Web Directory

A curated collection of interesting links.

Backports

Links related to backporting or maintaining old OSes / devices / etc.

  • Legacy Update
    Legacy Update provides optional and recommended updates to Windows versions that have reached the end of their lifecycle - specially for Windows XP and Windows 7
  • Thorium
    A Chromium-based browser compatible with older OS. Personally tested on Windows XP and 7 and works flawlessly in all webpages I've visited. Definitely a must if you are looking forward to backport to abandonware
  • TrashNet
    A website dedicated to the development of hardware and software for old PCs
  • soggi's BIOS & Firmware Page
    Page with many resources made by a single developer for adding better support to old devices

Blogs

Blogs or webs with periodic posts

  • sizeofcat
    Blog from an anon. Posts are mostly about retro computing, digital minimalism and more. Pretty interesting

Books

Books or list of books based on my interests

  • Introduction to Algorithms, Fourth Edition
    Book by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein - The MIT Press, 2022 A comprehensive update of the leading algorithms text, with new material on matchings in bipartite graphs, online algorithms, machine learning, and other topics. Some books on algorithms are rigorous but incomplete; others cover masses of material but lack rigor. Introduction to Algorithms uniquely combines rigor and comprehensiveness. It covers a broad range of algorithms in depth, yet makes their design and analysis accessible to all levels of readers, with self-contained chapters and algorithms in pseudocode. Since the publication of the first edition, Introduction to Algorithms has become the leading algorithms text in universities worldwide as well as the standard reference for professionals.

Communities

Places to share common interests with other users

  • /g/
    Definitely a MUST
  • Lainchan's /Ω/
    Similar to /g/ although Lainchan has other tech-focused boards as well that you might wanna check out

DIY

Do-It-Yourself stuff

  • ./watch
    A DIY watch - electronics, software and hardware

Funny

The art of making you laugh

  • GifCities
    Collection of Y2K, old-school GIFs. Maintained by the guys at archive.org
  • Happy Canteen
    Livestream from cat feeders. Possibly from Japan (?)

Other Directories

Directories hosted in other sites

  • tin-foil.net Bookmarks 2025
    Bookmarks from the owner of tinfoil-hat.net. Contains multiple webpages which consists from tools to download sites. Very well categorized

Utilities

Stuff that can be useful for IT people in general

  • Duck-UI
    A frontend for running queries on CSV, JSON, Parquet files

Windows

Content related to Windows

  • Thorium - Windows XP
    Alex313031's Thorium itself contains lots of resources for old OSes. In this case, this page about Windows XP will contain everything you need to make it work nowadays.
  • Windows XP Source Code
    Famously taken from the breach suffered by Microsoft some years ago, although it's not complete. Check communities like OpenXP if you wanna see what people are up to with it