Ancient Web: The Old Calculator Museum
The Old Calculator Web Museum has been online since 1997, documenting early electronic calculators with hand-written HTML, working machines, manuals, advertisements, and memories from the people who built them.
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Ancient Web: Multiplayer SimCity on X11
Don Hopkins' surviving SimCity pages preserve the strange and excellent history of a networked Unix version of SimCity, complete with old screenshots, transcripts, documentation, and a demo mode that melted your city every five minutes.
Ancient Web: The First Website Still Explains the Web
CERN preserves the historic address of the first World Wide Web page, a tiny document that explained the Web itself when browsers, servers, HTML, and URLs were still new ideas.
Ancient Web: The IBM 1401 Restoration Site
The IBM 1401 restoration website documents two working 1960s mainframes with manuals, repair notes, oral histories, schematics, photographs, software, and years of volunteer work. It feels less like a homepage than a machine room rendered in HTML.
Ancient Web: Early Radio History Has Been Online Since 1996
Thomas H. White's United States Early Radio History site has been online since 1996, collecting original research and period material about radio, telegraphy, broadcasting, regulation, callsigns, and the strange years when wireless communication was still being invented.
Ancient Web: The NES Color Problem
FirebrandX's NES Composite Palette Project documents years of work trying to reproduce the colors of original Nintendo hardware across CRTs, emulators, RGB mods, and modern displays. The problem is much messier than picking 64 nice colors.
Ancient Web: U-boat Archive Is Still Growing
U-boat Archive preserves documents and photographs from the World War II submarine war and was still adding German patrol records in 2026. It is the kind of specialist historical site that becomes more useful every year it refuses to disappear.
Ancient Web: Somebody Built a Giant 6502
The MOnSter 6502 project recreates the classic MOS 6502 processor at transistor scale on a 12-by-15-inch circuit board with thousands of visible components. It turns an integrated circuit back into something you can point at.
Ancient Web: TEXTFILES.COM Kept the BBS World Readable
Jason Scott started TEXTFILES.COM in 1998 to preserve BBS-era text files he had collected in his youth. The project grew into a huge archive of computer culture built around a simple idea: copies survive.
Ancient Web: Steve's Old Computer Museum
Steve's Old Computer Museum presents around 150 vintage computers with photographs, specifications, prices, advertisements, and short histories. The collection captures how wildly different personal computers looked before beige boxes won the argument.
Ancient Web: The Coffee Pot That Became a Webcam
Cambridge's Trojan Room coffee machine became one of the earliest famous webcam subjects, turning a mundane office problem into a piece of Web history.
Ancient Web: The Jet-Powered Beer Cooler
In 2001, Simon Jansen documented a homemade jet engine used for the extremely serious engineering problem of cooling beer in a New Zealand shed.
Ancient Web: Phil's Old Radios Has Been Online Since 1995
Phil's Old Radios launched in 1995 and still documents antique radios and televisions through restoration articles, galleries, beginner guides, and practical repair information.
Ancient Web: The Handheld Game Museum Never Threw Anything Away
The Electronic Handheld Game Museum catalogs decades of pre-smartphone portable games, including manuals, internal photographs, prototypes, movie appearances, manufacturers, and old Web-ring debris.
Ancient Web: Retrotechnology and the Art of Keeping Old Computers Useful
Herb Johnson's Retrotechnology site documents the repair, restoration, history, and reuse of 1970s and 1980s computers, with deep material on S-100 systems, Digital Research, CP/M, and vintage hardware.
Ancient Web: W3C's Timeline of How the Web Happened
W3C's old Web-history timeline traces the path from hypertext ideas and Tim Berners-Lee's 1989 proposal through browsers, servers, Mosaic, and the founding of the World Wide Web Consortium.
Ancient Web: Daniel Stenberg's History of IRC
Daniel Stenberg's long-running IRC history traces Internet Relay Chat from Jarkko Oikarinen's first server in 1988 through early networks, splits, RFC 1459, Undernet, DALnet, and the social problems that shaped the protocol.
Ancient Web: Pagat Has Been Cataloging Card Games Since 1995
Pagat has documented traditional card and tile games from around the world since 1995, organizing rules by name, player count, mechanism, objective, equipment, and region.
Ancient Web: Sheldon Brown Built a Bicycle Encyclopedia by Hand
Sheldon Brown's sprawling personal site became an enduring technical reference for bicycle repair, drivetrains, wheels, fixed gear, old bikes, commuting, touring, and the culture around maintaining machines yourself.
Ancient Web: Professor Shoelace Built an Empire Around Knots
Ian Fieggen turned a personal website into an enormous specialist reference about shoelaces, knots, lacing methods, tiny Windows utilities, computer graphics, and whatever else he felt was worth publishing.