- Hobbyist page for bartending and some recipes related to it
- The home page of a devious fanfic writer.
- Wonderfully designed website covering the webmaster's interests, especially fashion of the lolita variety.
- Web blog with a very unique aesthetic and lots of links.
- Personal page containing resources on ONScripter, varied downloads and information on Higurashi.
- Homey, well-designed website with many resources for small web outreach.
- A site that themes itself around the Youtube of yesteryear, a time period I possess much fondness for. Contains many little easter eggs and artistic pages, as well as an extensive link directory.

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Anilinks - A vast directory of links relating to various anime series.

Cadnomori - Extensive website with lots of cool things on it. As someone who also loves his works, the Togashi theme as well as all of the parts of the site dedicated to it are awesome.

CreepingNet's World - Lovely, varied page dedicated to the webmaster's interest in guitar and vintage tech especially.

Denpa Archive - Very well designed website that plays host to obscure content from denpa visual novels.

Melps - Love the design of this website. Was a big inspiration for my site's layout.

Momotsuki - A simple but fairly extensive Pani Poni Dash fansite.

Peelopaalu - An awesome link directory.

Shishka - Personal website containing lots of awesome, vintage graphics.

Temportal - "This site features a collection of ROBLOX games from 2006 to 2008 that are fully compatible with their respective clients."

The Frutiger Aero Archive - Website dedicated to the archival of frutiger aero-related content and media.

Velvet Blue - Fellow black and blue website with a wonderful design and very intimate writings.

guiformat - Convert any drive to fat32 without issue. Takes up all of 76 kb. It just works. Useful for console modding.

Open Shell - Makes the start menu look how it looked in older Windows operating systems.

Pivot Animator - The cultured choice for making stick figure animations.

RetroBar - Makes the taskbar look how it looked in older Windows operating systems.

ScreenToGif - Need to record your desktop and send it to a friend? ScreenToGif has you covered.

SSB Roster Maker - Make your own fictional Smash roster with no image editing skills required!

VS Codium - Fork of VS Code with Microsoft's telemtry removed. If you're using it for a website, make sure to get the LiveServer extension. Makes testing things a breeze.

WACUP - Fork of WINAMP maintained by a former developer of the program. Behaves mostly the same as the 5.666 release of Winamp with added improvements such as built in last.fm support and QOL improvements to metadata editing.

Soulseek - P2P client for sharing files. Great for downloading music, but has lots of other things as well.

Paint.net - A simple and intuitive image editing program that is completely free. Been using this actively for over a decade and don't plan on stopping any time soon.

Notepad3 - A program that sort of bridges the gap between base Notepad and Notepad++. It has text editor functionality, but also works quite well just for writing normal .txt files. Very good UI design as well.

Onion Ring - Simple webring-making script that requires little technical knowledge to use.

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Websites

4crawler - Site dedicated primarily to car enthuiasts but also contains info on other subjects. Online since 1996.

4 Dark Racers Clan Forum - Forum dedicated to the 4DR online clan from Mario Kart Wii, contains some nice game-related resources.

Abyssal Chronicles - Tales series fansite. Still online and maintained, but the newer versions seem to have deleted a fair amount of the content that was present on previous ones. Also the old version has retro graphics on it so I'm linking to this one dag on it!

A Glimpsed Horizon - "Welcome to A Glimpsed Horizon, an anime collective which currently houses 718 avatars, 9 textures, 89 PNG renders, and 11 fanlistings."

Amassment Organization - "Welcome to Amassment, a shrine discussion community focused on promoting the production of shrines and fansites."

Angelic-Trust - Website containing downloads and website layouts. Once contained photoshop brushes, but these can sadly no longer be accessed.

Anglish - Website containing resources on Anglish. "Anglish is a kind of English which prefers native words over those borrowed from foreign languages. Anglish is linguistic purism applied to English."

Animefanlistings.com - "You have reached The Anime Fanlistings Network! We are a network site (or link directory) for anime and manga related fanlistings."

Animelyrics - Great tool for finding the lyrics to anime OPs and EDs. Also seems to have a forum which is pretty neat.

AnimeMusicVideos - A still-maintained website dedicated to AMVs and their creation

Animenation - Vast collection of website links pertaining to anime from the 00s.

Animetheme.com - "Here you will find all kinds of wallpapers, desktop gadgets and downloads featuring your favorite Anime series, Vocaloid characters and video games."

Anipike - The Anime Web Turnpike was the #1 link directory for anime-focused websites in it's day. Unfortunately the later versions of site aged like milk; pages low agonizingly slow and the links often don't work since they aren't direct. As such you can only really browse the earlier versions of the site. Still a ton of websites to sift through though.

Animesuki - Formerly one of the biggest anime piracy websites on the net, it has now become forum-only and exists as a niche phpBB forum where people discuss anime.

Aquilius - Graphics website with a wonderful dreamlike art style. Sadly, a lot of the images weren't archived. But the ones that were are quite wonderful

Archiverse - An extensive archive of the Miiverse service before it went down.

ASCII Art Collection by Lorrie - Contains ASCII art created by a wonderfully talented artist. I really love how this page even colors in the ASCII, very cool.

Astral Contract - An awesome and very in-depth Chrono Crusade fansite. Mostly focuses on the manga.

Atari Age - Forum primarily centered around Atari games and homebrew but has also grown to encompass retro game consoles outside of the Atarisphere.

Atari Forum - Forum dedicated to Atari PCs.

Battle Box Generator - Useful for making your very own alternate history battles in the vein of a Wikipedia page

Beast's Lair - A quite active forum for all things Type Moon.

Boardreader - A forum search engine, combs through indexed forums to find whatever keywords you search up.

buruma.net - Website containing a myriad of fanlistings. Also provides website hosting.

britishempire.co.uk - Informative website about the history of the British Empire

CarolinaSucks - A UNC athletics... uh... what's the opposite of a fansite? A hatesite? Yeah that's what it is, a hatesite.

Cartographers' Guild - "The Cartographers’ Guild is a forum created by and for map makers and aficionados, a place where every aspect of cartography can be admired, examined, learned, and discussed."

Catbox - Anonymous file hosting website, good for temporary uploads of images.

Celestial Star - Huge collection of high quality graphics, web layouts, and design tutorials. The site is still up but unfortunately seems to have broke recently so I have to link to an archived copy, I do hope it gets fixed sometime.

Chadsoft - Official website for the CTGP mod for Mario Kart Wii. Notably contains an installation guide for the mod itself as well as time trial leaderboards which are updated directly from the Wii's of players.

Cherry-Skies.net - Collective containing 3 character fansites for Rurouni Kenshin and a neat, partially preserved graphics directory to boot. There's more stuff as well, but not all of it was archived.

CivilWarTalk - Hobbyist forum for people interested in the civil war. Helped me find some records about my ancestors.

Cloudpane - An extensive repository of fanlisting collectives

College Poll Archive - "The most complete collection of AP poll data on the web including win-loss records, first-place votes, conferences, and total points from 1936 to present."

Crisis at Fort Sumter - "Crisis at Fort Sumter is an interactive historical simulation and decision making program. Using text, images, and sound, it reconstructs the dilemmas of policy formation and decision making in the period between Abraham Lincoln's election in November 1860 and the battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861."

CSNades - Easy, streamlined method for learning grenade lineups on Counter Strike.

Crystal Rain - Graphics website, primarily focuses on avatars with a very bright and dreamy art style.

Cursors-4u - Large repository of custom cursors for every day use or for usage on your website. Got many flaming ultra death sword cursors from here in the past.

Custom Mario Kart Wiiki - "A wiki dedicated to Custom Tracks, Texture Hacks and Custom Characters for Mario Kart Wii. We have 14,875 articles."

d2jsp - Forum dedicated to the Diablo game series.

Dadgum Games - Website primarily focused around retro video game programmers.

Dafont - My go-to font site, been reliably providing fonts since 2000.

Dark Chii - A 2000s Chobits fansite with some great avatars and Winamp skins.

Deathgod.org - Death Note fansite that contains a lot of cute nuggets such as a comprehensive list of every toy Near played with in the anime/manga as well as a guide on how to be L.

Discmaster - Directory primarily consisting of vintage PC files

DBCollection - Dragon Ball fansite. Contains reference of all 180 fights in the show and episode summaries as well.

dbz.superpope.com - Website pertaining to reviewing retro DBZ games. Online since 1998.

DBZWarriors - DBZ fansite consisting of awesome AMVs and useful plot summaries

Digital Typhoon - Biggest repository for radar imagery of typhoons that you'll find anywhere. You can find complete cloud-view lifespans of any typhoon dating back decades.

Drawabox - "Anyone can learn to draw. It's not some magical talent a few people are born with. It's a skill you can train. We can help."

Dreamcast Talk - Forum dedicated to the Sega Dreamcast. You can find lots of mods and homebrew here.

Dreampipe - "Dreampipe is a portal for Dreamcast Websites, Leaderboards, and VMU content"

Emotion - "Welcome to Emotion, a website directory of shrines dedicated to anime, manga and video game subjects!"

Encylopaedia Metallum - A massive database of over 186,000 metal bands, also has a forum.

Erasmatazz - Personal website of pioneer game designer Chris Crawford. Online since 1996, contains resources related to game design and interactive story telling as well as personal writings.

Ethereal Visions - 2000s link directory of graphics sites, especially ones focusing on animanga.

EvaGeeks - A forum for hardcore Evangelion fans.

EvaUnit007 - Though much of the site wasn't preserved, this page contains an awesome collection of custom made avatars and forum signatures.

Eri Fan Club Propaganda Office - "EFCPO is the branch of the Eri Fan Club with a sole purpose: spread the Eri's fandom in the world. Everybody should love and praise our Ooujo (Princess)."

Ezgif - Easily (hehe) edit gifs in your browser.

Final Fantasy VII Citadel - A very extensive Final Fantasy VII fansite.

Fire Emblem Shrine - Fire Emblem fansite that contains guides for all of the games and an inactive forum.

Fancaps - Great repository of anime screenshots and also great for getting pictures of a character while avoiding spoilers since you can look through the episodes you've seen without going further (so long as you stay a page or so back)

Fanlore - Website dedicated to, well, lore about fandoms over the years. I particularly like reading it's articles about events that occured in the fansite sphere.

FinalGear.com - Fanforum for the television shows Grand Tour and Top Gear, as well as subforums dedicated to discussing cars in general.

Flags of the World - "Flags of the World (FOTW), founded in 1994, is the Internet’s largest site devoted to vexillology (the study of flags). Here you can read more than 86,000 pages about flags and view more than 203,000 images of flags of countries, organizations, states, territories, districts and cities, both past and present."

FlyingOmelette.com - Personal website of an avid video game player that has wrote a lot of interesting reviews.

Fourfa - Informative site about the history of emo music and other things associated with it. Very useful for clearing up misconceptions of what the label actually means. Make sure to check the links page (from archive.org) if you want to go down the rabbithole even further!

Fighters Generation - Huge database dedicated to chronicling fighting games and their characters as well

FootballIdiot - Forum containing information on installing and modding Madden 08, the final Madden game released on PC natively.

freemediaheckyeah - "The largest collection of free stuff on the internet!"

Fullmetal-Alchemist.com - Fullmetal Alchemist fansite containing a detailed synopsis, character profiles and other cool goodies.

Gifcities - Extremely useful not only for finding authentic old school images/gifs, but also helps you discover sites since every image links back to the site it was found on. Indespensible resource for any webmaster, greatly aided in the construction of my website.

GinEiDen.net - French Legend of the Galactic Heroes fansite that's been online since at least 2007.

Gineipaedia - Wiki that covers and documents historic events in the Legend of the Galactic Heroes timeline.

Girlswithcupnoodlesontheirheads.com - The greatest website of all-time.

Glitter Graphics - Huge repository of old school graphics. Contains a little bit of everything.

Glorious Trainwrecks - "Glorious Trainwrecks is about bringing back the spirit of postcardware, circa 1993. It's about throwing a bunch of random crap into your game and keeping whatever sticks. "

Grandprix2.de - Fansite and forum dedicated to DOS racing game Grand Prix 2.

GTA San Andreas - Extensive fansite for GTA San Andreas

Guardian Angels - Xenogears fansite including a complete plot timeline and some interesting analysis of said plot as well.

Gundam Project - Vast Gundam fansite containing in-depth information about the universe.

Halopedia - "Halopedia is a comprehensive wiki and encyclopedia dedicated to the Halo video game franchise from Microsoft, with 16,270 articles."

Hardcore Gaming 101 - A site dedicated to covering obscure, niche games. You can find a lot of interesting titles through here.

Horror.com - A website dedicated to horror films and other such media. Online since 1994 and has a somewhat active forum.

HowLongToBeat - Though this site is quite well known for containing lengths for any game under the sun, few are aware that it also has useful functionality as a MAL equivalent for game lists. Definitely my favorite of all the ones I've tried in the niche, lots of statistics and a very extensive database.

Hunter X Hunter RPG - Hunter x Hunter roleplaying forum that still sees some activity.

HTML Text Generator - Automatically adds paragraph tags to text instead of you having to place all of them manually.

Initial D World - An Initial D fansite that also hosts the largest Initial D forum on the web.

IronMouse - Site with shrines dedicated to a wide variety of video game characters. Contains lots of 2000s fanart in them as well.

jinkaku.org - Collective containing fanlistings and extremely well-designed fanshrines for mostly video game and anime related topics.

Judy Blume on the Web - Personal website of author Judy Blume which contains writing-related content and articles.

Kanzenshuu - Website for hardcore Dragon Ball fans, containing lots of information about the series. Also has a forum, as well as a wiki.

Kingdom Hearts Insider - Fansite dedicated to the Kingdom Hearts series that contains a semi-active forum. Fun to browse through.

Kitty Corp Meow Mix Forums - Forum dedicated to modding Super Smash Bros, mainly Brawl.

Koshka's Kingdom - Website containing information on ASD as well as a more personal side pertaining to the webmaster's interests.

Landchad.net - "This is LandChad.net, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords by showing them how to setup websites, email servers, chat servers and everything in between."

LinkLane.net - A still-maintained link directory that has been online since 2004.

List-Me.Com - "A free non-elite website directory"

Lemmy's Land - A Mario fansite dedicated in large part to the koopalings though it contains fanfiction and fanart of other characters as well. It was the reason that I created my first personal webpage back in 2012 and a major inspiration for this site as well, this is where it all began for me.

like-knives.org - Web domain containing various fanlistings, shrines and also a photography archive.

lost-boy.org - An extensive collective of well-designed shrines and fanlistings.

Lost Media Wiki - A website dedicated to chronicling & restoring media that has been lost to time

Lovely Designs - A wonderful graphics page that remains online many years later, preserving the memories of radical 2000s gfx.

Let's Play Archive - Website that archives lets plays for various video games; predominantly LPs that were posted on SomethingAwful.

Magistream - Roleplay forum that takes place in a fairly extensive fantasy world.

Mango Reviews - Website of a couple of people who reviewed graphics pages. Provides great insight in to what people valued in both web design and graphics in the 2000s, as well as some humor in how merciless it is.

Mario Kart 64 Player's Page - A website where Mario Kart players submit their times and battle against one another in the rankings. Though originally for Mario Kart 64, it contains pages for all of the other games as well.

Mär Heaven Journey - Fansite for the anime Märchen Awakens Romance. Also hosts many well-designed fanlistings.

MarioKartWii.com - Forum for Mario Kart Wii gecko codes and other hacks for usage in emulators.

Megatokyo - Webcomic that's been continously updated since 2000. Has other quirks as well, such as a forum and a designated rant section.

Minitokyo - Website containing official art & scans predominantly from old school anime as well as wallpapers from that time period

MKLeaderboards - Updated Time Trial leaderboards for Mario Kart Wii, 7 and 8 Deluxe.

Mkwrs - Website containing updated world records for every track in every Mario Kart game. Make sure to check the links out on the sidebar; here's a real cool collection of world record videos.

Mobygames - A vast video game database containing extensive credits for every game as well as promo art and other information that's hard to find for just about any game.

Mugen Archive - Huge MUGEN character repository with a pretty active forum as well.

Musicgenretree.org - Project attempting to chronicle a metric ton of genres all on one chart while also providing recommended albums to help get into them.

MusicWeb Archive - A vast music review website primarily dedicated to the classical genre.

My Abandonware - Huge repository of old software and video games that have been in limbo for many years.

Myrient - The best place to find video game ROMs since Vimm got raided.

MySmilies - Vast collection of emoticons/smilies used on older websites.

Nathan's Toasty Technology Page - Website containing information about retro software, especially web browsers and GUI. Contains a fascinating section on the anti-Internet Explorer sentiment that was present online in the 90.s

Nightbringer.net - "Welcome to Nightbringer.net, The Darkstrike Network, the collective, domain, and what I like to call the home on the web of Todd."

Nightsintodreams.com - Fansite for the cult-classic "Nights Into Dreams" video game.

Niko-Niko.net - "Welcome to Niko-Niko.Net, my name is Emi, and this is the archive of the various anime and manga fandom pages I made in the mid 90's-early 00's"

Ninrankings - A vast ghost database containing pre-CTGP Mario Kart Wii times. You can find tons of old world records & worldwide top 10 times from the olden days here.

Noclip.website - View classic 3D video game levels in HD through your browser window.

NORAD Santa - See Santa's location in real time! Useful for knowing when to get to bed lest you not be brought any presents.

Operation Sports - The most active forum for sports video games, contains lots of mods and interesting information.

Osamu Sato Archives - Website dedicated to preserving the works of Japanese artist, musician and game designer Osamu Sato.

Otaku World -"For the Best of Anime and Manga on the Web"

Panzer Dragoon Legacy - Panzer Dragoon fansite. Includes lots of goodies such as detailed official art collections (wonderful considering the art for the games was drawn by the great Moebius) and a forum.

Paradigm City - Fansite dedicated to the anime "The Big O". Singlehandedly convinced me to watch the show at some point in the future.

Paradox Wikis - The best public source of information for Paraodx grand strategy games. Contains invaluable information as well as guides for playing as nations in the games.

Piero Scaruffi's Knowledge Base - Homepage of music critic Pierro Scaruffi.

Pimp My Profile - Old-school website that was popular on MySpace. Still contains lots of custom CSS that could be useful on modern revival sites like SpaceHey.

Planet Dreamcast - Fansite and former news center for the late Sega Dreamcast. Hosted many game-related fansites in the past. Still online but it's actual content is dead on the current version, most of it can be viewed through the internet archive though.

Planet Minecraft - Long-lived aggregator for fan-made content on Minecraft, especially skins and mods.

Planet Namek - A well known and influential Dragon Ball fansite. I especially like the little Red Ribbon rank tree it has, never knew that there was an established hierarchy.

Pootato.org - A website which was designed to aid beginner web designers and graphic artists. Contains lots of borders and brushes (some of which can still be downloaded) especially for use with graphical design.

Pretendo Network - "Pretendo is a free and open source replacement for Nintendo's servers for both the 3DS and Wii U, allowing online connectivity for all, even after the original servers are discontinued"

Pro Football Researchers - Website dedicated to reporting and chronicling old football history. You can read most of the articles for free and it contains one of a kind interviews and information that you can't really find anywhere else.

PSO-World.com - Long-lived Phantasy Star Online fansite with a forum that's been online since 2000.

ROBLOX Forum Archive - A complete archive of the ROBLOX forums made before they were taken down in 2017.

RetroGameTalk - The new location of CDRomance. You must make an account to download, but it contains all of the same pre-patched ISOs that CDR did. Also has a forum.

Reverie - Extremely well-designed graphics page containing resources on web design as well. One of my favorites.

Riehlthing.com - Personal Website of Anthony Rihel containing resources on generation 5 consoles as they were releasing.

Robert Christgau - Homepage of music critic Robert Christgau.

Rolodex.free.fr - Fansite dedicated to the band At The Drive-In, chronicling all of their releases, interviews from band members and more.

Romhacking.net - The best place to find romhacks.

Roy Sye's Personal Web Page - A webpage dedicated to chronicling ancient football history. Has links to lots of other sites on the topic too, such as this Pottsville Maroons fansite.

RPGClassics - Site containing many webshrines with useful information on JRPGs.

RPGCodex - Very extensive database and an active forum pertaining primarily to WRPGs.

Rural Indexing Project - Website dedicated to documenting small towns in America.

Rurouni Kenshin Network - Rurouni Kenshin fansite with great design, fanfics, and lots of information about the show.

Serious Fucking Business - Wiki detailing the historic results of saimoe and other such waifu wars.

Salvaged.nu - Site that recovers 2000s-era web graphics from the internet archive and reuploads them for archival purposes.

Sega Retro - Wiki cataloging all games and hardware related to Sega, from the Genesis to obscure arcade boards.

Serebii.net - An absolutely gigantic Pokemon fansite.

Shenmue Dojo - Fansite dedicated to the Shenmue game series, most known for it's forum but also has lots of other goodies. Includes an extremely detailed history of Shenmue fansites which is a fascinating read

Shin Force - Multi purpose website dedicated primarily to gaming but also has anime reviews and even a page dedicated to the Cleveland national air show of all things. Online since 1999.

Signature Bar - Though most of the images sadly were not archived, this page contains some tutorials, information, programs and links about making graphics.

Skullknight.net - "Welcome to Skullknight.NET, a Berserk fan community that started in 2000 and has remained the definitive destination for discussions about the series ever since."

Sky Chaser - A still-updated personal website of a storm chaser that chronicles his adventures into hurricanes and other systems as well.

Smashboards - "Welcome to Smashboards, the world's largest Super Smash Brothers community! Over 250,000 Smash Bros. fans from around the world have come to discuss these great games in over 19 million posts!"

SMW Central - "SMW Central is the largest ROM hacking community on the internet, and the gathering place for all the resources you need to create your own ROM hack. We offer a large selection of completed hacks as well, ready for you to play! Traditionally SMW Central focuses on hacking Super Mario World, but over the years we've collected a ton of resources and hacks involving other games, too."

Smooth Yu Yu Hakusho - A Yu Yu Hakusho fansite containing the usual fansite fare alongside a distinct and memorable layout.

Shadow Hearts Infoholic - Shadow Hearts fansite that contains a lot of information pertaining to the series. Last updated fairly recently in 2022.

Shmups Forum - Forum dedicated to Shoot 'Em Up games. Lots of good resources and tips for beginners and professionals alike.

Skies of Arcadia World - Skies of Arcadia fansite with lots of helpful information about the game. Very nearly was going to style my UI after this but felt it'd be too derivative; awesome, unique webpage design here.

Sonofthesouth.net - "You Found It! The WEB's Most Extensive Collection of Free Civil war Resources, and Over 10,000 Pages of Pure Civil War Gold!""

Southern Fried Common Sense - An interesting blog that I enjoy reading through. Contains lengthy articles pertaining to civil war battlefields and landmarks as well as American History in general. Has a ton of links that pertain to these topics as well.

SpaceBattles - A long-lived, active forum mainly pertaining to nerdy hobbies.

Spirit Detective - Yu Yu Hakusho fansite with extensive guides on all of the episodes, battles and games in the series.

Sports-Reference - A truly vast database of statistics for every major North American sport.

Starmen.net - Extensive and long-lived Earthbound/Mother fansite with a very in-depth walkthrough and many other resources as well.

Storm2k - Active forum pertaining predominantly to Hurricanes, though it has subforums for other kinds of weather as well.

Storm Highway - Long running personal website of storm chaser Dan Robinson.

Suikoden Urgent and Informational Kibbutz Original Xperience - Fansite for the Suikoden game series.

Swing Music Net - An extensive website covering swing jazz musicians and the history of the genre.

Switch.hacks.guide - The best guide for hacking and homebrewing your Switch.

System Shock 1 Fansite Hub - "Here you will find links to all the major System Shock 1 sites on the web. It is our hope that your browse here is as pleasant as possible. Thank you, and goodnight."

The Big O Archive - "This website is a repository for all things Big O, scanned in the highest quality and presented to those who wish to see, read, and learn more about this classic neo-noir, mecha, retrofutirism production by Studio Sunrise."

The Dreamcast Junkyard - Long-lived news site covering the Sega Dreamcast. Contains many informative articles about homebrew and other happenings in the Dreamcast scene.

The Fanlistings - The oldest hub for fanlistings on the internet. Online since 2000, and remains the largest database for fanlistings.

TFArchive - Forum for Transformers fans.

The Jaded Network - A vast array of primarily anime/manga related graphics.

The Kart 64 Bible - Essential reading for all aspiring Mario Kart time trialers.

THEM Anime Reviews - Long-running and still updated anime review site that's been online since 1996

The Mushroom Kingdom - A still-maintained fansite for the Super Mario series.

The Mystical Forest Zone - Fantastic repository of sprites for the Sonic The Hedgehog games. Was a favorite of sprite animators back in the 2010s.

The Old School PC Font Resource - Large hub for easily downloading countless retro PC fonts

theOtaku.com - Collection of old school fanart and wallpapers for anime. I love the e-cards in particular.

TheRPGSite - A fairly active and free-speech friendly forum dedicated to tabletop RPGs.

The Shadowlands - "Hello and welcome to The Shadowlands. Since 1994, The Shadowlands has been dedicated to informing and enlightening visitors on such topics as Ghosts and hauntings, mysterious creatures such as Bigfoot and Sea Serpents, UFOs and Aliens, and many other unsolved mysteries."

The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut - Website dedicated to the colonial history of the US State of Connecticut.

The Spriters Resource - Huge collection of sprites for a vast amount of consoles and games.

The Swedish Punk/HC Archive - A site dedicated to archiving and chronicling Swedish hardcore punk bands.

The W3C Markup Validator - Quickly see just how horrifically broken your website is with this page that checks for HTML errors.

Through the Looking Glass - Website and forum dedicated to Looking Glass games that's been online since 1996.

Tropical Tidbits - Site with lots of data about active hurricanes, especially recon data and future model runs.

Tsuki-kan - "Welcome to Tsuki-kan, a small fansite containing bits and pieces of information on all things TYPE-MOON."

TWC Classics - "TWC Classics is the oldest and largest website devoted to The Weather Channel. Created during the summer of 1997, TWC Classics has amassed a large collection of audio, video, images, and information."

Unitarium Time Calculator - Very useful for calculating low amounts of time, especially milliseconds. I frequently use this for calculating lap splits in MKW.

UROULETTE - Website that takes you to a random page. Also has a vast link directory that randomizes on every page refresh.

VampireFreaks - Website dedicated to people who loved gothic fashion and were generally into that whole vampire craze in the 2000s. Still online but is nothing more than a clothing store nowadays.

VideoGame Avatars - "This is a collection of FREE AVATARS based on video games (mostly from console RPGs and adventure games). New icons are added regularly so don't forget to visit our pages!"

VideoGameGeek - Website that has list functionality similar to that of MAL. Has a forum and allows for cool profile customization with features like the microbadges.

Vimm's Lair - ROM Website dedicated to preserving the classics. Though it was sadly raided a while back, I still feel the need to put it here because it still has a lot of files and served me well for many years. Fantastic UI design as well.

Waifu2x - Image upscaler, useful for old-school anime renders.

Weathernerds - Similar to tropical tidbits in purpose but contains some tools that the former doesn't such as additional radar imagery.

Web Badges World - Large collection of 80x15 web badges.

Wiby.me - Search engine that only indexes web 1.0 sites.

Wiibrew.org - "Welcome to WiiBrew, a wiki dedicated to homebrew on the Nintendo Wii. We have 1,704 articles."

Wii.hacks.guide - The best guide for hacking and homebrewing your Wii.

Wii-Homebrew.com - Forum dedicated to Wii modding and homebrew.

Wiimmfi - Custom, fan-hosted servers for playing Wii games online. You can also view statistics and the like here.

Winamp Skin Museum - A huge Winamp Skins Repository.

WinClassic - Forum dedicated to tweaking modern Windows so as to resemble older versions.

Wizard101Central - Wizard101 website containing a detailed wiki and a fairly active forum.

Xbox-HQ.com - Website dedicated particularly to Xbox homebrew but also has fansite-esque content outside of that as well.

Xenogears: The Nisan Sanctuary - An extensive and fleshed out Xenogears fansite that's been online since 1999.

YouChew - A now-defunct forum which was the main hub for YouTube Poop discussion back in the day. You can still view it's forum archives, which contain resources on YTPing.

z2 - Website that catalogs ZZT games.