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In 2006, The $39 Experiment mailed 100 handwritten-style requests to 100 companies, tracked the responses publicly, and turned a roll of stamps into a strange little study of corporate generosity.
NOVA's surviving Island of the Sharks companion site preserves an early-2000s style of science education built from clickable diagrams, species indexes, dispatches, and small subject pages instead of one long article.
CloneKeen is a GPL reimplementation of Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons, written in C with SDL and ported far beyond the Windows and DOS machines where the original game lived.
The Alone in the Wilderness site preserves the biography behind Dick Proenneke's decades at Twin Lakes, from Navy carpentry and diesel work to the cabin he built by hand in Alaska and documented on film.
FishCam began in 1994 with a camera aimed at a fish tank inside Netscape and survives as one of the web's oldest continuous camera sites, still carrying the logic of the earliest webcam era.
McSpotlight launched in 1996 as a huge online archive around the McLibel trial, combining legal documents, campaign material, interviews, media coverage, and court records into an early activist information system.
DOS4Ever documents Ronald Dekker's Nixie clocks, tube testers, PIC projects, retro processors, restoration work, and electronics-history investigations in the dense project-page style that made the old technical web so useful.
Alex Bickmore's Super Toy Archive opened in 1997 and still preserves rare toys, obscure lines, unproduced pieces, unknown parts, contributor photos, and the WebRing-era culture of collector sites helping each other identify plastic history.
MrBreakfast.com has been serving breakfast material since 2002, growing from recipes and articles into a sprawling specialist site with thousands of recipes and a giant historical breakfast-cereal database.
SpaceWeather.com has tracked solar flares, auroras, sunspots, geomagnetic storms, fireballs, and near-Earth asteroids since the late 1990s, preserving a daily scientific news format that still feels like the classic web.
Internet Bumper Stickers preserves a late-1990s idea of social sharing: small downloadable slogan graphics meant to be pasted into websites, blogs, e-mail, and whatever other corner of the web would accept an image.
The National Opossum Society's orphan-care page is a blunt, practical emergency guide for people who find injured or pouch-young opossums, with first-aid instructions and repeated warnings not to improvise wildlife rehabilitation.
Spatula City is a deliberately preserved slice of early web humor: fake retail copy, bizarre links, amateur graphics, and a 1998 declaration that the site would remain static as a museum piece of the college-age web.
The Gnostic Society Library's Hermetic archive places the Corpus Hermeticum online with G. R. S. Mead's translation, tract-by-tract navigation, commentary, and text-only versions designed for reading rather than platform engagement.
Only Polly Pocket began as a family reference in 2000 and grew into a collector's guide organized by production year, playset, character, and accessory across the classic compact-toy era.
SeaForces is a sprawling naval reference site organized around ship classes, submarines, international fleets, naval aviation units, weapons systems, and special reports rather than a modern news-feed interface.
The Virtual Glass Museum's fishing-float archive documents the sizes, shapes, markings, countries, manufacturing methods, and collecting mysteries of the glass floats once used on fishing nets and lines.
Michigan State University's GEO 333 site turns a regional geography course into a dense web reference covering geology, glacial history, cities, boundaries, land use, settlement, maps, quizzes, and Great Lakes geography.
DriveMeInsane began in 1997 as a webcam experiment where strangers could remotely switch lights and other devices, watch the result, send messages, and participate in a deliberately pointless social home-automation project.
Blizzard's surviving Warcraft II strategy archive documents combat math, unit statistics, race matchups, water tactics, map editing, hotkeys, custom scenarios, and competitive multiplayer advice in a dense official web reference.