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§ The Indie Web & Neocities
Places that believe, as Mirabilia does, that the internet is more interesting when it is strange and personal.
Neocities
neocities.org
The platform upon which Mirabilia rests. Free hosting for personal websites, in the tradition of the old internet. A noble endeavour.
IndieWeb
indieweb.org
A community of people who believe your website should be yours. Protocols, principles and a certain righteous determination.
Yesterweb
yesterweb.org
A community dedicated to the old web and its sensibilities: personal pages, quirky design and the conviction that the internet ought to be interesting.
Wiby
wiby.me
A search engine for the old-style web. Results will surprise you. That is the point. Press "Surprise me!" and see what the internet has been keeping to itself.
§ Curious Corners of the Internet
Places of particular interest, peculiarity or usefulness, discovered in the course of wandering.
The Internet Archive
archive.org
A library of the internet itself: books, music, software, films and the preserved ghosts of websites past. The Wayback Machine alone is worth the visit.
Wikipedia: Bestiary
en.wikipedia.org
The academic foundation upon which this Bestiary is loosely built and then cheerfully departed from. A good starting point for the genuinely curious.
Project Gutenberg
gutenberg.org
Free ebooks of works whose copyright has expired. Includes actual medieval texts. A remarkable quantity of peculiar things are in the public domain.
Public Domain Review
publicdomainreview.org
Essays and collections of art, literature and curiosities from history. Precisely the kind of thing Mirabilia aspires to. A great influence and inspiration.
Sacred Texts Archive
sacred-texts.com
A vast archive of religious, mythological and occult texts from around the world. Functional web design from an earlier era. Contains multitudes.
IM Fell English
fonts.google.com
The typeface used throughout Mirabilia, based on types cut for Bishop Fell of Oxford in the 17th century. Free, beautiful, and correctly obscure.
§ Web Ring
Mirabilia participates in the ancient tradition of the web ring — a circle of sites joined by theme or temperament. Navigate onwards.
✦ The Ring of Curious Things ✦
You are at: Mirabilia
(Web ring under construction — inquire at the guestbook if you wish to join)
§ Banner Exchange
In the tradition of the old web, Mirabilia offers a banner for exchange. Display it on your site; we shall display yours.
The Mirabilia banner (88×31px, the ancient standard):
✦ Mirabilia ✦To request a banner exchange, leave a note in the Guestbook.