Ancient Web: The Collection

The older web is full of small, specific places: personal homepages, fan projects, volunteer directories, research collections, technical notes, and sites built around one person’s enduring curiosity. This collection leads to 1,000 articles about those places and what they preserve.

Browse the titles alphabetically below. Each link opens our article about the site, with context and a link to the original website where one is available. For the companion series on vanished communities, automation, and the changing public web, see Dead Internet Theory: The Series.

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• The $39 Experiment Mailed 100 Weird Letters to Corporations for Free Stuff
• 101 Bananas Is What Happened Before Personal Websites Needed a Niche
• A 12-Year-Old's 1999 Page on Osiris and Isis Is Still Online
• 1812 Privateers Built a Database Out of a War at Sea
• A 1911 Steam Turbine Lecture Still Explains Cavitation in Plain HTML
• A 1994 Princeton Page Asked What SimCity Was Teaching Its Players
• A 1996 Physics FAQ Explained Whether Humans Can See a Single Photon
• A 1997 Klik Game Site Is Still Pointing at Executables
• A 1997 Page About the Future of the Internet Predicted Its Own Afterlife
• The 1998 Linux Tea Party Put Silicon Valley Linux in One Room
• A 1998 Xena Fan Site Preserved Episodes, Production Codes and Filming Locations
• A 1999 Matrix RPG Sourcebook Was Built for Any Game System
• A 1999 Sociology Paper Mapped the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers Fandom
• A 1999 Stanford Page Still Explains How Bunyaviruses Replicate
• A 2000 Pokémon Page Explained the Seizure Incident With Actual Neuroscience
• A 2004 Monk Fruit Page Became a Citation That Wouldn't Die
• 20KRide.com Built a Shrine to Disney's Lost Submarine Ride
• 2600 Kept a Calendar of Hacked Websites
• 2Bit Built an Entire Personal Site in Four Colors
• 2D53 Preserved North Wales Railways in Photos and Paperwork
• 440 International Kept Radio People and Radio History Searchable
• The 62nd Regiment Turned Reenactment Into a Research Archive
• 75 Years of Band-Aid Started With a Garage Full of Old Boxes
• 9-11 Research Preserves the Web's Long-Running Counter-Investigation of September 11
• The 90th ID Preservation Group Digitized the Tiny Details of a WWII Division
• 9p.io Kept Plan 9 From Bell Labs Downloadable

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• A.N. Lucas Rescued More Than 700 Tiny Web Buttons
• A86 Is Still Selling an x86 Assembler From the DOS Era
• AA5TB Has Been Publishing Ham Radio Notes Since 1998
• Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields Maps Vanished Runways
• Abandoned But Not Forgotten Cataloged Empty America State by State
• Abduct.com Built a Giant Archive Around Alien-Abduction Culture
• The Abyss of Wonder Preserves Alexei Panshin's Personal Web Library
• ACiD Kept the BBS Art Scene on the Web
• Action Grandma Is One Joke and One Page
• Action Squad Documented the Hidden Twin Cities Before Urbex Became a Genre
• Adam Schneider Turned Wildflower Photos Into a Searchable Field Archive
• Admiral Furashita Built an Entire Japanese Navy That Never Existed
• AG Playthings Catalogued American Girl Before the Wikis Did
• AI.Planet Built a Virtual Ecosystem in Delphi
• AIRIC Built a Canadian Aviation Photo Archive One Airshow at a Time
• AirmenDK Mapped Allied Air Losses Over Denmark
• AJFroggie Mapped the Interstate System One Road at a Time
• Akiyoshi Kitaoka Turned Optical Illusions Into a Living Web Laboratory
• Akrep Nalan's 2002 Website Became a Digital Memorial
• Alex Churchill Left His Student Homepage Online and Admitted It Was Out of Date
• An All Your Base Retromirror Preserved How Viral Culture Worked Before Social Media
• Alone in the Wilderness Preserves Dick Proenneke's Life Before It Became a YouTube Genre
• Alps Roads Has Been Photographing Highways Since 1997
• AmazeWorld Turns Plain Web Pages Into Tiny Clickable Adventure Games
• Ancient Egypt: the Mythology Is an Old-School Reference Site That Still Works
• Andrew Clem Built a Baseball Stadium Atlas by Hand
• Andrew Turnbull Cataloged How American Traffic Signs Changed
• Android Arts Is a One-Person Internet of Games, Hardware, and Drawings
• ANI-MATO Put a Professional Animator's Workshop on the Web
• Annie's Home Page Became a Memorial to Its Creator
• Ansilove Kept BBS Art Readable in Modern Browsers
• Antenna-Theory.com Made RF Engineering Readable Without Dumbing It Down
• Antique Bottles Turned Glass Trash Into a Reference Library
• Antique Microscopes Are Art and Science
• Antique-Microscopes Preserved the Instruments Chemistry Used Before Electronics
• Apemania Took Planet of the Apes Makeup Extremely Seriously
• APOD Built a Daily Astronomy Archive Before Blogs Had a Name
• APOD Kept a Plain HTML Window on the Universe Since 1995
• Apple2.org Keeps the Apple II in Pictures
• Applesnail.net Became a Serious Reference for a Weird Freshwater Snail Family
• April Fools on the Net Saved the Jokes Before Social Media
• Arizona Roads Maps Highway History One Route at a Time
• Ark Two Buried 42 School Buses Under Concrete for the End of the World
• Arkm's World Turns Navigation Into Storytelling
• ARPA.NET Baked a Cake for 1,000 Days of Sun Uptime
• ARRT's ARRCHIVES Is a Giant Hand-Built Museum of the Long Island Rail Road
• Art and Archaeology Turned Travel Photography Into a Reference Library
• The ASCII Art Dictionary Is a Zoo Made Out of Keyboard Characters
• ASCII Cats Needs No Business Plan
• asdf.com Made Four Home-Row Letters Into a Web Philosophy
• AskMrWizard Animated the Parts of Security Now That Needed Pictures
• AssociativeMusic.com Tried to Turn Found Noise Into a Musical Philosophy
• Astronautix Keeps Space Station Freedom From Disappearing Into the ISS
• AstroNuclPhysics Is a One-Man Science Library With Frames, Black Holes and Japanese Gardens
• An Atlas of the Universe Zooms from Nearby Stars to the Edge of Visibility
• Atomic Bill Wore a 75-Pound Cesium Clock as a Wristwatch
• The Australian Space Academy Built a Space School in HTML
• Australian Steam Keeps Track of More Than 600 Surviving Locomotives
• Australian Valve Amps Is Part Repair Bench, Part History Book
• Autism News Network Left a Written Record of the GeoCities Shutdown
• AutoHistories Put Poland's Beskid Prototype Online in 1996
• Automatic Beyond Belief Built a Shrine to the Sunbeam Radiant Control Toaster
• AwayMessages.com Preserves the Miniature Literature of AIM
• Ayr.org Gave a Scottish Town Its Own Corner of the Web

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• BackRub Still Shows Google Before Google
• Bad Astronomy Was Debunking Internet Nonsense Before It Became an Industry
• Bad Designs Built a Museum of Everyday Usability Failures
• Badger.org Survived the Dot-Com Crash and Became an Actual Badger Site
• Bagdad, Arkansas Is a Straight-Faced Fake Tourism Site
• BamSoftware Turned 10 MB Into 281 TB Without Recursion
• BanDHMO Proves True Facts Can Still Be Nonsense
• Bass Drop's Club Rebuilt the Fun Part of the Personal Web
• The Bastard Operator From Hell Is Still the Sysadmin Story Everyone Remembers
• BBC Politics '97 Is Still Serving the 1997 Election
• BCpl8s.ca Turned a 1999 Graduate Assignment Into 5,000 License-Plate Images
• Beadie Critters Keeps 1,400 Free Pony-Bead Patterns Alive
• Beaks.live Built a Better Bird Box Because the First Camera Was Rubbish
• Beastie’s Official Home Explains Why the BSD Daemon Is Not Chuck
• Beautiful Dragons' Nutrition Chart Became Bearded-Dragon Forum Infrastructure
• Beej's Pirate Image Archive Is a Pre-Google Image Search
• Berkeley's Lichen Pages Explain an Organism That Is Really a Partnership
• Betty's Graphics Keeps 16,713 Pieces of Web Decoration Alive
• BFRO Has Been Cataloging Bigfoot Reports Online Since 1995
• Big Ball of Mud Named the Architecture Everybody Pretends Not to Build
• Big Beautiful Backgrounds Preserved the Era When Websites Wore Wallpaper
• Big Ear Put the Complete Cosmic Search SETI Magazine Back Online
• BigPumpkins.com Has Been Growing Giant Pumpkins Online Since 1999
• Bimshwel Preserved Moraff's Dungeons of the Unforgiven in All Its Garbage-Can Glory
• Bjarne Stroustrup's Homepage Still Explains C++ in His Own Words
• BlackbeardThePirate.com Caught the Queen Anne's Revenge Recovery in Progress
• Blackjack in Color Turned Card-Counter Math Into Visual Charts
• Blake Patterson's SGI O2 Page Freezes a Workstation in Time
• Blizzard's Warcraft II Strategy Archive Still Explains the Game
• BlueTongueSkinks.NET Became a Long-Running Reptile Reference
• BMH Computers Built a Gamer's Paradise One NES Page at a Time
• The Board Lady Turned Thousands of Epoxy Repairs Into a Field Manual
• Book-A-Minute Was Speedrunning Literature Before Speedrunning Had a Name
• A Boston University Page Still Teaches How Transistors Become Logic
• BoxArtDen Treats Packaging Art Like Museum Material
• Brad Templeton Preserved the 1978 DEC Spam and the Replies It Triggered
• Brave New World as a Chapter-Indexed HTML Book
• Brian Lemay's Cartoon Factory Still Teaches Animation the Old Web Way
• Brisray Built an Optical-Illusion Gallery Before Social Media
• The British Empire Site Grew From a 1997 Teaching Project to 20,000 Pages
• British Wild Flowers Built a Crowdsourced Photo Catalog Before Apps
• Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics Is Real
• Brookline Connection Built a Neighborhood History Archive in 1998
• Bubble Bobble Fans Dumped the ROMs and Built a 1990s Reference Site
• Bubble Bobble Memories Kept a Taito Fan Site at 800 by 600
• Buffy Fans Built a Philosophy Department Before Fandom Had Wikis
• BunkerTours Crawled Through the Maginot Line So the Rest of Us Could Study It
• Butkus Camera Manual Library Keeps Orphan Cameras Usable

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• C'mon Get Happy Kept The Partridge Family on the Web Since 1996
• C.Y.KONG MIDI-Fied a Pile of Analog Synths and Documented the Surgery
• Cambridge Clarion Built and Measured a Solar Kettle
• Canadian Mind Products Is a Java Reference Library Attached to an Entire Worldview
• The Canadian Nuclear FAQ Has Been Answering CANDU Questions Since 1996
• Canadian Soldiers Built a Research Library Around the Army's 20th-Century History
• A Candy Rose Built a True-Crime Document Archive Before Social Media Ate the Case
• CanonLaw.info Built a Research Center Out of Static Web Pages
• Captured Lightning Has Been Wreaking Havoc With Electrons Since 1999
• Carabiner Collection Treats Climbing Hardware Like Industrial Archaeology
• Carfree.com Designed a City Around the Radical Idea of Not Driving Through It
• The Cariboo Gold Rush Froze a 1998 SchoolNet History Project in Place
• Carl's Friends Kept an 1847 Sourdough Starter Moving Through the Mail
• Carolana Built an Almost-Everything History of South Carolina
• Carolyn's Creations Preserves the Petz Modding Underground
• CarsFromItaly.net Cataloged the Weird Depth of Italian Car History
• The Castlevania Dungeon Still Wants 800x600 and 64K Colors
• The Cat Drag'd Inn Turned Decades of Road Life Into a Travel-Letter Archive
• Cataroo Became an Animation History Reference
• Caveman Chemistry Made Students Build Civilization from Scratch
• Cayzle Spent 27 Years Building a Website About Lion-Centaurs
• CCRU Turned a 1999 Art Event Into a Web-Based Time Cult
• Ceder.net Turned Square Dancing Into a Giant Searchable Database
• CelNav Kept Celestial Navigation Practical on the Web
• Ceolas Has Been Indexing Celtic Music Since 1994
• Chairlift.org Documented the Ski Lifts the Mountains Removed
• A Chebucto Community Site Connected Yang Style Tai Chi to Taoist Philosophy
• Chicago-L.org Preserves the History of Paying to Ride the Train
• A Chicken Farm Guide Written Like a Textfile From 1993
• Chicon 2000 Left an Entire Worldcon Online
• Chocolate Wrappers Turned Candy Packaging Into a Global Database
• Chris Covell Turned Retro Console Curiosity Into a Technical Archive
• Chronos Built a Fake Time-Travel Corporation and Committed to the Bit
• Chuck Moore's colorForth Replaced Punctuation With Color
• Cindy Vallar's Pirates & Privateers Keeps Maritime Piracy Source-Driven
• The Circle of the Dragon Grew From Angelfire Into a 25-Year Dragon Reference
• Citroenet Explains the Hydraulic Suspension That Made Old Citroëns Feel Like Machinery From Another Timeline
• Citroënët Has Been Explaining Hydropneumatic Suspension Since 1995
• CityFonts Turns Maps and Typography Into JODI Net Art
• Civilization II CheckPoint Is Still Waiting for Civilization III
• CivilWarPoetry.org Preserves the Music and Verse of the Civil War
• Clark's Garage Keeps Porsche 944s on the Road
• Classic Chemistry Put Original Scientific Papers on the Web
• A Clementi Piano Page Kept Working After the Site Died
• CloneKeen Kept Commander Keen Playable in Free Software
• Club Nintendo Archives Rescued the UK Magazine Everyone Forgot
• Cockatiel Cottage Built a Bird-Care Library in 2001
• The Coffee Pot That Became a Webcam
• CoffeeResearch.org Built a 300-Page Coffee School
• Colin MacDonald Built a Scott Joplin MIDI Library by Hand
• Colin Pykett Built a 900,000-Word Organ Engineering Reference
• A Collector Mapped the Strange History of Soviet Calculators
• A Columbine Site Preserves an Important Warning About Fake Web Mirrors
• Comic Book Plus Built a Massive Free Public-Domain Comics Library
• The Computer Closet Rescued Classic Machines Before Retrocomputing Was a Market
• Computer Gaming World Museum Preserved an Industry
• Computer Stupidities Preserved the Help Desk Horror Story
• ConcordeSST Became a Living Technical Museum Before the Jets Retired
• A Confused Dragon Built a Pixel-Art Web Desktop on Neocities
• Contact Consortium Built Virtual-World Community Before 'Metaverse' Became Marketing
• The Contemplator Built a Folk-Music Reference Before Streaming Ate the Songbook
• Coolspring Documented a 25-Ton Otto Engine One Page at a Time
• The Corinth Computer Project Mapped a Roman City on the Early Web
• The Cosmic Encounter Archive Helped Fans Rebuild a Board Game From Files and Memory
• Countach.ch Keeps Lamborghini's Most Impractical Icon Fixable
• Cowboy Showcase Preserved Real Dutch Oven Camp Cooking
• Cowboys of Brazil and a 1902 Book Still Sitting in Plain HTML
• Cozy Builders Put a Homebuilt Airplane Community on the Web in 1995
• CPRR.org Built a Transcontinental Railroad Museum Out of Stereographs
• CPU-GALAXY Is a Private Museum of Rare Chips
• Craig Marlatt's Canada Pages Became a Personal Reference Library
• Crashland Preserved Naughty Dog's Old Crash Bandicoot Material
• CrayonCollecting Turned Crayola Boxes Into a Reference System
• Cris Thomas Catalogued the Strange Promotional Toys Saturn Dealers Gave Away
• CroatianHistory.net Is a Sprawling Independent National Reference
• Cromwell International Is What Happens When One Homepage Refuses to Pick a Subject
• The Cronan Memorial Shows How Real a Person Could Become Without Ever Meeting Them
• Crop Circle Center Cataloged Over 7,100 Sightings Without Settling the Argument
• Crypto Museum Is an Entire Spy Museum Hiding in a Browser
• Crystalinks' Colosseum Page Still Calls a 2007 Event Recent
• The Cunningham Project Is Still Factoring Huge Numbers
• Currell.net Turned Airships, Rockets and Titanic into Printable Card Models
• The Cyberpunk Project Was a Library for the Future Before the Future Arrived
• Cyberwolfman's Web Asylum Preserved a Whole Personal Internet

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• Daemonen Built a Hand-Made Lexicon of Demons, Monsters and Folklore
• Dan Hates Spam Turned Junk Email Into a Legal Project
• DAN-BALL Kept Browser Games Alive for Twenty Years
• The Dancing Baby Still Has Its Original Home
• Daniel Stenberg's History of IRC
• Dank and Scud Built a Quake Comic Before Machinima Had a Name
• Daring Armstrong Got an Entire Fake Hero Homepage on Something Awful
• Dark Isle Mapped Scotland's Castles Before Maps Became a Platform
• Darkchilde's Sanctuary Became a One-Person Reference Library
• The Data Egg Tried to Replace the Tiny Keyboard With Seven Buttons
• DataPacRat Built a Personal Information Archive
• Davar Grew a Personal Reference Library Instead of Building a Website
• Dave Baum Put LEGO Mindstorms on the Web in Not Quite C
• David Ulansey Put the Cosmic Mysteries of Mithras on One Long Web Page
• David Wonn's Nintendo 64 Glitch Archive Is Still Ridiculous
• DDT Digest Covered Pro Wrestling Before Every Fan Had a Feed
• DeadMalls.com Turned Retail Collapse Into a Community Archive
• Deadword Resurrected One of the Web's First Magazines
• DeathReference.com Put Death, Dying, and Bereavement Into an Online Encyclopedia
• DeepCave Froze a Cave Diver's Final Project in Place
• The Delta Launch Vehicle Site Tracked a Rocket Family for Decades
• DF7CB Is a Ham Radio Site That Never Forgot the Web's Personal Side
• Dial Up Sound Keeps the Modem Handshake Alive
• Didik.com Is What Happens When an Inventor Never Stops Adding Pages
• Digger.org Remastered a 1983 CGA Game Before Retro Remakes Were Normal
• DigiCamHistory Stops in 1998 on Purpose
• Disco-Disco Kept Studio 54 History in the Voices of People Who Were There
• The Distorted Barbie Turned HTML Into Web Art
• DJ Riddler's Rave Archive Preserves the Early 1990s From the Ground
• DNEP Kept Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project Mapping Alive
• Doctor Macro Scanned Classic Hollywood One Glossy at a Time
• Doctor Nostromo Has Been Running the Same Hobby Site Since 1995
• The Dodge Garage Keeps the Turbo Mopar World Repairable
• Does Anyone Remember Websites? Asked the Right Question in 2017
• Dole Kemp '96 Is Frozen on Election Day
• DolphinsFilm.com Preserved the IMAX Web of 2000
• Don Eyles Explains What the Apollo 11 Computer Alarms Actually Meant
• Don Knuth's Homepage Still Treats the Web Like a Personal Research Desk
• Don Worth Put Beneath Apple Manor Back Online Himself
• Don's Depot Turned a 1946 Railroad Photo Hobby Into a Web Archive
• Don's Maps Is an Archaeology Site Built by Obsession
• DoomGate Treats Doom Like a Technical Civilization
• Dopefish.com Tracks One Dumb Green Fish Through Decades of Games
• DOS4Ever Is an Electronics Bench That Happens to Be a Website
• Douglas Self Collected Vehicles With Not Enough Wheels
• DPGraph Drew Eight-Dimensional Math in Assembly Language
• DriveInTheater.com Keeps America's Drive-In Map Alive
• DriveMeInsane Has Let Strangers Control the Lights Since 1997
• Drop-D Magazine Froze Vancouver's 1998 Music Scene in HTML
• Dupont Castle Documented a Home-Built Castle Since 1998

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• The Early Office Museum Documents the Machines That Ran the Paperwork
• Early Radio History Has Been Online Since 1996
• Early Web Links Is Building a Card Catalog for the Personal Web
• Earth Witchery Built a Field Guide to Faery Lore
• EarthbagBuilding.com Documented Houses Made From Bags of Dirt
• EarthbagBuilding.com Turned Sandbag Construction Into a Serious DIY Architecture Library
• Eclipse '98 Survived a Million-Hit Live Webcast
• Ed Collins Built a Chess-Software Help Site and Kept Using It for Decades
• Ed Thelen Turned Nike Missile Service Into a Public Technical Archive
• Ed Ting's Scope Reviews Has Been Gathering Light Since 1997
• The Eggman Empire Kept a Robotnik Fan Site Alive Into a New Era
• Electronixandmore Grew Out of an AOL Antique Radio Page
• Emory's Odyssey Rome Is a Frozen Museum Classroom
• Encyclopaedia Romana Has Been Wandering Through Rome Since 1997
• The Encyclopedia of Electronic Music Kept Growing from 2002 into the 2020s
• The Encyclopedia of Organ Stops Documents 2,500 Ways to Make a Pipe Organ Speak
• The Enron Archive Rebuilt the Company's Website Before the Collapse
• Eric's Dodge Truck Pages Became a Registry for Machines Nobody Documented
• EV Finder Tracked Electric Cars Before They Were Normal
• Evan Miller Made Statistics Readable for Programmers
• Evergreen Argues That a Website Should Feel Like a Place You Made
• Ex Astris Scientia Has Been Hand-Building Star Trek Reference Since 1998
• Expedition Atlantis Put the Lost City in Libya
• ExplainingComputers Refuses to Become a Blog
• EyeEye Robots Documented Walking Machines Before YouTube

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• F-Zero World Record History Keeps Thirty-Five Years of Lap Times Alive
• F2.org Built a Personal Web Archive Before Link Rot Won
• FabPedigree Turned 296,000 Genealogy Pages Into One Hypertext Rabbit Hole
• FactsFacts Explained Geocaching Before Smartphones Took Over
• A Family Trip Through Ontario's Bruce Peninsula, Preserved as a Plain HTML Travel Page
• Farum Data Turned Obsolete Media Conversion Into Computing Archaeology
• FDNYTrucks Built a Living Photographic Catalog of Fire Apparatus
• The Fell Pony Museum Put a Working Breed on a Timeline
• Final Fantasy Dimension Still Looks Like a Fan Site From 1999
• The First Church of Grady Booch Made Object-Oriented Design a Religion
• The First International Collection Packed 3,660 Tongue Twisters Into 118 Languages
• The First Website Still Explains the Web
• FishCam Has Been Pointing a Camera at Something Since 1994
• Fishpondinfo Hand-Coded 943 Pages of Pond and Animal Notes
• Flame Warriors Cataloged the People Who Ruin Every Forum
• Flash Pacman Preserved the Browser-Game Clone Era
• Flatland's 3DML Tried to Turn HTML-Style Text Into Walkable Websites
• FlintSource Mapped the Rocks Behind Prehistoric Tools
• Floppy Museum Runs a Web Server, IRC and FTP From a Floppy Disk
• Fluffy's World Was Cool Site of the Day Before That Meant Anything
• Fly Fishing Entomology Built a Field Guide for Reading the Water
• Flying Dreams Is a Family Domain From the Personal Web
• Flying Omelette Documented Donkey Kong 64's Weirdest Glitches
• Flying Omelette Is a 1998 Gaming Site That Never Learned to Die
• Foraging Pictures Indexed 1,581 Photos From New York Wild-Food Walks
• Ford Scorpio Owners Built the Workshop Manual Haynes Never Made
• Fourmilab Rebuilt a 1977 Nuclear-Weapons Manual Into a Web Index
• Fourmilab Shows How to Bend Spacetime in the Basement
• FOVICKS Photographed the Los Angeles River as Industrial Archaeology
• Francis Ow Left an Origami Library Behind
• Franco Maria Boschetto Built a 4-Gigabyte Teaching Website
• Frank Smitha's Macrohistory Built a World History Timeline by Hand
• The Fred Project Built a Ventriloquist Dummy in Public
• Freefall's Mirror Shows How Webcomics Survived by Being Mirrored
• A FreeServers Southeast Asia Directory Kept Escaping Into School PDFs
• Freshette's Graphics Is a Living Fossil of the Decorative Web
• Friends of the Creeks Kept Walnut Creek's Waterways in Public Memory
• Frogland Put an Entire Frog Obsession on the Web
• Futureware 2001 and the Open-Source Workshop From Vienna

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• Gaby.de Kept CP/M and ZNODE51 Alive on the Web
• Gail.com Became Famous by Being One Letter From Gmail
• Galactic Server Is a Surviving Channeling-Era Cosmology Hub
• The Gallery of Monster Toys Preserves Horror Before It Got Collector-Grade
• The Game Boy Development Forum Kept a Hardware Scene Alive
• Game Zero Builds a 4-Bit Processor One Logic Gate at a Time
• The Garfield and Friends Supapage Did the DVD Bonus Features It Never Got
• A Garfield Postcard Collection Frozen in Simple HTML
• Gary's Place Became Four Reference Libraries
• Georg Potthast Kept DOS Machines on the Network
• The German Propaganda Archive Preserves the Source Material
• Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages Index 10,000 Spice Names in Dozens of Languages
• The GHZ Sonic Museum Froze Two Decades of Hedgehog Games in Static HTML
• The GIA Preserved SquareSoft News From the PlayStation Boom
• Giangrandi Kept an Engineering Notebook Online Since 2002
• The GIF Pronunciation Page Has Been Arguing for 'Jif' Since 1998
• GifCities Turns GeoCities GIFs Into a Search Engine
• Ginjirotchi.ca Keeps Tamagotchi Care Logs on the Open Web
• Glen Kuban Built a Dinosaur-Track Research Archive at Paleo.cc
• Glitch Works Repairs Vintage Computers Down to the Board Level
• The Gnostic Society Put the Corpus Hermeticum Online
• GoldenEye Forever Refused to Let One N64 Game Die
• Gordon Novak's Homepage Preserves an Era When AI Meant Lisp, Physics and Building the Damn Thing
• Gorm the Wired Has Been Turning People Into Vikings for Decades
• Grafman's VR World Preserves What VRML Looked Like in 1995
• Grant Searle Rebuilt a 1974 Pong Machine Without a Microprocessor
• Graphite Galaxy Teaches Telescope Making One Homemade Part at a Time
• The Great War Primary Documents Archive Has Been Serving World War I Sources Since 1995
• The Greek Age of Bronze Reconstructs Mycenaean Warfare Detail by Detail
• Greg Egan Has Kept a Science-Fiction Home Page Alive Since 1997
• Greg Kennedy Preserved His Family's 1997 Homepage
• Greg Woods Built the Kind of UNIX Homepage That Never Really Ends
• The Gremlin Turned an Animation Art Store Into a Reference Archive
• GT-Four Pages Preserved the Details the Manuals Left Out
• Guardian's Egypt Built a Great Pyramid Primer Before Everything Became Video
• The Guide to Grammar and Writing Became a 600-Log Classroom
• Guns & Sand Was a Joke Site That Looked Just Real Enough

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• H.R. Giger's Official Site Went Online in 1996 and Never Really Left
• The Halifax Computer Club Kept Meeting on the Community Web
• Hallowed Haunting Grounds Preserves 33 Years of One Halloween Yard Haunt
• Hammersly's Ironclads Put an 1881 Naval Encyclopedia Back on Screen
• A Hand-Built Telegraph History Page Remembers the Network Before the Network
• The Handheld Game Museum Never Threw Anything Away
• Hannu Asikainen Photographed More Than 850 Finnish Churches
• Haunted Chicago Mapped the City's Ghost Stories Before Paranormal Content Became a Feed
• Haunted Dimensions Turned Theme Park Mansions Into Paper Models
• The Hawaii Five-O Home Page Has Been Online Since 1994
• HDTV Primer Modeled TV Antennas Instead of Trusting the Box
• The Heaven's Gate Site Is Still Online
• her.st Is a Three-Person Fortress of Linux, XMPP and Machine-Cult Aesthetics
• Hermit-Crabs.com Built a Serious Care Manual for a Pet Sold Like a Toy
• High Park Toronto Became an Independent Guide to a City Park
• A High Schooler Built a Museum of Blue Screens in Public
• Historian.net Put the History of Writing Inside a Shockwave-Era Website
• Historic Memphis Rebuilt the 1897 Tennessee Centennial in Photographs
• Historical Boys' Clothing Became a 30,000-Page Social History Archive
• History of Cuba Turned the Virginius Affair Into a One-Man Reference Project
• The History of Phrenology Preserved a Discredited Science in Primary Sources
• History of Rock Traces Rock and Roll Back Before 1954
• Hogranch Froze a Personal Homepage with CP/M, Windows 95 and Stale Links
• Hollywood Lost and Found Keeps the Weird Details of Movie History Alive
• Hollywood's Golden Age Built a Free Reference to Classic Film
• The Homebrew CPU Ring Still Links Computers Built From the Wrong End
• A Homestead Page Turned the Screen Gems S Into Internet Folklore
• Homo Ludens Built a Homepage for Every Hobby One Man Could Collect
• Hose Company No. 1 Put a 1908 Volunteer Firehouse Online
• Howard Wiseman Mapped Post-Roman Britain and Admitted the Maps Were Wrong
• The HP 9845C Demo Preserves Early Color Computer Graphics
• HuecoTanks.com Preserved Climbing History in Windows Media and QuickTime
• Hugh Smith Made a Photo Catalog of Fungi That Grow on Dung
• A Hunt for Red October Fan Site Treated the Story Like a Technical Manual
• Hurstwic Kept Rewriting Its Viking History When the Research Changed
• HW Farm Turned Horse Breeding Into a Decades-Long Web Archive
• Hyperhero Is a Late-1990s Superhero Homepage That Never Broke Character
• HyperPhysics Turned HyperCard Into a 1998 Web of Physics Concepts

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• Ian Bell's Homepage Kept Elite Close to Its Source Code
• The IBM 1401 Restoration Site
• The IBM PC110 Site Preserves a Palmtop That Was Too Weird for Its Own Good
• ICYouSee Was Online in 1994 and Turned the Titanic Into Web Data
• iiichan's Shutdown Page Became Its Own History
• Industrial Alchemy Built a Technology Museum Out of the Parts Bin
• Insecticons Kept Its 2000s Transformers Fan Culture Online
• Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics Put Hollywood on Trial
• The Intel 4004 Site Argues the History From the Inside
• InterGuru Still Converts Address Books From Eudora, Pine, Elm, and AOL
• Internet Bumper Stickers Let You Paste Opinions Into E-Mail
• Internet Explorer Is Evil Survived the Browser War
• The Internet Gadget Archive Started Chip 'n Dale Fandom in 1995
• The Internet Pizza Server Was Serving Fake Pizza in 1994
• Invertebrates of the Salish Sea Built a Field Guide With 450 Species
• IORR Took a 1980 Rolling Stones Fan Club Online in 1996
• An Iraq War UFO Conspiracy Index Is Still Sitting Online
• Italy's National UFO Center Preserved Its 1997 Web Archive
• Italy's Volcanoes Deliberately Preserved Its 1995 Self
• IvyJoy Built a Kids Search Page Before Safe Search Became a Setting

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• Jade Cat Mixed Genealogy, Paint Shop Pro and Free Web Graphics
• Jake Meinershagen's Homepage Is a Drawer Full of Useful and Useless Stuff
• Jan Sikusi's Wonderdream Gives Every Interest Its Own Room
• Jane Fancher's Hand-Built Author Site Still Points Back to Gate of Ivrel
• JapanHemp Preserved a 1990s History of Hemp in Japanese Culture
• JavelinAMX Turned American Motors Into a Hand-Built Online Archive
• Jef Poskanzer Made an Under Construction Page About Under Construction Pages
• The Jellybabies Page Gave Candy Personalities, Instruments, and Skateboarding Skills
• Jerry Oltion's Homepage Is Half Sci-Fi Bibliography, Half Telescope Workshop
• The Jet-Powered Beer Cooler
• Jim Storer Built an Online Field Guide to Mechanical Puzzles
• Jim Yates Built a Homepage That Refused to Pick One Topic
• Jno Cook Built an Art Site Where Broken Toasters Got Personalities
• John and Mary Kormendy Watched One Texas Yard for 22 Years
• John Sayles Put Renaissance and Early Music MP3s on a Family Homepage
• John Wolff's Web Museum Preserves Music Machines That Play Paper
• Jon Skeet Still Has a Worms Fan Page
• Jon's Bushcraft Teaches Skills Without a Content Platform
• JProc Preserves the Strange History of TEMPEST
• Ju388.de Built a Digital Museum Around One Rare Junkers Aircraft
• JWZ's Tent of Doom Fought the Open Office With Camouflage Netting

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• K Labs Preserves the Ugly Details of Digital Electronics in Space
• K3PGP's Experimenter's Corner Runs From VLF to Light
• KAGAYA's Celestial Exploring Imagined Earth Three Thousand Years From Now
• Karl Sims Evolved Creatures Before Generative AI Had a Name
• Kelesis Preserved Compile's Shooter Obsession One Fan Page at a Time
• Ken Silverman's Voxlap Page Preserves the Road Not Taken in 3D Graphics
• Kenji Miyazawa's Ihatov Still Lives in a Hand-Built Literary Website
• Kenneth Kuhn Built a 450-Piece Hewlett-Packard Test Equipment Museum
• Kenny Young Left Behind a 1990s UFO Investigation Archive
• Keno.org Still Carries a 1990s Rolling Stones Message Board
• KeyHut Still Turns Old PCs Into Cash Registers
• Kirby's Dream Site Rebuilds the Fansite Internet on Neocities
• Kitana Rebuilt Battle Isle 2 in 23,000 Lines of BASIC
• The Kitchen Project Turned Sauerkraut Into a Tiny Food-History Archive
• Kitty's PageWorks Taught the Web to Wiggle in 1996
• KnotPlot Has Been Turning Mathematics Into 3D Knots Since the 1990s
• Komar.org Let the Internet Control 25,000 Christmas Lights
• Kozmic Dreams, Art Cars and a Handmade Personal Web
• Krazer Lasers Is a Surplus-Lab-Gear Rabbit Hole
• The Krib Has Kept Aquarium Usenet Alive Since 1994
• KryssTal Chemistry Explains the Periodic Table Like a Person, Not a Platform

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• Land of Kain Built a Shadowrun Rulebook on the Web
• LatinAmericanStudies.org Became a Professor's 35,000-Link Research Machine
• Laurent Besset Built a Solar Balloon Handbook Out of Black Plastic and Sunlight
• Learn Choral Music Turned MIDI Files Into a Choir Rehearsal Library
• Learn-to-Draw.com Taught Art Before Video Tutorials Took Over
• Leffingwell Built a Technical Library Around the Sense of Smell
• Leigh Brasington's Website Is What Happens When a Personal Site Never Stops Growing
• Lena Games Still Sells Software the Old-Fashioned Way
• The Lenna Page Preserved the Origin Story of Computer Vision's Most Famous Test Image
• The Lexx Domain Preserved a Strange Sci-Fi Fandom in Its Natural Habitat
• LGR Kept the Personal Homepage Alive Beside YouTube
• Lifeprint Teaches ASL Handshapes the Way People Actually Use Them
• The Lighthouse Directory Has 24,800 Lights and Keeps Counting
• Lighthouse Getaway Has Been on the Internet Since 1993
• Links.net Has Been Oversharing Since 1994
• Linus Akesson Built the Kind of Homepage the Web Needs
• The Living Image Camera Museum Keeps Old Cameras Working
• Living Image Turned Vintage Cameras Into a Browsable Timeline
• The Living World of Molluscs Is What Happens When a Snail Interest Keeps Growing
• Loadstar's Lair Put Tigers, Leonardo and Valve Radios Under One Roof
• Longcat Is Still Looooooooooooooooooooong
• Look Out Now! Built a 3D Cutaway of a Tobacco Pipe
• The LOTR Fanclub Scrapbook Preserved a Message Board After the Official Club Died
• Louis Kessler Has Been Keeping His Personal Website Since 1997
• LunarSight Kept a Multimedia Mad Science Lab Online Since 1996
• Lundsten's Basement Preserved Danish Railway Signaling
• The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5 Made Fandom Searchable
• The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5 Turned Watching Television Into Collaborative Archaeology

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• M2Museum Cataloged 6,258 Micro Machines by Color, Set and Year
• Mac Hut Is Mirroring the Classic Mac Web Before It Vanishes
• Machine Learning in Games Kept the Old AI Reading List Alive
• MadSci Has Been Answering Weird Science Questions Since 1995
• The Malt-Whisky Experts Consortium Built a Fake-Secret Clubhouse
• MANWEB Remembered Preserved the Paper Trail of a Vanished Electricity Board
• Mario Kart 64 Shortcuts Were Once Traded by Email
• Mark Headrick Kept General MIDI Playing After Netscape Died
• Mark Pesce's 1994 Homepage Still Points Toward Cyberspace
• MARVUNAPP Built an Encyclopedia for Marvel's Forgotten Characters
• Masters of Melody Preserved the BBC Orchestras Radio Forgot
• Math Lair Found Real Math Inside Tic-Tac-Toe
• The Matrix 101 Built a Fan Reference Before Everything Became a Wiki
• Matt Kane Built a Modern Site Like a 1990 HyperCard Stack
• Matthew Furman Kept Building Websites Like Websites
• Matthias Wandel Treated Stock Picking Like a Poker Problem
• The May Day Mystery Archived Decades of Cryptic Newspaper Ads
• McMurdoStation.com Kept a Running Construction Log for Antarctica's Biggest Base
• McSpotlight Put an Entire Corporate Court Fight Online in 1996
• Mcubed Turned Sports History Into a Hand-Built Statistics Machine
• The MechWarrior II FAQ Captured a Game While It Was Still Being Built
• Medieval Cookery Turned 20 Years of Food Research Into a Working Reference Library
• Medieval Writing Taught Paleography with Flash and Netscape 4
• MedievalWarfare.info Built a Giant Reference Maze
• Mercenary's Helper Thought the Other Star Fox 64 Sites Were Crap
• Mercury Arc Rectifiers Glowed Before Silicon Took Over
• The Merkur Encyclopedia Keeps Ford's Strangest American Import Repairable
• The Mermalair Became a SpongeBob Episode-Capsule Time Capsule
• Mewbies Kept a List of Things Still Alive on Telnet
• Mexican Masks Cataloged Dance Masks, Patina and Fakes
• Mexicolore Built an Aztec Library for Teachers and Researchers
• Michael Scharrer Kept the POV-Ray Source Code With the Art
• Michaelsoft Binbows Was a Real Used-PC Shop and the Joke Was Exactly What You Think
• Michelle Hoyle's History of Computing Science Became a Citation That Refused to Die
• Mick Cooper Turned a Personal Homepage Into a Portsmouth Memory Bank
• MicroMac Is a Frozen Catalog of Mac Upgrades That Once Made Sense
• MIDI Shack Is a Fossil From the MIDI Web
• Mike Jittlov's WizWorld Never Stopped Glowing
• Mike Willegal Rebuilt the Apple I and Revision-0 Apple II From the Board Up
• Mike's Digital Clocks Are What Happens When Timekeeping Gets Out of Hand
• Mike's Woodwork Kept a Project Log Alive for Decades
• The Millennium Simulation Put 10 Billion Particles on a 2005 Web Page
• The Million Dollar Homepage Froze a Million Pixels in 2005
• Millitext Squeezed Letters Into LCD Subpixels
• Mime.info Has Cataloged Silent Performance Since 1996
• Mini vMac Keeps Early Macintosh Software Runnable
• MissouriPlants.com Built a Field Guide for Wild Plants
• Mister Ralls Left a GeoCities Self-Portrait Behind
• MIT Still Hosts a Complete Technical Writing Handbook
• Modern Airships Turned One Blimp Encounter Into a Photo Archive
• Modulated Light DX Sent Audio 104 Miles Through the Air
• The Mojave Phone Booth Became an Internet Landmark Because Somebody Kept Calling It
• Molecule of the Month Has Been Publishing Chemistry Since 1996
• Molossia Built a Navy in the Desert and Documented Every Voyage
• Monty Python's Completely Useless Web Site Has Been Useful Since 1996
• Moon Blink Built a Deep Eclipse Database Before Astronomy Apps Ate the Interface
• Morel Madness Left a Trail Back to Larry 'Tree' Lonik
• Mother Bedford Used One Pair of Jutti to Explain Centuries of Punjabi Leatherwork
• Movie-A-Minute Reduced Entire Films to a Few Brutal Lines Before Social Media Did
• The Mozilla Museum Kept Netscape's Green Dinosaur Alive
• MrBreakfast Built a Reference Library Around One Meal
• MrEclipse Teaches Lunar Eclipse Photography From Film to DSLRs
• MS Word Sucks Turned Software Frustration Into a Manifesto
• MSU Built a Geography of Michigan Course Into the Web
• Mug Shots Has Classified A&W Root Beer Glassware Since 1995
• Mulsanne's Corner Explains Race Car Aerodynamics
• Multiplayer SimCity on X11
• The Museum of Plugs and Sockets Made Electrical Standards Collectible
• Music in the Afghan North Put 1967-1972 Fieldwork Online
• My Cord-Cutting Adventure Documented How Annoying TV Became Before Streaming Fixed Nothing
• My Old Computers Built a 260-Machine Museum Out of One Man's Workshop
• Mysterium Kept a Controversial Mithras Thesis Online
• Mystery Manor Still Keeps Old Adventure Games Running
• mySundial.ca Teaches 39 Ways to Tell Time With a Shadow
• MythNET Is a 1997 Student Project That Became a Greek Mythology Reference
• Mímir Made Icelandic Grammar Navigable by Hyperlink

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• NakedEyePlanets.com Made Planet Spotting a Hand-Built Reference
• Nambu World Turned a Private Collection Into a Virtual Museum
• Napoleon Monuments Maps an Empire Through What Still Stands
• The Napoleonic Guide Turned One Obsession Into 4,000 Pages
• NASA Still Hosts the POLAR Experiment's CMB Pages
• NASA's StarChild Still Looks Like the Web Taught Astronomy in 1996
• The National Opossum Society Built an Emergency Page for Orphaned Opossums
• National Police Car Archives Is Cataloging Every Cop Car It Can Find
• Native Languages Preserved Original Tribal Names Beyond English Labels
• NativeTech Has Kept Eastern Woodland Technology Online Since 1994
• NativeWeb Preserved Black Crow's Wolf Drawings
• NaturalArches.org Measured the World's Giant Rock Openings
• Nausicaa.net Built a Miyazaki Archive Before Ghibli Was Mainstream
• Naval-History.Net Transcribed 350,000 Pages of Royal Navy Log Books
• NebraskaAirCrash Maps the Places Where Planes Never Came Home
• The Neitherworld Built a Beetlejuice Fandom Before the Platforms
• Neocomputer Repaired Atari E.T. Three Decades After Release
• NES City Preserved the 2003 NES Fan Scene
• The NES Color Problem
• Net.Goths Built a Subculture Before Social Media
• Netiquette Put the Rules of Cyberspace on a Web Page
• Netscape's 1994 Welcome Page Still Explains What a Hyperlink Is
• Neustadt.fr Called the User-Hostile Web Problem in 2017
• New Zealand's Rare Breeds Site Has Been Tracking Livestock Genetics Since 2002
• NewAlmaden.org Keeps California's Mercury-Mining History Visible
• The NeXT Computer Historical Site Preserves the Black Cube Before It Became a Legend
• NextDimension Kept Gunman Chronicles Running After WON
• Niagara Railfan Documented the Railways Around Niagara Falls
• NiagaraFrontier Documents the Summer America Turned Off a Waterfall
• Nick's Model Tanks Preserved a Lifetime of Scale Modeling
• Nindestruct Put Its 1998 Nine Inch Nails Geocities Site Back Online
• Nintendo Still Hosts an Old F-Zero Product Page
• Nintendo's Super Mario 64 Page Admitted the Web Could Not Explain 3D Mario
• NOHAB.hu Documented the Hungarian Career of a Swedish Diesel Icon
• Noji's Ham Radio Pages Turned a Personal Notebook Into a Reference Library
• Nokiamies Keeps the Nokia 3100 in a Hand-Built Phone Collection
• The Northwest Fighter Kite Association Has Been Plotting World Domination Since 1998
• Notepad.org Sells the Greatest HTML Editor You Already Had
• NotPurfect Is What a Personal Homepage Looks Like When Nobody Tells It to Pick a Niche
• NOVA's 1999 To the Moon Site Still Has Apollo QTVR Panorama Energy
• NOVA's Island of the Sharks Still Looks Like Educational Web Design From 2002
• NTSC-TV.com Explains Why Analog Color Television Was So Weird
• NTT ICC Preserves the 1990s Arguing With Itself About Digital Culture
• The Nuclear Weapon Archive Started as a 1994 University Site
• NukaFurbs Built a Furby World With Music, Shrines, and a Warning Label
• The Numbers Racket Freezes the Spy Radio Scene in 1998
• The NYIT Computer Graphics Lab Preserved the Images Before Pixar
• NYU Put Archimedes’ Cattle Problem on the Web

O

• Oceans of Kansas Turns a Plesiosaur Field Trip Into a Fossil Notebook
• Odyssey - The Legend of Nemesis Left Its Classic Mac Site Standing
• Oklahoma State Put a 1998 Geometry Class on the Web and Left It There
• OKRoads Photographed American Highways Before Street View Took Over
• Old Bricks Turned Stamped Clay Into an Industrial History Database
• The Old Calculator Museum
• Old Crow's Community Site Put a Roadless Yukon Village Online
• Old Organizers Preserves the Pocket Computers Before Smartphones
• The Old Robots Site Catalogs the Future We Used to Expect
• Old Shipbuilder Preserved 65,000 Great Lakes Maritime Photographs
• Old-Games.com Is Still an Index of 11,900 Classic Games
• Oldskool's Lode Runner Shrine Kept a 1983 Puzzle Game Playable
• Oleg Bartunov's University Directory Became Part of PostgreSQL History
• Omick.net Documented Composting Toilets, Offshore Sailing, and DIY Systems
• One Long Page Tried to Rescue Louis Vierne From the Organ Loft
• One Man Documented Building His Own Microhydro Power Plant
• One Man's Love Letter to a 1984-1988 Honda Civic 1500S
• One Philosophy Page Became an Entire Library
• One Website Catalogs 322 Brooklyn Parquet Floor Borders
• Only Polly Pocket Indexes a Tiny Toy World Year by Year
• Opsopaus Built a Hypertext Pythagorean Theology
• OpusGames Turned a 1997 Personal Page Into a Game-Development Archive
• Orbital Viewer Rendered Quantum Mechanics on Windows 3.1
• The Orchid Encyclopedia Grew to More Than 26,000 Species
• Orville the Mouse Became the Internet's First Electronaut
• Our Digital Heritage Preserved Ratbag Games' Corporate Site
• The Outhouses of America Tour Has Been Online Since 1996

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• P-Car Built a Porsche 993 DIY Library One Repair at a Time
• The Pace Taught Motorcyclists Not to Race the Street
• Pagat Has Been Cataloging Card Games Since 1995
• Paper CD Case Still Generates Printable Disc Sleeves
• A Parasol Mushroom Page Became a Lesson in Search-Engine Context
• ParkyTowers Turns Dead Thin Clients Into Useful Computers
• Paul Burgess Kept the Personal Homepage as a Place for Ideas
• Paul Cooijmans Built an Internet Empire Around IQ Tests, Music, Tarot and Himself
• Paul David Doherty's Adventure Page Became Reference Infrastructure for Interactive Fiction
• Paul Guy's Guitar Handbook Goes Deep on Why Guitars Refuse to Tune Perfectly
• Paul Hardy Turned a Career in Cartography Into a Personal Reference Archive
• Paul Rendell Built a Turing Machine Inside Conway's Game of Life
• PcFreaK Preserves a Small Hacker Crew's Old-School Manifesto
• Pekka Väänänen Rendered Quake on an Oscilloscope Through an Audio Jack
• PenCapChew.com Mapped Nirvana Fandom Before Social Media
• Pepsi Collector Turned Soda Packaging Into a Reference Archive
• Per-Bast Built an Egyptian Cat Goddess Shrine With IRC and XHTML
• Perfect Sound Forever Was Calling Out Bad Songs in 1997
• The Petawawa Legion Community Band Put Its Local History Online in 1998
• Pete Millett's Site Turns DIY Audio Engineering Into a Public Workbench
• Peter Yost Put Music, Organs, Photography, and Calligraphy Under One Roof
• Petra Cortright's Website Treats Bad HTML Taste as Part of the Artwork
• PhDelicious Reviewed Local Restaurants Like a Personal Field Notebook
• Phil's Old Radios Has Been Online Since 1995
• Philip Greenspun's Travel Pages Made a World Guide Before Travel Platforms
• Philip Kaluđerčić's SDF Homepage Keeps the Shell-Account Web Alive
• Philip Kraus Kept a Career in Operetta Online
• Phone Trips Streamed Payphone Sounds Before Podcasts Existed
• PhotographyHistory.com Keeps Antique Cameras From Becoming Unidentified Lumps
• A Physicist Spent Years Taking Star Wars Seriously
• PieMan Built 'Pie-berspace' for Performance Art
• Pieter Built a Real Anonymous FTP Server in 2026
• Pilish Turns the Digits of Pi Into English Prose
• Pinball News Archived the World's Pinball Shows One Report at a Time
• Pinball Rebel Built an Encyclopedia Around the Real Machines
• The Pink Floyd Archives Is What a Discography Looks Like After Decades
• Pirate Surgeon Spent Seven Pages on the Containers in a Medicine Chest
• PiSymbol.com Is a Perfectly Preserved Personal-Web Junk Drawer
• PlaneCrashInfo Built a Searchable History of Aviation Disasters
• Plato and His Dialogues Has Been Arguing With Plato Since 1996
• PlayTool Mapped the PC Power Connectors That Could Melt Your Hardware
• The Pleiadian Hoax Preserved an Old UFO Argument in Place
• The Poem Tree Preserved Metered Poetry With AOL-Era Charm
• Poets' Corner Has Been Transcribing Poetry Since 1994
• Polarization.com Built a Science Museum Around Invisible Light
• PoliceCanada.ca Built a Photo History of Canadian Police Cars
• Pontiac Performance Kept Obsolete Car Parts and Repair Knowledge Searchable
• PoopNames.com Gave an Entire Domain to One Stupid List
• Potomac Airfield Runs an Airport Website Like the FAA Is Listening
• Prehistory.it Is a Time Capsule of Early Online Archaeology
• Prem Subrahmanyam Built a Personal Fossil Museum
• The Primary Water Institute Kept a Disputed Hydrology Theory Alive Online
• Prince of Persia Unofficial Website Became a Fan-Run Technical Archive
• Princeton's Medieval Geomancy Page Preserves a Forgotten Divination System
• Professor Shoelace Built an Empire Around Knots
• Project E.U.N.U.C.H. Put a 25 MHz 486 in a Freezer
• Project GREAT Took Atomic Clocks on a Family Trip to Mount Rainier
• psDooM Let Sysadmins Shoot Processes
• PSDoom Turned Unix Processes Into Doom Monsters
• Purdue's Gold Foil Page Became a Durable Piece of Courseware
• Purdue's Old General Chemistry Help Site Still Explains Atoms and Ions
• PuTTY Kept Its 1990s Terminal Client Alive

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• Qalle Made Pixel Fonts Small Enough to Count by Hand
• The QBasic Games Directory Came Back From the Dead
• The QP7 Programming Page Preserved a GeoCities Coding Course
• Queen Christina Survived the Death of Ancient Sites
• QuickBASIC on FreeServers Kept Beginner Programming in Plain HTML

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• Raccoon Tracks Built a Small Library Around One Masked Mammal
• RACES Kept Amateur Radio Ready for the Day the Phones Failed
• Racinehistory.com Built a Family-Run Wisconsin History Archive
• Radio Boulevard Preserves the Machinery Behind Real RTTY
• Radiocraft Documented How to Bring 405-Line British Television Back to Life
• RailArchive Preserves Railroad History From the Photographer's Own Negatives
• RailroadMichigan Built a Noncommercial Photo History of Michigan Railroads
• RailroadSignals.us Is Preserving the Hardware Disappearing Beside the Tracks
• RAMA3D Built a Personal Science-Fiction CGI Gallery for Arthur C. Clarke Fans
• Rambles.NET Published 18,000 Reviews Without Becoming a Content Farm
• Rare Digital Watches Built a Museum of Calculator and Data-Bank Wrist Tech
• RCDB Has Been Measuring Roller Coasters Since 1996
• rcgldr Is What a Personal Homepage Used to Be
• The RCT Technical Depot Reverse-Engineered RollerCoaster Tycoon One File at a Time
• Rechenmaschinen-Illustrated Put the History of Calculating Machines Back Online
• A Red Dwarf Fan Site Froze Itself in 2005
• Reeder's Egypt Page Went Deep on the Weird Corners of Egyptology
• Rei's Random Birdie Info Still Feels Like Advice From an Actual Bird Owner
• The Ren and Stimpy Files Mapped Fandom Before the Web Won
• René Rondeau Has Been Collecting Phonographs Since 1961
• Reptoids Connected Real RAND Transit Papers to Secret Underground Trains
• RetroArchive Preserved the Working Files of BBS-Era Computing
• Retrotechnology and the Art of Keeping Old Computers Useful
• Revelation13.net Built a Prophecy Universe One HTML Page at a Time
• Rice's Latitude Site Turns Navigation History Into a Web Exhibit
• Rich Whitehouse Has Been Reverse-Engineering Weird Stuff in Public Since 2009
• Richard Bartle Saved the Paper Trail Behind MUDs
• Richard Eckert's Binghamton Homepage Left a Computer Science Classroom Online
• Richard Stallman Still Runs His Personal Site Like a Personal Site
• RiverVet Preserves the Mobile Riverine Force in First-Person Detail
• Rmitz Preserved Engineer Jokes, BBS Humor and Windows NT Errors
• RoadsideArchitecture.com Has 75,000 Photos of America's Vanishing Roadside
• RoadsideArchitecture.com Has Spent Decades Photographing the America We Keep Tearing Down
• RoadTrip97 Survives Through Hotlinked Photographs
• Robert Zverina's Picture of the Day Kept Web v.1 Alive Since 1997
• Robin Hanson's Great Filter Essay Is Still Sitting on a 1998 Academic Webpage
• The Robot Hut Turned One Man's Robot Collection Into a Web Museum
• Robotech Research Built an Unofficial Mecha Bible
• Robots and Computers Built a Robot Reference Before Robotics Went Mainstream
• RockTumbler.com Teaches Patience One Barrel of Grit at a Time
• Rod Crawford's Spider Journal Documents 55 Years of Fieldwork
• Rodent's Vengeance Kept Rodent's Revenge Alive in Java
• Roger Russell Documented McIntosh From the Inside
• Roman Aqueducts Is a Private Engineering Library for 2,000-Year-Old Water Systems
• RomanMilitary.net Built a Classroom Around the Legions
• Rome Art Lover Compares Vasi's 1747 Porta Pinciana With Modern Rome
• Rosemary Jacobs Turned a Medical Injury Into a Decades-Long Warning
• RossVW Built Registries for Volkswagens the Factory Records Didn't Explain
• ROT8000 Built ROT13 for the Unicode Generation
• Rowan Crowe's MoonRock BASIC Compiler Was Proudly Half Finished
• Ruben's SimTower Page Kept the Cheats for a Vertical City Alive
• Rulers.org Has Been Tracking Who Runs What Since 1996
• Runo's Cloth-Doll Site Kept Handmade Pattern Culture on the Open Web
• Russ Nelson's Homepage Connects Packet Drivers, Open Source, and the First Quaker Site
• Russell Hoffman's Nuclear Glossary Packed 300 Sources Into a 2002 Web Primer
• Ruud Helderman Teaches Text Adventures by Building One in C

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• Saint IGNUcius Turned Free Software Into Hacker Religion
• The Salem Witch Trials Archive Put the Primary Sources Online
• A Samurai Pizza Cats Fan Page Has Been Frozen Since 1996
• Save Walter White Escaped From Breaking Bad Into the Real Web
• Science Hobbyist Has Been Online Since 1994
• The Scientific Glassblowing Learning Center Saved a Trade
• Scirocco.org Preserved a Volkswagen Mailing List as a Technical Memory
• SeaForces Built a Hand-Made Naval Database
• Seed Biology Built a Specialist Research Shelf for Germination
• Sega's Original Sonic Adventure Site Still Feels Like a Dreamcast Plugged Into 1999
• SegaLand Preserved the Hardware Side of Sega Fandom
• SegaSoft's E3 1998 Photo Dump Caught the Trade Show Before Social Media
• Seinfeld Online Survived the 1990s Fan Web and Three Hosting Eras
• SGI's Developer Forum '95 Put a Conference on Three CDs
• The Shadowlands Built a Massive Sea Monster Index
• The Shadowlands Preserved Pyramid Mysteries Straight Out of Usenet
• Shannen-Doherty.net Preserved the Fan-Site Era—and the Star Used It
• Sheep 101 Built a Plain-English Sheep School on the Open Web
• Sheldon Brown Built a Bicycle Encyclopedia by Hand
• Shorthand Shorthand Shorthand Keeps Pen Stenography Writing at Speed
• Shroud.com Put Decades of Turin Shroud Research Online
• Side Blown Technologies Still Hand-Builds Bamboo Flutes on a Plain HTML Site
• Sidetalking Turned the N-Gage Into a Global Photo Joke
• Silicon Surf Preserved Silicon Graphics' 1994 Website From a CD
• Silkqin Built a Personal Library Around One Ancient Instrument
• Silvercollection.it Made Antique Hallmarks Searchable by Symbol
• The Simple Sailor Kept Ocean Voyaging Small
• Siphonophores.org Explains the Ocean Animal Made of Animals
• Slavery in the North Built a State-by-State History Reference
• The Sleipner A Disaster Page Is a 29-Line Warning About Bad Numerics
• Sliderule.ca Keeps the Calculator That Doesn't Add Alive
• Sloperama Built a Mah-Jongg Reference Library Out of FAQs
• SmallDollars.com Built a Reference Library Around America's Modern Dollar Coins
• A Smithsonian Gem Collection Survived as a Simple Image Index
• Smuggled.com Turned a 1996 Domain Into a Giant Personal Server Maze
• Solar System Collisions Lets You Throw Asteroids at Planets for Science
• Somebody Built a Giant 6502
• Somebody Cataloged Every Descent Robot Like a Field Guide
• Someone Photographed GeoCities' Server Cage in 1999
• The Somnolescent Archives Treats File Hoards Like Museum Pieces
• Sopwith.org Helped Keep a 1984 DOS Biplane Game Alive
• SPACEFACTS Built a Human Spaceflight Database by Hand
• SpaceWeather.com Has Been Watching the Sun Since the Web Was Young
• Spacious-Mind Built a Personal Museum of Chess Computers
• Spatula City Deliberately Froze Itself in 1998
• Splitting Images Is a Static-HTML Celebrity Double Agency
• Spoon Planet Built a 500-Exhibit Museum Out of Souvenir Spoons
• Sprott's Gateway Turns Chaos Physics Into a Public Laboratory
• SpyNumbers Cataloged the Voices, Beeps and Codes of Numbers Stations
• The SS Richard Montgomery Site Built a Private Archive Around a Dangerous WWII Wreck
• SSQQ Put a Houston Dance Studio Online in 1998 and Never Really Left
• Staggering Beauty Is One Worm and One Bad Idea
• Stanford's 1918 Influenza Site Preserved a 1997 Web Lesson
• Star Fighter 3000 Kept an Acorn Game Alive Long Enough to Outlive Its Hardware
• Star Wars vs. Star Trek Put Engineering Math Into Fandom
• The Starfleet Museum Treats Fan Fiction Like Naval History
• Starforts.com Made an Obsession Out of Pointy Forts
• StarLing DB Built a CGI Laboratory for Comparing Languages
• The Stars! FAQ Kept a 1990s Strategy Game Installable
• Stefanie Wiele's Homepage Preserved a World Championship in Shorthand
• Stein Collectors Built a Research Library for Beer Steins
• Steve's Old Computer Museum
• Stinkymeat2 Left Six Kinds of Meat to Rot in Public
• Stone Age Skills Tested 370 Hand-Drill Fire Combinations
• StonePages Put Europe’s Megaliths on the Web in 1995
• Stony Brook Turns Ancient Mazes Into Mathematics
• Street Fighter Paradise Is Keeping a 1994 White Wolf RPG Alive
• Stunts Fans Kept a 1990 DOS Racing Game Alive
• SubSITE Is Still a Labyrinth of SubGenius Internet Culture
• The Super Toy Archive Has Been Cataloging Weird Action Figures Since 1997
• Sweetbee's Zelda Outlands Page Captures ROM Hacking Before It Was Normal
• Syd Lexia Ranked 100 Virtual Boy Games When There Were Barely 20

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• TAAG Kept AOL Macro-Shop and FIGlet Fonts Alive
• TagYerit Built a Rabbit-Guitar Band Site and Toilet Paper Museum
• Takedown.com Preserves the Web Version of the Kevin Mitnick Hunt
• The Tale of Genji Maps a Thousand-Year-Old Novel Back Onto Japan
• Tap Lines Has Been Cataloging Southeastern Railroads Since 1996
• Taquitos.net Has Been Reviewing Snacks Since 2000
• Tatiana.info Is a 2000-Era Fan Site That Never Became a Feed
• The TeamTNT Memorial Keeps a Doom Modding Collective Online
• TECFAMOO Was a University Virtual World Before Virtual Classrooms Became Normal
• The Tesla Memorial Society Built a Niagara Falls Electrical-History Shrine
• The Test Card Gallery Remembers When Television Had to Show Its Work
• Tetsuo Kogawa Put Micro-Radio Transmitter Workshops on the Web
• The Tex Avery Tribute Kept a Cartoon Fan Site Alive
• The Texas Rainforest Preserve Made a Case for a Rainforest on the Gulf Coast
• Texas Water Towers Made Roadside Infrastructure Worth Stopping For
• TEXTFILES.COM Kept the BBS World Readable
• TEXTFILES.COM Saved the Under Construction GIF
• TextileAsArt Turned Antique Textiles Into a Hand-Built Web Catalog
• Thailand Fever Built a Bilingual Relationship Guide on the Web
• ThaiWorldView Became a Personal Atlas of Thailand and Hong Kong
• The Thalion Webshrine Rescued an Unreleased English Ambermoon
• The-Pope.com Kept a Field Guide to HTML's Extinct Tags
• theJANG's Old Texture Directory Points Back to Web Design in the 1990s
• ThemeParks.ie Is a Personal World Atlas of Amusement Parks
• Theodore Gray Turned the Periodic Table Into a Collection of Real Objects
• TheOldNet Put the Archived Web Back on Vintage Computers
• ThePipe.info Built a Museum Around a Space-Age Plastic Smoking Pipe
• Third Half Reviewed Bad Games Like a Friend Yelling From the Couch
• This 1970s Site Shared Old Commercials Before YouTube Existed
• This Anti-Santa Page Turned Christmas Into Spiritual Warfare
• This Boating Guide Was Tested in Netscape 2.0 for Unix
• This Dorothea Lange Gallery Keeps the Original FSA Captions
• This Polish Astronomy Site Tried to Use Quasars to Measure Dark Energy
• Thomas Tilley Built Game Controllers Out of Thai PVC Pipe
• Thompsonian Became Bill Thompson's Personal Historical Warehouse
• Thrower Was a Pioneering Knife-Throwing Community
• Tilde Club Has a Chicago Hot Dog Page and That Is the Point
• Tilde.club Put Personal Home Pages Back on a Shared Unix Box
• Tim's Home Page Turned One Man's Life Into Hundreds of Travel Pages
• Tim's Hong Kong Movie Reviews Kept the Personal Film Database Alive
• The Time Machine Project Keeps Rebuilding the 1960 Movie Prop
• Titanic Breakup Reconstructs the Ship's Failure from the Keel Up
• Titanic-Bot Got an Entire Web Page Because Somebody Bought a Terrible Toy
• ToastyTech Never Stopped Making Doom WADs
• ToastyTech's GUI Gallery Keeps Old Operating Systems Visible
• Tokyo Toilet Map Reviewed Public Restrooms in 1996
• Tony Jiang Wrote a Complete Super Smash Bros. N64 Guide
• Topher’s Castle Is a 1997 Homepage That Never Learned to Pick a Topic
• Total Hardware 99 Kept the Jumper Settings for Forgotten PC Cards
• Total Rewind Built a Virtual Museum for Video Formats That Lost
• The Totally Awesome Homepage Was Bad Web Design on Purpose
• TouringCarRacing.net Became a Citation Source for Racing History
• The Traffic Cone Preservation Society Classified Road Cones Like Wildlife
• Tramway Information Turned Model Trams Into a Technical Reference Library
• Trash Fiction Reviewed the Paperbacks Respectable Literature Left on the Rack
• Trenches on the Web Put World War I Casualty Figures Into a Table People Kept Citing
• TudorHistory.org Built a Personal Reference Library Before History Became Content
• Turbulence Turned Invisible Air Currents Into LED Light
• TuxKart Is the Linux Racer That Became SuperTuxKart
• Tyne Built Ships Kept a River of Shipbuilding Searchable
• The Typing Injury FAQ Documented RSI Before Ergonomics Became a Product Category

U

• U-boat Archive Is Still Growing
• The UK Rock Festival Archive Refuses to Forget the Field
• Under the Red Star Cataloged Soviet Uniform Caps Down to the Fakes
• Underground Homes Built a Rabbit Hole Below Ground
• The University of Illinois Put Concrete Into a Web Course
• UNSW Explained Why Sailboats Can Go Faster Than the Wind
• Urth.net Preserved Decades of Gene Wolfe Arguments in Plain Text
• USPaperMoney.Info Tracks the Serial Numbers Nobody Else Wanted to Catalog
• The USS Helena Organization Built a Shipmates' Memory Archive
• UTEP's Master List of Logical Fallacies Became a Durable Map of Bad Arguments
• The UUCP Project Mapped a Network Before the Internet Looked Like One
• UW-Madison's Virtual Foliage Preserves a University Botany Image Library

V

• V2Rocket.com Documents the Technology and the Horror
• V8SHO.com Turned a Ford Engine Failure Into an Owner-Built Database
• The Valve Museum Indexes 8,256 Vacuum Tubes and Keeps Counting
• Vangelis Collector Kept a 1983 Electronic Music Interview Searchable
• Vedge.org Is a Personal Homepage With a Machine Shop Attached
• VelmaDinkley.com Escaped ACMEcity and Kept the Fan Site Alive
• VGMusic Still Hosts 1,900 Nintendo 64 MIDI Files
• Victor Bryant Turned Decades of Ceramic History Into Web Tutorials
• Victor-Victrola Has Been Cataloging Talking Machines for Decades
• The Victorian Web Started Before the Web
• Video Games 101 Froze Console Specs in the Era That Cared About Bits
• Vince Weaver's Home Page Has Been Online for More Than 30 Years
• Vintage Calculators Became a Source for Real Museums
• Vintage Cassettes Catalogs 2,669 Sealed Tapes
• Vintage Pens Has Been Cataloging Fountain Pens Since 1997
• Vintage Technics Catalogs the Audio Hardware Normal Museums Ignore
• The Virtual Cave Built an Online Field Guide to Things That Grow Underground
• The Virtual Glass Museum Catalogs Glass Fishing Floats
• Virtual Saskatchewan Built an Independent Ezine About One Province
• Virtue Ventures Taught the Web How to Make Medieval Clothes
• Voyagerliveaction Turned Star Trek Fanfiction Into a Writers' Room
• Vulkaner.no Built a Dreamweaver Nature Encyclopedia With No Off Switch
• Vulkaner.no Is a Hand-Built Volcano Portal from the Webcam Era
• The VW Type 3 & 4 Owners Club Kept Obscure Volkswagens Repairable

W

• The W3C Still Hosts the XHTML2 Working Group's Dead Future
• W3C's Timeline of How the Web Happened
• W8JI Turned a Ham Shack Into an RF Engineering Textbook
• Walt Dated World Keeps Dead Disney Attractions Searchable
• The Warner Bros Cartoon Companion Explained the Jokes Time Erased
• Ways of Enlichenment Built an 11,593-Image Lichen Reference
• WB6NVH Built a Virtual Museum of Police and Mobile Radio
• The Web Gallery of Art Has Been a Virtual Museum Since 1996
• Web Japan Caught Pokémon Before It Became a Global Empire
• The Web's First Japanese Pizza Page Has Been Judging Mayonnaise Since 1995
• WebCars Turned One Car Guy's Obsessions Into a Reference Library
• WebHamster Preserves the Hampster Dance in All Its Looping Glory
• WebNeko Still Lets a Tiny Cat Chase Your Mouse
• The Website Obesity Crisis Was Warning Us in 2015
• WebWinds Preserved Late-1990s Ovid Chat Rooms
• WeirdCrap Preserved the Web's Chick Tract Parody Scene
• Wendy Carlos Built an Official Site That Feels Like an Actual Person
• The Wererat's Lair Kept Its Mid-1990s Web Design on Purpose
• The Werme Family Homepage Is What a Personal Website Used to Mean
• West Mansion Kept Splatterhouse Alive When the Series Was Basically Dead
• Whatsits Galore Still Updates a 2000-Era Fan Site
• WhipNet Archived Real Men of Genius Before Streaming Platforms
• Whirligig Keeps 1950s British Television Readable
• Whitehouse.gov1.info Built a Fake Presidential Missile Launch Console
• Whoosh! Treated Xena Fandom Like a Scholarly Journal
• WhoZoo Preserved Student-Written Animal Pages from the Early Web
• Wildflowers and Weeds Teaches Botany by Patterns
• William Verts Built a Homepage That Refused to Need Modernization
• Windows Refund Day Tried to Return the OS Nobody Asked For
• Wonderful World of Windows 3.1 Kept a Real 1990s PC Useful
• Woodgears Teaches Beginner Woodworking Without Selling You a Workshop
• Woodpecker Studio Mixed Woodcuts, Paper Craft, and Natural History
• Word Works Documented a 1970s Choice to Build the Simple Life
• World Naval Ships Tries to Index Every Navy One Ship at a Time
• The World of Kaoani Cataloged 3,685 Tiny Animated Emoticons
• World War 1 Naval Combat Is a Hand-Built Map of the North Sea War
• WorldTimeZone.com Built 37,000 Pages Because Time Zones Refuse to Be Simple
• WreckHunter Mapped More Than 200 New England Shipwreck Pages
• Wunderland Was a Webzine, a Game Company, and a House Full of Ideas
• WWWF Grudge Match Let the Internet Decide If Gumby Could Kill Mr. Bill

X

• The X-Files Episode Guide Still Looks Like a Fan Built It Because One Did
• XTeddy Kept a Unix Hacker's Personal Domain Useful
• XVR27 Built a Weird Al Database Before Fandom Had One Place to Live

Y

• Yarchive Saved Usenet Technical Knowledge Before It Scrolled Away
• YIP Put a Photocopied 1991 Zine on the Web and Kept the Weirdness Intact
• Yoda's Datapad Turned Star Wars Continuity Into a Spreadsheet
• The Yoshi Clubhouse Still Warns You That the Page Has Music
• Your Sky Is a Browser Planetarium from the CGI Era

Z

• Zat Solo's Deep Space Outpost Kept Frontier Alive
• ZeptoBars Opens the Black Box of Microchips
• Zhongwen.com Turned 4,000 Chinese Characters into Genealogy Trees
• ZMatrix Turned the Matrix Code Rain Into a Windows Desktop
• Zompist Tried to Prove English Spelling Has Rules
• Zoo Race Is a Free Noah's Ark Racing Game With Piranhas, Rockets, and Crow Poop
• Zusie Built an 8-Bit Computer From 1,500 Salvaged Telephone Relays
• Zzickle Transcribed Television One Episode at a Time

Keep exploring

These pages show how much of the web was made by people following particular interests, often without a platform telling them what to publish. Some original sites remain active; others survive only in fragments or archives. Follow the article links for the story behind each place, and keep a copy of anything you would hate to lose.

To explore what happens when online spaces close, become automated, or stop serving their communities, continue with Dead Internet Theory: The Series.