Try navigating to https://earlyweblinks.com

This is a wonderful directory showcasing plenty of real websites from all over the internet. I know what you’re thinking and no, these are not all neocities websites, although there seem to be a few. There are, reportedly, more that 12000 websites in this amazing modern internet directory.

When I said modern, I guess I should have rather used the term ‘current’, because there is nothing particularly modern about this website. That’s exactly how I like it. The original spirit of the internet is palpable on this human curated website. I like knowing that real people actually wrote those websites, and I like knowing that the directory itself has also been assembled by an actual human person.

Actual Human Written Websites Should Be Regarded as Premium.

The sad reality is that projects like this one are typically ignored in the mainstream, and rarely get any significant attention. That’s why I’m writing up a little article to tell you all about it.

I really like it, and it’s just sticking in my mind. There is someone out there willing to take their own time to pull together a curated directory for your enjoyment, and I just think that’s a noble public service. You can see from the comments that the response, even though modest in number, is overwhelmingly positive.

Everybody loves this website. A lot of that love is because we know it’s pointing us to real website made by real people. It’s very hard to compete against that in my books, especially when you see how fake everything has become. We’re in a big commercialized mess of algorithm that the little guy can hardly break through.

Most small personal website never see the light of day. Someone just writes it for their own satisfaction, and I just think that’s great! If there was some way to connect all of that and chalk it up into some sort of mish-mashed system, just to get some interactivity through that, I think we’d be on the right track.

Neocities only has a system to track it’s own subdomain sites.

That’s where this thing is different in a positive way. It’s not only part of one thing. We can see websites from anywhere, and they are all listed here, curated on the basis that they are written by actual human people.

To me, that’s a really good thing, and a thing worth checking out.

Give it a whirl, maybe have a look at the ‘Site of the Week’, or get crazy and try the ‘Random Site’ button.

Best wishes, happy surfing… Where has this been?

https://earlyweblinks.com

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