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A hand-built indie web hub with a forum, a club of personal sites and guides to making your own homepage the old-fashioned way.
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Melonland sits in Retro Web under Retro, filed as rabbit hole.
About this category: Simulated TV channels by decade, old operating systems and the specific texture of an interface designed for a CRT.
Yes. Melonland is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Melonland without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file Melonland as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Rabbit hole": Clear your evening. We warned you.
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