About VersionDude

Keeping a piece of web-standards history alive - and useful.

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Our mission

Keeping a piece of web-standards history alive - and useful.

VersionDude documents a set of open-source projects whose early development repositories were once hosted on this domain - among them an HTML5 parsing engine, the Validator.nu conformance checker, and the Pellet OWL reasoner. Each project page links to the project's current, actively maintained home.

Alongside that archive we publish practical, independent guides to the tools developers and privacy-conscious users actually reach for: open-source and self-hosted password managers, encrypted email, secrets management and more.

Why this domain

This domain carries a long history of links from the web-standards community - the WHATWG mailing list, the W3C, and developers like John Resig referenced its repositories when HTML5 was taking shape.

Rather than let that history disappear, VersionDude preserves those references (every legacy link still resolves) and builds on them with original, honest content in the same technical spirit.

An independent project

VersionDude is an independent publication. We do not claim authorship of the third-party projects we document; we link to their real maintainers. Some guides contain affiliate links, which are always disclosed.