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Ancient Web: MedievalWarfare.info Built a Giant Reference Maze

MedievalWarfare.info is an old-school specialist reference site linking battles, castles, sieges, armour, logistics, crusades, military organization, re-enactment, and source material into one dense hand-built web of medieval history.

Ancient Web: Karl Sims Evolved Creatures Before Generative AI Had a Name

Karl Sims's long-running personal site still hosts the 1990s work that made virtual creatures swim, walk, jump, and compete through simulated evolution rather than hand animation.

Ancient Web: Electronixandmore Grew Out of an AOL Antique Radio Page

Electronixandmore began in late 1999 as a small AOL-hosted antique-radio page and grew into a hand-built online museum of radios, televisions, computers, projects, and disappearing electronics technology.

Ancient Web: TEXTFILES.COM Saved the Under Construction GIF

TEXTFILES.COM preserves a giant collection of the animated Under Construction graphics that once warned visitors a personal web page was unfinished, changing, and very much alive.

Ancient Web: NebraskaAirCrash Maps the Places Where Planes Never Came Home

Jerry Penry's NebraskaAirCrash.com documents military and civilian aviation accidents across Nebraska with crash-site visits, reports, maps, photographs, memorials, and names.

Ancient Web: Siphonophores.org Explains the Ocean Animal Made of Animals

Siphonophores.org is a specialist biology site explaining the colonial deep-sea animals whose genetically identical bodies specialize into feeding, swimming, reproduction, and other jobs.

Ancient Web: This Dorothea Lange Gallery Keeps the Original FSA Captions

The History Place's Dorothea Lange gallery pairs 42 prewar Farm Security Administration photographs of migrant families with their original captions instead of reducing the Depression to one famous image.

Ancient Web: Don Eyles Explains What the Apollo 11 Computer Alarms Actually Meant

Apollo programmer Don Eyles's long technical paper explains the Lunar Module guidance computer from the inside, including the 1201/1202 alarms, software restarts, throttle instability, and the tiny memory budget that still landed astronauts on the Moon.

Ancient Web: The Lighthouse Directory Has 24,800 Lights and Keeps Counting

The Lighthouse Directory began in 1999 during the relocation of Cape Hatteras Light and now catalogs more than 24,800 lighthouses worldwide with history, operating data, preservation notes, access information, and tens of thousands of links.

Ancient Web: Australian Valve Amps Is Part Repair Bench, Part History Book

Australian Valve Amps has spent more than twenty years documenting Australian and New Zealand guitar and PA amplifiers with circuits, photographs, repair notes, safety guidance, oddities, and hand-coded HTML.

Ancient Web: The Pace Taught Motorcyclists Not to Race the Street

Nick Ienatsch's influential essay The Pace escaped the pages of Motorcyclist into old motorcycle websites, where its argument for fast but noncompetitive street riding became a durable piece of rider culture.

Ancient Web: The Nuclear Weapon Archive Started as a 1994 University Site

A nuclear-weapons reference site that began on a university server in 1994 survived shutdowns, migrations, mirrors, and three decades of the Web.

Ancient Web: Beastie’s Official Home Explains Why the BSD Daemon Is Not Chuck

Marshall Kirk McKusick’s old-school site preserves the BSD daemon’s artwork, shirt history, permissions, and one very persistent naming myth.

Ancient Web: A 2000 Pokémon Page Explained the Seizure Incident With Actual Neuroscience

A University of Washington Neuroscience for Kids page from 2000 used the infamous Pokémon broadcast incident to explain photosensitive seizures and visual processing.

Ancient Web: Admiral Furashita Built an Entire Japanese Navy That Never Existed

CombinedFleet.com preserves Craig Burke’s fictional Imperial Japanese warships, built for a sprawling World War II naval wargame and documented like real vessels.

Ancient Web: Mario Kart 64 Shortcuts Were Once Traded by Email

David Wonn’s surviving Mario Kart 64 shortcut page records discoveries, rumors, arguments, emails, and glitch culture from the game’s first year.

Ancient Web: The Thalion Webshrine Rescued an Unreleased English Ambermoon

A fan site built around a dead German game studio became part of the preservation story when it helped surface the lost English beta of Ambermoon.

Ancient Web: Louis Kessler Has Been Keeping His Personal Website Since 1997

Louis Kessler’s personal site still carries its own changelog back through Web rings, hit counters, genealogy links, chess pages, family fan sites, and 1990s search-engine life.

Ancient Web: Ceder.net Turned Square Dancing Into a Giant Searchable Database

Vic and Debbie Ceder’s Square Dance Resource Net grew into a sprawling collection of calls, clubs, callers, choreography, events, music, cue sheets, and old dance definitions.

Ancient Web: Ansilove Kept BBS Art Readable in Modern Browsers

Ansilove began as one artist’s converter for old ANSI and ASCII scene files, then grew into a preservation toolkit for rendering BBS-era art on modern systems.