[asaibx]

My favourite portal for discovering sites like this is something I discovered just recently here on HN: https://wiby.me/

It never fails to amaze me how much amazing stuff is out there online, hidden by a thick layer of top search results, and even more than that, the sheer amount of individual and collective effort that has been put into each of these sites. Someone mentioned the word "niche" and there is certainly some weirdly (or wonderfully) specific content you will find in the Wiby.me index. Lots of sites that haven't been updated since 1998, but still have an enormous and encyclopedic list of everything related to some topic (like the characteristics of different types of tomatoes, or how to build a motorcycle from spare parts or whatever). Some of it may be a little out of date, but a lot of it has been submitted for indexing precisely because of its timelessness or continued usefulness.

Whenever I feel hopeless about the current state of the web, I find this is the perfect antidote!

[hattori31]

This is absolutely awesome. For example, searching for pokemon gives blogs from 2000 about the "new movie". Far too nostalgic.

[_sbrk]

Thank you for reposting this treasure. Oh, how I miss pages that don't need a scroll wheel to read!