Whirligig preserves 1950s British television and radio history through programme pages, presenter biographies, commercials, memories, audio, video and material about shows whose original broadcasts often survive only imperfectly.
VintagePens.com launched in 1997 and grew into a working reference library for antique fountain pens, pencils, filling systems, repair, collecting, and writing-instrument history.
Mexicolore's Aztec pages grew from decades of school workshops into a large independent educational reference on the Mexica, Nahuatl language, archaeology, artefacts, daily life, religion, and the Spanish invasion.
Old-Games.com remains a huge browsable catalog of DOS, Amiga, arcade, strategy, simulation, role-playing, educational, sports, and other classic computer games with descriptions and downloads.
Carl Sabanski's mySundial.ca and Sundial Primer turn gnomonics into a deep practical reference covering dozens of sundial types, design geometry, corrections, templates, charts, and construction tools.
Floppy.museum is served from obsolete PC hardware running MS-DOS and a bootable floppy, squeezing a website, web server, FTP, IRC, networking, DESQView, and retro-media documentation into an intentionally absurd system.
Robert Nordsieck's Living World of Molluscs grew from a fascination with snails into a broad educational site on mollusc biology, including gastropods, bivalves, cephalopods, anatomy, classification, and natural history.
Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages document 117 spice plants with culinary use, history, chemistry, etymology, photographs, geography, botany, and more than 10,000 names across dozens of languages.
Fourmilab's Bending Spacetime in the Basement explains how a simple torsion balance can reveal the gravitational attraction between ordinary objects using the same basic principle behind Cavendish's classic experiment.
Don Coleman's Time Machine Project has documented the original 1960 MGM Time Machine prop, its restoration and appearances, fan-built replicas, museum installations, and detailed full-scale reproduction work since 1999.
Vintage-Technics.ru is a sprawling photographic catalog of vintage audio, recording, dictation, television, radio, surveillance, and portable electronics, including obscure Soviet, European, Japanese, and American equipment.
Noji's ham-radio section is a sprawling personal reference site covering licensing, equipment, repeaters, frequencies, nets, contesting, training, education, and the practical questions new amateur-radio operators actually ask.
20KRide.com is a fan-built archive devoted to Walt Disney World's former 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea attraction, preserving ride footage, crew interviews, audio, photos, and technical memories that official nostalgia pages usually skip.
Countach.ch is a specialist Lamborghini Countach reference built around ownership, maintenance, upgrades, model differences, and the practical hardware problems that appear once a poster car becomes an aging machine.
Francis Ow's surviving origami site preserves decades of folding work, especially geometric designs, modular pieces, letterfolds, and the heart models for which the Singaporean designer became widely known.
Action Squad is an old-school Minneapolis and Saint Paul urban-exploration archive built from missions into tunnels, mines, abandoned industrial sites, utility spaces, and other pieces of infrastructure most people pass without seeing.
WorldTimeZone.com has spent more than 28 years turning changing time-zone rules, daylight-saving changes, world clocks, maps, call planners, and date-line history into a massive specialist reference site.
Created in February 1996, Monty Python's Completely Useless Web Site is an unauthorized fan archive packed with scripts, episode material, images, sounds, video clips, album information, and artifacts from early fandom on the web.
Walt Dated World has documented extinct and changed Walt Disney World attractions since 2001, preserving ride histories, scripts, photos, cast memories, unbuilt concepts, and details that vanished with the parks themselves.
The BOFH web archive preserves Simon Travaglia's long-running Bastard Operator From Hell stories, a foundational piece of sysadmin humor built from backups, users, bosses, printers, helpdesks, network failures, and weaponized technical competence.