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MadSci Network began in 1995 as a student-run science-literacy project and grew into a volunteer Ask-a-Scientist archive covering tens of thousands of questions, from ordinary classroom problems to wonderfully strange curiosities.
David Fifield's 'A better zip bomb' page explains a 2019 compression trick that makes a ZIP file explode from 10 MB to 281 TB without relying on nested archives.
Tony Jiang's hand-built Super Smash Bros. guide covers every N64 character, stage, item and multiplayer strategy in a mostly text-based fan site he began after buying the game in 2003.
Dave Plimmer's 2D53 documents North Wales main-line railways with photographs from 1975-1983, timetables, signalling material, headcodes and extracts from official railway documents.
WhipNet built a fan archive around Bud Light's Real American Heroes and Real Men of Genius radio ads, preserving MP3s, lyrics and a 2003 newspaper article in gloriously period HTML.
A 2017 TTTThis essay argued that search engines had become excellent at answering questions while making it harder to stumble into personal websites you never knew to search for.
Mushroom-Collecting.com's parasol page documented both edible parasol mushrooms and dangerous lookalikes, then became an accidental example of how image search can strip warnings away from the image it indexes.
Nokiamies maintains an old-browser-friendly personal site about vintage phones and hardware, including a dedicated page for Nokia's glow-in-the-dark 2003 Nokia 3100.
Paul Hardy's personal site gathers decades of cartography papers, mapping work, traditional-music tunebooks and other specialist material that would otherwise be scattered across institutions and formats.
Early Web Links is a modern human-curated directory built to recover the wandering, category-browsing experience of the pre-platform web, with more than 12,000 sites cataloged.
Pieter.com runs a real anonymous FTP server as a non-commercial preservation project, reviving the direct file-browsing experience modern browsers abandoned years ago.
NES City is a surviving early-2000s Nintendo fan site whose update archive still preserves AIM icons, desktop wallpapers, IRC rooms, RSS experiments, fan shrines, and the small-site culture around the NES revival.
Zat Solo's Deep Space Outpost was an early fan resource for Elite, Frontier: Elite II, and Frontier: First Encounters, repeatedly cited by players before modern game wikis and community hubs existed.
rcgldr.net is Jeff Reid's plain personal archive of radio-control gliders, cars, gymnastics, racing-game mods, savefiles, source code, and whatever else he decided belonged on his corner of the web.
Splitting Images preserves a very old-school British celebrity-lookalike agency as hundreds of simple individual pages for impersonators, famous doubles, and professional event performers.
Philip Kraus's personal site preserves a long career in opera, operetta, Gilbert and Sullivan, directing, translating, and reviving neglected stage works through plain static biography pages.
Guns & Sand turned one of Alan Wagner's absurd fake organizations into a functioning website, complete with slogans, membership language, gun imagery, sand enthusiasm, and years of confused internet reactions.
AJFroggie became a long-running personal highway-history resource covering Interstate planning, route histories, maps, proposals, and transportation details later cited by other road-history references.
Voyagerliveaction preserved a collaborative Star Trek role-playing and fanfiction project begun in 2000, with multiple writers producing episode-style stories across Trek series long before modern fanfic platforms standardized the experience.
John Opsopaus's online Pythagorean Theology project turns a dense personal study of ancient philosophy, ritual, symbolism, and later esoteric interpretation into a deeply linked old-style web text.