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Here's a list I keep of bookmarks consisting of website snapshots, or overlooked websites with easily-searchable older material.

Started on 2024-05-30.

Last updated on 2024-10-27.

Meta (bookmarks of bookmarks)

(Apr 2001) - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8319/bookmark.html (mentions SuperMemo)
https://bbsdirectory.neocities.org/#sectionOekaki

Blogs

ADHD

(May 1997) - https://web.archive.org/web/20220813211720/http://adhdnews.com/archives.htm
(Apr 2000) - https://web.archive.org/web/20000417214552/https://www.fenichel.com/teacher.shtml
(Aug 2002) - https://web.archive.org/web/20020805001335/http://www.addhelpline.org/software.htm
- (Mar 2001) - https://web.archive.org/web/20010305074910/http://www.biof.com/brainbuilder_overview.html
- (Nov 2001) - https://web.archive.org/web/20011108080103/www.biof.com/soundsmart.html
(Dec 2003) - https://web.archive.org/web/20240531045734/https://www.jazz2online.com/articles/227/about-adhd/
- (Apr 2002) - https://web.archive.org/web/20020414044951/http://www.chadd.org/fs/fs1.htm
- (Jun 2003) - https://web.archive.org/web/20030608080118/http://www.help4adhd.org/

Art

(1997) - Fredart
(2000) - Retro Game Oekaki Vault
(2000) - Deadpanda
(2001) - The Oekaki Archive
(2001) - Oekaki Central (early URL
(2002) - Fanart Central
(2005) - E-Shuushuu

Brain stuff

(Nov 1996) - https://web.archive.org/web/19991109223743/http://www.mindtools.com/

Desktop backgrounds

(1999) - Anime Wallpapers.com
(2001) - Phantasy Star Online fan wallpapers
(2004) - Minitokyo

Fan sites

(1995) - Anime Web Turnpike
(Apr 1997) - https://www.edoropolis.org/violet/ (early URL)
(Aug 1998) - https://www.omoikane.com/
(2000) - PSO (Phantasy Star Online) World (early URL)
- Phantasy Star Online fan art (many of them are reuploaded from the older site, which goes back to 2001-2002?)
(2001) - https://web.archive.org/web/20030319123546/http://rurihoshino.com/ (originally https://web.archive.org/web/20011208113813/http://www.rurisue.com/)

Miscellaneous

(Oct 1996) - https://web.archive.org/web/19961220212307/http://www.asksam.com/

Kiwix before AI slop

For context, Kiwix is a useful piece of software that allows you to download and view Wikipedia articles offline, alongside others such as Wiktionary, StackExchange, iFixIt, etc. Its archives are usually up-to-date and older archives are deleted to save on costs.

ChatGPT's release in late November of 2022 resulted in a flood of bland garbage polluting the web for SEO, and many are still unhappy with our data being used, without permission or compensation, to train glorified, overhyped auto-complete models.

Some form of slop existed prior with the release of GPT-3 in June 2020, and GPT-2 in February 2019, but not to this level.

I was inspired by a couple of Reddit posts, so I wanted to search what was available on the Internet Archive. You can do the same by searching title:(wikipedia_en_all), for example.

Here's a few of my own interest. Figured it'd fit in with the rest of my bookmarks, and my cut-off points are ChatGPT's release:

Wikipedia

December 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_0.8
November 2020: https://archive.org/details/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2020-11.zim
January 2021 (no pictures): https://archive.org/details/wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2021-01.zim

Wiktionary

July 2020: https://archive.org/details/wiktionary_en_all_maxi_2020-07.zim
July 2020 (no pictures): https://archive.org/details/wiktionary_en_all_nopic_2020-07.zim

Project Gutenberg (is this even needed for Gutenberg?)

July 2020 (English-only): https://archive.org/details/gutenberg_en_all_2020-07.zim
July 2020 (all languages): https://archive.org/details/gutenberg_mul_all_2020-07.zim

StackExchange

Retrocomputing (May 2020): https://archive.org/details/retrocomputing.stackexchange.com_en_all_2020-05.zim