Since the early 1990s, I've been collecting and categorizing web sites
I've found useful. When I published the first version of this web site
all those years ago, that list was the focus of the site. Back then,
everybody on the web seemed to have the same idea. Eventually, some
people took the idea more seriously, and formed companies like Yahoo to commercialize their work. I've kept plugging along with my humble,
eclectic list all these years, and I can't seem to stop collecting. I
hope you find it useful, too.
- Miscellaneous
- Beepcore, home of BEEP, the Application Protocol Framework
- Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015
- Bloglet: email-based reader for blogs
- Built With: BuiltWith's goal is to help developers, researchers and designers find out what technologies pages are using which may help them to decide what technologies to implement themselves.
- DynDNS.org
- EasyDNS, a domain name registrar that I've seen recommended several times
- HTTP Archive: tracks how the web was built
- Internet Archive, including the Wayback Machine, which lets you view web sites as they were long ago
- Microformats: designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards
- Page2RSS: a service that helps you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds. It will check any web page for updates and deliver them to your favorite RSS reader.
- PowerDNS: free DNS hosting
- Reducing Your Website's Bandwidth Usage
- Semantic Web
- Siteuptime.com: a free website monitoring service that watches your website 24/7/365 and notifies you if it becomes unavailable
- Think Vitamin: nourishment to help the web grow
- Tim Berners-Lee: the inventor of the World Wide Web
- TinyURL.com: will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires
- W3C Validator: checks your web page for HTML standards compliance
- Webby Awards
- ZeroConf: a standard for zero-configuration networking
- Organizations
- Framasoft: a non-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipatory digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you!
- IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force
- InterNIC
- ISOC: Internet Society
- W3C: World-Wide Web Consortium
- Reference material
- Search the Internet
- Software
- AllegroServe, a free Common Lisp web server
- Apache Software Foundation, who created the free Apache web server
- Chrome: Google's fast, free web browser
- Email
- FastCGI, a language independent, scalable, open extension to CGI that provides high performance without the limitations of server specific APIs
- FormTextResizer: a bookmarklet that allows you to resize any textarea or text input on any webpage
- Hypercore Protocol, including HyperDrive
- Hyphanet, an interesting project that makes possible distribution of files in a completely decentralized manner
- IPFS: the Interplanetary File System
- Opera web browser
- Syncthing: replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized
- TCP Flow: a TCP flow recorder
- VNC, a free remote-control program for PCs and Unix machines
- RealVNC: the company that has taken over VNC development
- TightVNC, Bandwidth-Efficient VNC Distribution
- UltraVNC
- x0rfbserver: a program used to export an X desktop to another machine
- web servers
- CL-HTTP, a Common LISP Hypermedia Server
- Medusa, a high-performance web server written in Python
- thttpd, a popular, single-process web server that uses non-blocking I/O
- Web Design