Directories and Search Engines:

404PageFound - Directory of "active vintage websites, old webpages, and web 1.0".

Curlie - "Curlie strives to be the largest human-edited directory of the Web."

Marginalia Search - Search engine that priotizes non-commercial websites and doesn't collect personal data.

Wiby Search - Search engine for the indie web.

eightyeightythirty.one - Really beautiful 3d model directory of websites generated by a webcrawler that links websites together according to links between them.

Gossipsweb - Directory of personal sites with a nice, clean layout, has a lot of creative/experimental web projects.

Links We Like - AcidJaw's assortment of useful, fun or interesting websites found across the web, mostly tech oriented.

HrefHunt - Showcases great websites made by typically inspiring people.

Web Life:

How to Google Like a Pro - An hour long YouTube video on improving your Google searches.

IFixIt - Tutorials for working on and fixing all sorts of electronic devices, including computers, phones, and tablets.

Internet Spring Cleaning - How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts.

Web Tools, Web Design, Web Resources:

32bit Cafe Resources - Absolutely excellent website in general, and should be one of your first stops for looking for resources about the indie web.

builderof - Three.js tutorials.

careful word - an alternative thesaurus with a minimalist layout that is "intended as word reference for inspiration."

Crocotile 3d - Create 3d models and environments with tiles. Infinite Canvas - "The infinite canvas is the foundation of a new class of apps from design tools, to code editors, and workspaces."

Inkscape - Free alternative to Adobe Illustrator.

KodyTools - Over 300 web tools.

Pixelfika - Web design inspiration.

PixelSea - Lovely little archive (with search) for small gifs and web images by Melon.

Pixilart - Create and share pixel art.

Tiny Helpers - "A collection of free single-purpose online tools for web developers."

TinyTools - "A list of small, free, or experimental tools towards joyful digital creation."

Sound and Music

David Hilowitz - Makes a lot of nice, aesthetic reviews of synthesizers. Generally audibly and visually pleasing.

BeepBox - "A surprisingly versatile online music tracker made by John Nesky."

Everynoise - Explore music through hundreds of genres. Recommend by Slams!

Lossless Test - Can audiophiles really hear the difference between lossy and lossless? Take this test to find out if you can!

Khinsider - Large library of video game OSTs available for download.

Knobs - Fantastic, high quality review videos with no voiceovers of different synths and pedals.

MidiCities - Over 150,000 midi files extracted from Geocities

Plaza.One - Internet Vaporwave radiostation. Listen to and like songs with dozens of other live listeners.

Radio.Garden - Radio stations across the world.

Rainbowhunt - Mix peaceful weather/nature sounds together for an ideal background noise.

Robophobia - This person makes some neat electronic music and posts them on their personal site.

Stock Music - A directory of known stock music used in media - including the likes of background tracks to Spongebob.

Browser OS styled sites:

CinnaOS

Intestellars

KuroiOS - Kuroi is a talented front end developer.

Poolsuite - It's 1997 and you're rich.

Simone's Computer - Polished and entertaining "web desktop" themed personal site with a collection of links to similarly themed personal sites.

Windows 93

Windows99.dev - Amazing Microsoft Windows simulator in a browser.

Cool Projects:

Optical Mouse Camera - This guy made a camera from an optical mouse.

Interesting Misc.:

Artcyclopedia - Older website with content written about the different art movements throughout history.

Cambridge in Colour - Nice, quick, solid introductory to some of the basic technical concepts of photography.

ColorTheoriez - Neocities page with useful links to art related pages.

Earth Review - User reviews on basic features of the earth - from rainbows to dogs.

Elle's Homepage - I think this is the most beautiful personal website I've found yet!

eBird - Has a map where you can look up birds spotted in your area.

Geoglypha - Really interesting website, well-made website, "Maps, data, and deep research at the intersection of ancient civilizations, physical geography, and the long arc of human settlement. "

Ghost Towns - Ghost towns of America, mapped and photographed.

John Nesky Makes Things - Personal site of a Google software developer, works on games, including one of my favorite games!

On Bokeh - Essay about bokeh.

Relationship Mapper - Map out your social life, celebrity connections, or fictional characters.

Somethingorotherwhatever - Lots of little interesting doo-dads. The site has a lot of interesting content in general.

Volcanoes and Earthquakes - Interactive map of active volcanoes and earthquakes.

Pretty and fun stuff:

2017 - Neat little interactive doo-dads from 2017, by an interactive design studio.

ASCIICKER - A browser game that's in slow longterm development, the graphics are made up of ASCII. You can try different builds and use 'Q' and 'E' to rotate the camera.

Blob Garden - A web garden filled with blobs, including 3d models of the blobs that you can rotate and inspect.

builderof - three.js tutorial. As of writing this, the homepage background is an interactive 3d environment consisting of a forest full of bubbles...

canvas cycling - beautiful pixel art, color cycling effects, and views/sounds!

Cake23.de - A lot of cool little interactive, mostly fluid, web experiments.

Chronophoto - A guessing game where you try to guess the time period that the photo was taken in.

Drawing.Garden - More beautiful than popping bubble wrap.

JSPaint - A browser clone of an old version of MS Paint (man, this brings back memories.)

Orb Farm - Cute take on the browser sandbox game where you can add organisms, fish, and plants to a little aquarium.

Paupowpow - Artist who uses unconventional methods of creating attractive and interesting digital art, such as Kidpix.

Pointer - Lots of mouse cursors.

Rainbowmazes - Algorithm generated mazes.

Sandspiel - Classic browser sandbox game that reminds me of the type of website I'd waste time on in the 2000s.

station echo - "navigate a labyrinthine transit station, with only your memory to guide you." Created by Sweetfish

Super Pixel Quest - Wonderfully creative, interactive, animated pixel art.. comic?

three.js sketches - Very pretty, interactive sketches made with three.js.


Touchpianist - You control the speed and rhythm, touch pianist takes care of the rest.

WebGL Fluid Experiment - Very pretty.

Misc:

16color - Looking back at an old pixel art animating software and community from 1999-2004. You can still download and use the software here!

Lauren Foley - Old Neocities page with interesting flashing gifs that hasn't been updated in 9 years.