The Meat Cave
Below is my personal archive of interesting stuff I have found on the internet, as well as personal summaries and reviews of each site. It is for my memory, as well as enjoyment by whoever finds my site.
This is a very goofy version of windows that runs in the browser. Its full of silly applications, games, and videos for you to mess around with. It also has a couple of classic funny windows viruses, as well as some documents to look at.
A slightly less goofy version of windows that also runs in the browser. This one is a bit more serious, but still has some silly stuff to play around with.
A little gaming news site run by one person. I quite like the old-fashioned feel, as well as the lack of excessive ads. I go to this site daily to see if anything interesting has happened in the gaming space.
This is a digital museum focusing on pocket computers from the 80's. Vintage hardware is a personal interest of mine, and the site has all sorts of interesting computers that have otherwise been lost to time (I mean, have you ever even heard of the "Quasar PC-912UE"?). It has clearly been made with a lot of love, and I like the simple but cute ui.
This seems to be an old site for an American witches' coven. Not that novel, but I do like the gifs and styling of the site. Plus, if you find niche religions interesting(I do), there seems to be some resources on tarot reading and spirituality listed.
An adorable blog run by some elderly folk, detailing their life and travels around Loweswater, UK. I find it sweet and kinda uplifting, and I like that the site seems to have been going since around 2006. As well, it is a treasure trove of photos and events from a little town. I kinda want to archive the site, as I feel it has some historical value.
This website is an information site for a very obscure programming language called Ante. I don't know enough about it to give much information, but I liked it from a learning perspective.
God(heehee), I do not know what to make of this strange website. It seems to be a personal blog for the weirdest person I've ever seen. URL aside, he seems to be some sort of philosopher concerned with human evolution, or something along those lines. As well, his listed "intelligent humor" are absolutely terrible. I can't tell if this site is serious or very biting satire, but maybe that makes it better. He also has a slew of other sites listed that provide some other interesting rabbitholes.
An archive of software for the Macintosh Plus and its emulator Mini vMac. Very niche, but there's a wealth of interesting old software, and an emulator to run this software on modern machines. I haven't tried anything listed here yet, but when I do I'll update this review.
This site is fascinating. It seems to be a hub for computer science/philosophy essays and books, created in 1993. It is an excellent time capsule of the 90's, and there is a ridiculous amounts of stuff listed in the site index. I don't think I can look through it all, but I recommend that you try.
I do love my neocities, as you'll soon see. This one is hysterical; it can only be described as "visual noise" and is entirely in spanish. I speak and read spanish, so navigation for me hasn't been an issue, but if you aren't fluent, the site can be readily translated by google. A very funny find.
What the fuck even is this? The site describes itself as a band, a perspective, and a website, and it even has a sort of "roadmap" to how TagYerIt should be experienced. I highly recommend devoting some time to this, as it is quite a ridiculous and entertaining timesink.
This site, as the URL implies, is a cooking site. It aims to provide recipes without the bloat and ads of popular recipe sites, and takes recipe submissions through github. I quite like simple sites that serve one purpose, so I've put it here.
The home site of the apparent world's first dinosaur skeleton, the Hadrosaurus foulkii, discovered in 1858. I love this kind of site, simple and serves only to promote this one dinosaur fossil in Haddonfield, New Jersey. It is a lovely little time capsule, and provides some interesting information about the town and the fossil.
Another archive, this site seems to document mainly computer software, like early windows, macos, and linux, but it has some silly sections. The information here seems to actually be somewhat recent, as the last site update was in November of 2020, but there is also some very old articles for perusal. I haven't explored it thoroughly, but I think its interesting enough.
What exactly is hyperborea? God if I know, this is one of those "baffling" websites where it is difficult to discern the actual purpose of it. I think(think) it is a site detailing someone's personal philosophy and thoughts on spirituality, reality, etc. But, it also feels like a digital gravestorm of sorts, as the creator is reported as having died in 2000.
Edit: so it turns out that "hyperborea" is a white supremacist philosopical/religious concept. As a result, I've removed the URL, as I think things connected to white supremacy have no place on my site.
This site is a lovely little list of FOSS software for various creative tasks. There isn't that much to it, but resources like this are precious.
A tad more meta choice, this site is some else's archive of interesting websites. I haven't yet had the time to look through it, but I already really like the aesthetic and lack of ads. Once I've gone through it, I will likely post here whatever I really like from their lists.
This is a very small search engine that describes itself better than I can: "This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of". I've been using this search engine to look for unique sites. I quite like that the random function lets you choose what website you want to go to, as it gives a tad more control of where you go.
Another small search engine focused on delivering content from the smaller side of the internet. This site also does a great job of finding interesting web sites, and it also has a random button that will take you to a random site, and so far I've use this button to find a few of the websites listed here.
This site is a small blog focused on building small sailboats. Not that much to it, but I like its focus on diy and not relying on commercialized routes for hobbies and entertainment, even for something like sailing. As well, the site sells cds made by some of the friends of the site owner, which I find very cool.