Link Directory
If the internet is an ocean, than this page is the torn-off margin of an old, weathered map.
Utility
https://search.marginalia.nu/ - A search engine that filters out pages with heavy SEO.
https://wiby.me/ - A search engine that filters out pages that feel too 'new'. Index is grown by user submission.
https://boardreader.com/ - A search engine that only indexes community discussion (ex. forums).
https://refdesk.com/ - An ancient, lightweight 'startpage'-type website.
https://ichi.moe/ - Splits Japanese sentences up into their constituent morphemes.
https://litterbox.catbox.moe/ - Temporary file hosting service, doesn't strip metadata. The corallary service (catbox) says it's permanent, but I've seen some that had 404'd, so I don't trust it that much.
https://glyphdrawing.club/ - A modular art tool based on oldschool ASCII art programs. Useful for font design.
http://www.bitsavers.org/ - An archive of documentation related to older computing.
https://westonruter.github.io/ipa-chart/keyboard/ - A keyboard for IPA symbols.
Educational/Interesting
https://www.youtube.com/@AncientAmericas - A very good channel covering the history of the precolombian Americas. Genuinely fantastic.
https://schaechter.asmblog.org/ - A blog covering the bleeding edge of biology research, with a focus on microbiology.
https://scottaaronson.blog/ - A blog covering many areas of computer science.
https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/ - A blog covering new developments in the mathematics community, especially mathematical physics.
https://download.tuxfamily.org/openmathdep/ - A small repository of mathematics textbooks.
https://conwaylife.com/wiki/ - A wiki for things related to cellular automata. Also has an associated set of forums.
https://cp4space.hatsya.com/ - A high-quality mathematics blog with a greater-than-average focus on recreational maths.
http://textfiles.com/ - An archive of text files from 1980 to 1995.
https://specevo.jcink.net/ - A forum for speculative evolution.
https://www.spacetimetravel.org/wurmlochflug - An absolutely wonderful visualization of what a wormhole would look like.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/ - A news website specifically dedicated to covering recent developments in mathematics and the sciences. Probably the best of its kind.
Other
http://hatukiyura.sakura.ne.jp/ - 葉月ゆら's personal website.
https://worldbuildingpasta.blogspot.com/2021/11/an-apple-pie-from-scratch-part-vi.html - A worldbuilding resource on how to run a climate simulation of your world.
https://parahumans.wordpress.com/ - A web serial about a teenage girl with superpowers. Not a YA despite first appearences. Read up through arc 8; if you don't like it then, you probably never will.
https://orionsarm.com/ - A hard sci-fi worldbuilding project (self-classified as a space opera). Basically a not-wiki. Also has short stories, but those are less interesting.
https://minimos11.neocities.org/ - I like the aesthetic this has. Also links to a self-hosted website from the same guy.
WTF
https://watervhs.neocities.org/ - Some intriguing decisions were made in regards to page layout. Page source is really strange as well. Otherwise pretty boring actually.
