Article index # Articles Authoritative and analytical writing about technology, systems, and local life. [Articles RSS](https://switchboardtechservices.com/feeds/articles.xml "Subscribe using an RSS reader") [![Right to Repair in Missouri](https://switchboardtechservices.com/media/assets/2026/09/lego-man-repair-shop.jpg)](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/right-to-repair/) ## [Right to Repair in Missouri](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/right-to-repair/) An introduction to the right-to-repair movement in Missouri, focusing on access to parts, manuals, and diagnostic tools and why independent repair matters to local communities. [Read more →](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/right-to-repair/) [![Ancient Web: The Collection](https://switchboardtechservices.com/media/assets/2026/10/e613df2408954fa2a5192777db89a7dc.webp)](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-collection/) ## [Ancient Web: The Collection](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-collection/) October 18, 2026 Browse 1,765 Ancient Web articles about surviving personal sites, fan projects, technical archives, and other distinctive corners of the early web, organized alphabetically. [Read more →](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-collection/) ## [Ancient Web: Zorotl Gave an Eiffel 65 Video Alien His Own Online Epic](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-zorotl-gave-an-eiffel-65-video-alien-his-own-online-epic/) October 18, 2026 The official Zorotl site turns an alien from Eiffel 65's Blue music video into a fictional musician with a family history, spaceship crew and chapter-by-chapter biography. [Read more →](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-zorotl-gave-an-eiffel-65-video-alien-his-own-online-epic/) ## [Ancient Web: Zompist's Barakhinei Was a 1999 Linguistic Atlas of an Imaginary Country](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-zompists-barakhinei-was-a-1999-linguistic-atlas-of-an-imaginary-country/) October 18, 2026 Mark Rosenfelder's 1999 Barakhinei grammar documents a fictional language with its own alphabet, sound changes, gendered dialects and historical literature. [Read more →](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-zompists-barakhinei-was-a-1999-linguistic-atlas-of-an-imaginary-country/) ## [Ancient Web: Zompist Collected the Strangest Sentences in Old Phrasebooks](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-zompist-collected-the-strangest-sentences-in-old-phrasebooks/) October 18, 2026 Mark Rosenfelder's phrasebook page inventories unexpectedly specific sample sentences from real travel guides spanning many languages and decades. [Read more →](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-zompist-collected-the-strangest-sentences-in-old-phrasebooks/) ## [Ancient Web: Zombo.com Turned the Flash Introduction Into the Entire Site](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-zombo-com-promised-everything-with-an-endless-flash-intro/) October 18, 2026 Zombo.com began in 1999 as a sustained joke about fashionable animated website introductions and promises of unlimited possibilities. [Read more →](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-zombo-com-promised-everything-with-an-endless-flash-intro/) ## [Ancient Web: zlib Kept 1995 Compression Source Files on a Living Homepage](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-zlib-kept-1995-compression-source-files-on-a-living-homepage/) October 18, 2026 zlib's long-lived home page preserves a free compression library, RFC-era technical documents, a developer FAQ and original distribution archives dating to 1995. [Read more →](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-zlib-kept-1995-compression-source-files-on-a-living-homepage/) ## [Ancient Web: Zippyweb Let a Corgi Run a 1997 Personal Website](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-zippyweb-let-a-corgi-run-a-1997-personal-website/) October 18, 2026 Zippyweb began in 1997 as a playful online home for a Pembroke Welsh Corgi, complete with a first-person journal, guest messages and homemade browser games. [Read more →](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-zippyweb-let-a-corgi-run-a-1997-personal-website/) ## [Ancient Web: ZboX Brought a 1998 Amiga onto the 2010s Web](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-zbox-brought-a-1998-amiga-onto-the-2010s-web/) October 18, 2026 The ZboX personal homepage documents a beloved Amiga 1200, its wireless networking upgrades and a month spent revisiting games on the original hardware. [Read more →](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-zbox-brought-a-1998-amiga-onto-the-2010s-web/) ## [Ancient Web: Zapatopi's 1997 Foil Beanie Made Paranoia Into a Manual](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-zapatopis-1997-foil-beanie-made-paranoia-into-a-manual/) October 18, 2026 Lyle Zapato's Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie spoof began in 1997 and grew into an elaborate mock guide, historical timeline and reader-testimonial archive. [Read more →](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-zapatopis-1997-foil-beanie-made-paranoia-into-a-manual/) ## [Ancient Web: Zanzarah's 2002 Site Offered a Fairy Battle by Email](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-zanzarahs-2002-site-offered-a-fairy-battle-by-email/) October 18, 2026 Funatics Software's period website for Zanzarah: The Hidden Portal preserved the developer's interviews, download promotions, fairy-battle game and April 2002 release announcements. [Read more →](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-zanzarahs-2002-site-offered-a-fairy-battle-by-email/) ## [Ancient Web: Yvette's 2010 Bridal Site Refused to Stop Saying Hello](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-yvettes-2010-bridal-site-refused-to-stop-saying-hello/) October 18, 2026 A preserved 2010 Florida bridal-shop website displays a joyous storm of pink links, local search phrases, pageant photos, recipes and an email-powered guestbook. [Read more →](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-yvettes-2010-bridal-site-refused-to-stop-saying-hello/) ## [Ancient Web: Yerf Rescued Fifty Thousand Furry Artworks After a Crash](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-yerf-rescued-fifty-thousand-furry-artworks-after-a-crash/) October 18, 2026 The Yerf Historical Archive reconstructs a 1996–2004 all-ages furry art community after its original server lost its data, preserving thousands of artists' work. [Read more →](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-yerf-rescued-fifty-thousand-furry-artworks-after-a-crash/) ## [Ancient Web: Yasuo Shimura’s Kites Turned the Sky into an Art Gallery](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-yasuo-shimuras-kites-turned-the-sky-into-an-art-gallery/) October 18, 2026 A Japanese kite gallery last updated in August 2000 documents Yasuo Shimura's painted Edo kites, from dragons and warriors to lucky carp. [Read more →](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-yasuo-shimuras-kites-turned-the-sky-into-an-art-gallery/) ## [Ancient Web: XXIIVV Turned a 2008 Personal Wiki into a Memory Machine](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-xxiivv-turned-a-2008-personal-wiki-into-a-memory-machine/) October 18, 2026 Devine Lu Linvega's wiki, founded in 2008, preserves project diaries, philosophical notes and an unusual argument for durable small-software publishing. [Read more →](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-xxiivv-turned-a-2008-personal-wiki-into-a-memory-machine/) ## [Ancient Web: xkcd Readers Turned Roller-Coaster Chess into a Photo Gallery](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-xkcd-readers-turned-roller-coaster-chess-into-a-photo-gallery/) October 18, 2026 Randall Munroe's 2007 chess-on-a-roller-coaster comic prompted readers to send photographs of improbable games, preserved on a personal-style xkcd gallery. [Read more →](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-xkcd-readers-turned-roller-coaster-chess-into-a-photo-gallery/) ## [Ancient Web: XCOMUFO Preserved the Troubleshooting Era of UFO Defense](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-xcomufo-preserved-the-troubleshooting-era-of-ufo-defense/) October 18, 2026 XCOMUFO collects game fixes, save-editing information, strategy references and fan writing for the original X-COM: UFO Defense, alongside a revealing 2012 remake diary. [Read more →](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-xcomufo-preserved-the-troubleshooting-era-of-ufo-defense/) ## [Ancient Web: wttr.in Made a Weather Report Fit Inside a Terminal](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-wttr-in-made-a-weather-report-fit-inside-a-terminal/) October 17, 2026 Igor Chubin's wttr.in brought plain-text and ANSI-art weather reports to command-line browsers, turning a simple URL into a long-running open-source service. [Read more →](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-wttr-in-made-a-weather-report-fit-inside-a-terminal/) ## [Ancient Web: WTC7.net Preserved a Single-Building Online Debate](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-wtc7-net-preserved-a-single-building-online-debate/) October 17, 2026 Jim Hoffman's early-2000s WTC7.net preserves the navigation, citations and disputed arguments of a narrowly focused online advocacy website. [Read more →](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-wtc7-net-preserved-a-single-building-online-debate/) ## [Ancient Web: Working Goats Taught the Internet to Give Goats Jobs](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-working-goats-taught-a-2004-internet-to-give-goats-jobs/) October 17, 2026 Marna Kazmaier's Working Goats site began in the 2000s and collects practical information about goat carts, backpacks, agility, training and coat patterns. 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