While looking around for some old characters as I get back into MUGEN, I stumbled upon this site with a nice list of old mugen pages:
http://amit.dabydeen.com/mugenlinks.htmlId say 1/3 of them no longer work because geocities and infoseek deleted all of their old pages, so a lot of the 1.0 net was lost. But whats left might leave you pleasantly surprised.