NEOCITIES GEMS

CAWSMIC ENTITY
https://cawsmicentity.neocities.org/

Run by talented artist and 3D modeller Kepler, this site is chock full of personality, brilliant art and charming presentation - I love to visit their site now and again. They also like Rain World, so that earns a few extra brownie points from me.

COD3CR34TUR3!!
https://codecreature.neocities.org/

Run by Prax and Emery, this place has a worm racing game, an archive of cat graphics from the 90s and a few gags hidden across its home page - I'm looking forward to seeing how this one turns out :3

concon.soy - The only website on the internet
https://concon.soy/

Get accustommed to the site of Mister Chief - you're gonna have his wide grin plastered on every page you see on this site. On another note this is place not only houses Connor's blog but also serves as a directory for all sorts of free software :)

RINGS AND DIRECTORIES

The ACDS Webring
https://wiregrrrl.github.io/ACDSring/

A collection of websites made by fans of Deltarune Analyst and Game Developer Andrew Cunningham (Youtube) (Invidious), this ring all sorts of personalities, creative works, homestuck knock-offs and a surprising lack of Toby Fox brainrot.

The Furryring
https://furryring.neocities.org/userlist/

Organised by Lenny, this webring contains over 150 websites, each of which being visually charming and creatively inspiring in their own ways, all of them being created by furballs across the globe. Go check 'em out!! :3

The Cycle Ring
https://soapfriendo.neocities.org/rwring/

Organised by Soap, This webring contains a small handful of websites made by fans of THE BEST GAME OF ALL TIME, Rain World. Hyperfixations and blatant bias aside, there are a good few sites here that, once again, are an absolute joy to visit.

FOR BROWSING ON FOSSILS

The Old Net
http://theoldnet.com/

Run by highly-experienced computer scientist Richard Bettridge, This website not only has a bustling community of folks that love the old web, but there's also plenty of software AND hardware available here to get vintage machines back on the internet.

Wiby Search Engine
http://wiby.me/

A search engine made specifically for browsing the old web and indie web alike, allowing you to find all sorts of hobbyist websites no matter if you're using Internet Explorer 5 or the latest version of Librewolf.

Tigerden Web Services
http://tigerden.com/

Running since 1994, Tigerden is an old web directory containing thousands of sites created by furries from up to 30 years ago. It's unfortunate a vast majority of the links are inaccessible now, but I've been surprised a good few times by what was still left online...

INTERNET PRIVACY

Disroot
https://disroot.org/

Hosting private email, cloud, file share and other telecommunication technologies, Disroot is one of a handful of platforms that provides a REASONABLE privacy policy - something rare to come by these days. If you have a shred of care for internet privacy, this is a good place to start.

Mullvad VPN
https://mullvad.net/en/vpn/

Founded by Fredrik Strömberg and Daniel Berntsson, this open source VPN is cheap (only costing $5USD a month), highly reliable, has a no-logging policy, completely anonymous account creation & payment and, most importantly, works excellently across Windows, Mac and Linux.

uMatrix
https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/releases/

Developed by Raymond Hill (the person behind the popular adblocker uBlock Origin), this extension is a point-and-click firewall that allows you to allow and deny connections from certain domains at will.
This project has been deprecated since 2021 but still holds up perfectly, however if you're looking for something more acitvely maintained, I'd look into NoScript instead.

Invidious
https://redirect.invidious.io/

An open source alternative Youtube front-end that makes as few connections to Google services as possible - that and it's ad-free, we know how atrocious Youtube gets with those these days.