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Design

• Mark Coleran's website – FUI pioneer. Has a great portfolio to browse. Note: won't function via HTTPS.

  Gone. You can view the old galleries with various levels of success via Wayback Machine.

  • Mark's Behance page – Lots of futuristic design goodies.
• Web Design Museum
• ToastyTech GUI Gallery – screenshots of operating systems ranging from Alto Executive to Windows 11.
• GUIdebook – similar to above, but far more in-depth (and last updated in 2006).
• A guide for creating classic Firefox themes – requires SeaMonkey, Pale Moon, or similar.
• Window Managers for X – an old site showcasing various window managers and desktop environments for the X Window System.

Software Development

• Bit twiddling hacks
• Learn modern C++
• C/C++ reference
• Learn Rust
• Apple Developer Documentation Archive
• Command line references

Blogs

• Starring the Computer – real computers used in movies and on TV.
• Typeset In The Future – a blog documenting futuristic typography in various movies.
• VGJunk – reviews of (mostly very silly) video games.
• Chris Covell's personal website/blog
• Matt Might's blog

Operating Systems

THE LINUX KERNEL IS COMPROMISED. AVOID USING IT IF YOU CAN!

• Haiku – an OS that takes the desktop user seriously.
• OpenBSD
• ravynOS – the closest you can get to open-source macOS, excluding Darwin.
• ReactOS – a free and open-source Windows clone.
• AROS – for Amiga enthusiasts.
• Redox OS – a modern microkernel OS. Worth keeping an eye on.
• helloSystem – a macOS alternative for old-school Mac users. Based on FreeBSD.

Humour

• 27B/6 – the quintessence of Australia.
• Origin of the ":-)" emoticon
• In the Beginning was the Command Line

Video Games

• Emulation General Wiki – an in-depth wiki of emulators, including feature comparisons.
• The Cutting Room Floor – documenting unused video game content.
• Unseen64 – documenting video games that never saw the light of day.
• noclip – explore the worlds of old 3D video games.

Uncategorised

• Project Gutenberg – public domain books.
  • Project Gutenberg Australia
• Macintosh Garden – for your archaic Mac software needs.
• Khronos Group – responsible for many open standards, such as OpenGL.
• Atari Archives – lots of very technical Atari goodies.
• Warren Robinett's website – mainly known for Adventure (Atari 2600). Worked on some interesting VR projects in the 80s and 90s.
• N-World Online Reference – for an old 3D software suite most famously used for Super Mario 64.
• Textfiles – a glimpse into an increasingly distant past.
• SGI Depot – information about Silicon Graphics computers.
• Personality Assessment System – a very in-depth personality test. Reveals more than the MBTI.
• Fly around a raytraced Cornell box
• Aminet – Amiga software. One of the oldest software repositories in the world.
• Nintendo's open-source software
• The Analytical Engine – Documentation and emulators for Charles Babbage's computer.
• Watch the first Star Wars movie as an ASCII animation – Note: I do not endorse Star Wars in any way, shape or form.
• macOS wallpaper archive
• Project Euler – maths-based programming puzzles. Originally part of mathschallenge.net.
• Learn Dvorak
• Zen koans
• ChibiAkumas assembly tutorials
• Australia's BOM website, pre-redesign
• Free Computer Books
• Martin "nocash" Korth's website – of NO$GBA fame and more.