, etc... The most recent issues cost some money but it looks like the older ones you can look at online for free. I don't know if, going forward, they're going to let free downloads for all but the most recent or if they just wanted some free ones to give you a preview. Anyway, if you're looking for new games for your old systems this is a good place to look. 2026-05-20 - SSL on XP/Vista https://github.com/JohnTHaller/RootCertificateUpdatesForLegacyWindows I haven't tried this yet but it's *supposed* to be a way you can update your SSL certificates on your XP or Windows Vista machine so that you can access SSL-only web resources (HTTPS). Most web servers nowadays are configured to force you to use SSL even if you're not accessing sensitive information. I am going to try installing these to allow access to web APIs and other purposes. However, the repo's readme says he'll update them every 3 months or so but it's been 6 months since the last update so ... who knows how long this will be useful. 2026-05-19 - aNONradio https://anonradio.net - web site https://anonradio.net:8000/anonradio - audio stream aNONradio is an online only radio station and it's a part of SDF public access UNIX (Superdimensional Fortress). You don't need an SDF account to listen. Lots of interesting things to listen to here. One show, Dubious Goals Committee, hosted by the user "tob", you can hang out on SDF's chat system (COMmode) and chat with tob and other users as it airs. 2026-05-18 - Lightyear.fm https://lightyear.fm This website shows you what music (over the radio) you might pick up as you get further from the Earth. Starting with the current year and flying out, the transmissions get older. You can move a slider to the distance you want. Of course this a very narrow representation of the depth of music, as if each year has only one song, one genre. I kind of wish you could change radio stations as well as distance from earth. Like if I go back to the 70's I might hear disco but I also might hear floyd or sabbath, or some country. Still, even with this limitation, it's an interesting site worth checking out. 2026-05-14 - Asteroid Launcher https://neal.fun/asteroid-launcher Sticking with fun-with-maps for a bit, experiement with the destruction that could happen on your favorite location (or least favorite). You set the size of the asteroid, the speed, and the impact angle. Then click where in the world you'd like it to make contact and watch the destruction. There's some other fun stuff on neal.fun as well. 2026-05-13 - EQ Atlas https://eqatlas.ca Whether you're thinking of getting back into playing the MMORPG that started it all (Everquest), pre-nerf (via many expansions) by playing on Project 1999 servers (https://www.project1999.com), or if you're just feeling nostalgic for the game, or just like exploring maps of fantasy worlds. 2026-05-08 - RetroFlix https://retroflix.org Public domain movies and cartoons, enjoy. 2026-05-07 - Notable People Map https://tjukanovt.github.io/notable-people Google Earth like except shows notable people from various locations. 2026-05-06 - IF Archive FTP site ftp://ftp.ifarchive.org Interactive Fiction (Text Adventure) archive. Lots of interesting stuff for IF fans. Magazines, Games, Emulators, Art, Articles, Hints / Walkthroughs / Solutions. There is a web site for this (ifarchive.org) but there seems to be more content available via FTP than I can find via http (at least easily). The FTP server was, for me, quite slow it took almost 3 minutes to download a PDF which was < 1 MB. But maybe the server is just unhappy today. 2026-05-05 - Star Wars Intro Creator https://starwarsintrocreator.kassellabs.io Perhaps no text scroll is more iconic than those at the start of each Star Wars movie. Now you can create your own with the Star Wars Intro Creator! Also go to /projects for other intro (including Breaking Bad, Stranger Things) and other interesting goodies. 2026-05-01 - First Person Tetris https://firstpersontetris.com It's Tetris ... but with more nausia and/or virtigo. Have a great weekend. 2026-04-30 - The Quick and Dirty B-Movie Plot Generator gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Movie: Refresh to generate another B-Movie Plot. Provides a link to any given generated plot. 2026-04-29 - A mod archive on Gopher gopher://nihirash.net Lots of MOD music files and some other interesting things on this gopher server. 2026-04-28 - Tunnels of Doom Reboot http://www.dreamcodex.com/todr.php A remake of the TI-99/4A classic roguelike dungeon crawler: Tunnels of Doom. This was written in Java and is rather old but it's fun. I was a beta tester for it (a little bit). There's also some other games on this site. 2026-04-27 - Byte Collector https://bytecollector.com Online museum of pre-1982 computers and things adjacent. 2026-04-25 - Pink Trombone https://dood.al/pinktrombone Interesting simulation of a mouth, throat, "voice box". Also helped me to understand why I have an unusually high voice and how that ties into what I call "my pocket" which is a tight back throat where food, phlem, and larger pills tend to get stuck and why I have a chronic throat clearing issue (okay TMI). 2026-04-24 - NSTMF Gravity https://lab.nationalmedals.org/gravity.php A fun way to experiement and play with orbital mechanics. There's also some other fun things on this site, if you go up a level. 2026-04-23 - Quadrix https://jumk.de/quadrix/quadrix_e.shtml Just a simple browser based game. The site also has some other interesting games and other projects. 2026-04-22 - Carnegie Mellon Computer Club FTP site ftp://ftp.club.cc.emu.edu The web gets too much love, let's give some to an FTP site! A 2nd one to make up for not having one yesterday: World Wide Telescope: https://worldwidetelescope.org A sky map and a collection of telescopic imagry. 2026-04-20 - SkyVector https://skyvector.com I used this site *A LOT* back when I was flying around Cessnas but even if you're not a pilot but maybe you just have an interest in aviation or maps this site is a lot of fun. Shows airports, weather, plan flights, see TFRs (temporary flight restrictions), which could be anything from an airshow to where the asshole in chief is going to be next. 2026-04-19 - It's PAINT, but on the web :) https://jspaint.app Not quite as powerful as the previously posted "Photoshop but on the web", but who doesn't love toying with paint. 2026-04-10 - IF Mud (Interactive Fiction Multi-User Dungeon) telnet://ifmud.port4000.com:4000 (turn on local echo) Okay last one before I leave for a few days. IF MUD is more than a BBS, it's an online world which is MUD-Like except full of enthusists of interactive fiction (text adventures) including players and authors. They are also the home of Club Floyd, which gets people together on Fridays (there in IFMUD) to play IF games live and also records transcripts of those playthroughs which can be found on the web. Depending no your access users are allowed to create "rooms", items, and most users can pick up items move them around to different rooms, or just hold onto them. There's also BBS like features such as bulletin boards but of course you have to find where the bulletin board is in this virutual world before you can read or post. 2026-04-09 - Didn't post anything yesterday, sorry. Life has been hectic. Starting this weekend I'll on vacation so ... I'm not sure when I'll be able to post more here but I will when I have something. For today : How Loud? https://howloud.com This is a great resource if you're looking to buy a home. Put in the address and it gives you a score of the noise polution. This is based on 3 things: Traffic, Airports and "Local Source" (not sure what Local Sources means). Traffic is really the key one unless the address is near an airport. 2026-04-07 : Geek of the Week https://town.hall.org/radio/Geek This is sort of a "podcast" although it pre-dates the term podcast. "Geek of the Week" are audio interviews with various folks involved in the internet in some fasion from the 90's. This includes people creating protcols (such as the WWW). An interesting time capsule. 2026-04-06 : Cranky Geeks https://archive.org/search?query=collection%3Acrankygeeks&sort=publicdate Cranky Geeks is a talk show from around 2006ish with John C. Dvorak and features guests from various parts of the tech industry (usually writers from tech magazines). They talk about various things going on with computers, the internet, and technology (of the day). 2026-04-05 : Bell System Technical Journal ftp://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/magazines/Bell_System_Technical_Journal Lots of other interesting things on this FTP server as well. 2026-04-04 : A small online museum of old calculators (and some computers) https://baccyflap.com/mus/tech 2026-04-03 : Dots & Boxes https://dotsandboxes.org Just a simple game, can be player vs computer, player vs player, or computer vs computer. 2026-04-02 : Boardwatch Magazine on the Archive https://archive.org/details/boardwatchmagazine Yesterday is the first day I forgot to post something. I'll try to make up for it and post an extra one today. If I get around to it. Update: Okay here's a good one for the (missing) April Fools' Day entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:April_Fools%27_Day_jokes 2026-03-31 : More mods! (tracker music) It's been a busy day today and haven't had much time to surf the net so I'm going to steal a couple online finds from Phigan (thanks Phigan!). Quote: "Here are some more MOD/tracker things.. https://soundtracker.vercel.app/ and https://stef.be/bassoontracker/ .. Browse to the uploads/AT&T tune on the first one ;)" P.S. if you want to contribute online finds then log into the BBS: telnet: mutinybbs.com port 2300, and post in the OnlineFinds channel 2026-03-30 : Winbows XP https://winbows.neocities.org/ It's windows XP, except in a web browser :) It has Paint, multi-user chat, some other fun stuff. 2026-03-29 : Bandcamp https://bandcamp.com I guess I would have, up until today, assumed that everyone already knows of this site. However, it occured to me that people tend to get into ruts and locked into their spotify or whatever other music system they're used to. Bandcamp is a site for independant artists to release their music. Much of the music can be listened to on the site without purchasing. I've bought a couple things, some digital downloads, some records, some CDs, some tapes. Of course you could steel music from here using the analog loophole but usually the digital downloads are pretty cheap and it's good to support the artists so ... don't do that :) 2026-03-28 : Photopea https://www.photopea.com It's like photoshop but in a browser. No sign-in required. Can also import/export .PSD (PhotoShop Document) files. 2026-03-27 : The Mod Archive: https://modarchive.org Lots of mod music files, can play them right in your browser, has a "random" option. 2026-03-26 : PDP-10 Simulator: https://dec10.uknet.net/ Not much you can do here at the moment but that might change. 2026-03-25 : ftp://ftp.2600.com FTP site for 2600 The Hacker Quarterly. I like listening to the archives of the Off The Hook radio program in the "radio/oth" directory. The last one I listened to was from 1990 and he called a couple of COCOTS (customer owned, coined operated telephones). These are pay phones but not owned by the phone company so the phone line attached to them is just a regular phone line. In this case these phones didn't have their phone number printed on them but you can get the number by using the phone to call an ANAC (automatic number announcement circuit) number. Then he called the pay phone on air, got a carrier tone (modem). Then he pressed a touch tone and immediatly was able to listen to the sounds around the phone (traffic, people walking by). So basically exposed that the phones are spies :/ Always interesting to see that this kind of shenaniganism isn't unique to the present day although we do seem to be taking it to the next level today. 2026-03-24 : Okay this one's a bit difficult to link to. What you have to do is go here: https://www.internet-radio.com/stations/talk/ and search for "star trek". One of the feeds will be Star Trek episodes but audio only and will have narration for the visual-only parts that are imporant to understanding what's going on. Good for visually impared or just while your driving or something. 2026-03-23 : Busy Simulator: https://busysimulator.com/ Feign importance with repeating app sounds! 2026-03-22 : Soundscape: https://soundscape.world/ Have fun playing with some epic beats :) Let's start with this: 2026-03-21 : Text to ASCII Art Generator: https://patorjk.com/software/taag/ Here's another one in gopherspace: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/fun/figletgw .