Web Finds & Curiosities
Core topics and current thinking
4 entries
- Unusual destinations: Odd, charming, or hard-to-classify websites that reward curiosity and offer more than a quick novelty click.
- Useful web resources: Clever tools, reference pages, creative utilities, and practical finds that are worth bookmarking for later use.
- Early-web culture: Context on BBS communities, chatrooms, online roleplaying, and the sharing habits that shaped web discovery.
- Recommendation judgment: Guidance on evaluating strange or unfamiliar websites before sharing them with readers, students, or colleagues.
- Internet curiosities: Essays on why weird links, forgotten pages, and playful experiments still matter in a more polished web.
Navigating the modern web often feels like walking through a series of identical, polished storefronts, making the discovery of independent, idiosyncratic spaces all the more vital. Preserving these digital artifacts requires more than just dropping a URL into a forgotten chat window; it demands a deliberate approach to personal archiving so that a brilliant, obscure tool or a beautifully weird essay remains accessible long after its original host goes offline.
To build a resilient personal archive of these discoveries, set up a plain-text markdown file named web-curiosities.md in your primary notes folder. When you find a site worth keeping, create a new entry with the date, the original URL, and an immediate snapshot link generated through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Below the links, write a two-sentence summary of what the site actually does, followed by three specific tags—such as #utility, #early-web-aesthetic, or #typography-reference—so you can instantly retrieve the resource months later when you need exactly that kind of inspiration.