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Graphite Galaxy preserves hands-on amateur telescope material, including observing notes, equipment projects, collimation tools, optical alignment, and DIY accessories built from inexpensive materials instead of purchased as finished astronomy products.
The Victor-Victrola Page documents Victor Talking Machine Company phonographs from 1901 through 1929 with model data, design details, valuations, repair guidance, and a research database whose roots go back to 1978.
Modern-Airships.info grew from a 1996 encounter with a WDL advertising blimp into a personal photo archive of blimps, Zeppelin NT aircraft, hot-air airships, test flights, ferry flights, passenger operations, and airship events.
DoomGate is a German-language Doom reference site packed with maps, WAD information, version notes, cheat codes, BFG documentation, console material, editing guidance, downloads, FAQs, and mirrors from the long-running Doom community.
Ken Silverman's Voxlap page documents a voxel-based 3D engine begun in 2000, with demos, screenshots, source code, editors, rendering features, old DOS experiments, and the author's long-running argument that cubes could still compete with polygons.
Music in the Afghan North publishes Mark Slobin's Afghanistan fieldwork in layers, combining summaries, excerpts, a complete 1976 book, photographs, film clips, and audio from research conducted between 1967 and 1972.
Akiyoshi Kitaoka's illusion pages have been online since 2002, combining perception research, famous motion and color illusions, papers, catalogs, experiments, educational material, and continually updated visual work.
The Greek Age of Bronze is a specialist reconstruction site covering Late Helladic weapons, armour, shields, chariots, archery, archaeological finds, iconography, Linear B evidence, and warfare from roughly 1600 to 1100 BC.
Henning Umland's CelNav site preserves a compact guide to celestial navigation with tutorials, freeware, links, and a homepage whose visitor counter dates back to May 1997.
Geoff Fors's WB6NVH site preserves detailed histories of California Highway Patrol radios, Bell System car telephones, Motorola and GE land-mobile equipment, forestry radios, obscure portable sets, wiring information, and restoration references.
Blake Patterson's SGI O2 page preserves photographs, screenshots, hardware details, and the exact hinv output of a Silicon Graphics workstation built around a 175 MHz MIPS R10000, 256 MB of RAM, SCSI storage, video hardware, and a 1600SW flat panel.
James Grout's Encyclopaedia Romana has been online since April 1997, using densely linked essays to wander through Roman history, architecture, religion, food, Britain, Greece, Byzantium, and whatever historical side road proved interesting enough to follow.
Clint Sprott's University of Wisconsin web server combines chaos theory, fractal galleries, DOS software, technical papers, physics lectures, MIDI files, amateur radio, and automatically generated strange attractors into one sprawling academic personal site.
DriveInTheater.com preserves drive-in theater history through theater listings, Route 66 material, old advertisements, concession-stand culture, intermission clips, and the kind of nostalgic local information that rarely fits inside a modern movie database.
Eric Isaacson's A86/A386 and D86/D386 pages preserve a complete commercial x86 assembler and debugger ecosystem built for DOS and early Windows, including downloads, source libraries, Win32 examples, and support for processors from the 8088 through the Pentium III and Athlon.
Stone Age Skills documents a hands-on friction-fire experiment comparing dozens of spindle woods, four hearthboard materials, wood density, green and dead growth, and 370 possible hand-drill combinations without using metal tools.
Astronomy Picture of the Day has been edited by Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell since 1995, building a daily archive of annotated astronomy images alongside a hand-built subject index covering stars, galaxies, nebulae, planets, observatories, spacecraft, scientists, and astronauts.
PiSymbol.com is a hand-built personal site full of fake horoscopes, Top Ten lists, TV trivia, random-number generators, Pi calculators, satire, household weather monitoring, and exactly the kind of unrelated material the old web happily kept under one roof.
Fred Espenak's MrEclipse photography guide spans film and digital techniques for lunar eclipses, including wide-angle shots, star trails, multiple exposures, telephoto work, exposure tables, focal-length planning, and the Danjon brightness scale.
RomanMilitary.net has organized Roman army history since the late 1990s around weapons, armor, siege engines, forts, formations, tactics, soldier life, historical figures, quizzes, essay questions, and teacher resources.