Est. 2004

babaMatin!

A hand-curated link directory — 69 sites across 10 categories, originally hand-built with FrontPage in 2004 and now rebuilt in Next.js.

The search engines everyone actually used before Google won.

Iranian and Persian-language news wires and outlets.

Early Iranian e-commerce and online bookstores.

Doctors, clinics and health information sites.

Persian humor, jokes and casual gaming sites.

Social networks and chat rooms of the mid-2000s.

Persian blogging platforms.

Download and file-sharing resources.

Persian music, lyrics and clip archives.

Proxy and filter-bypassing tools from the era of heavy filtering.