Ancient Web: The First Church of Grady Booch Made Object-Oriented Design a Religion
A 1997 programmer joke turned Grady Booch's object-oriented modeling language into a church, complete with inheritance, superclasses, and a Booch Bible.
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Ancient Web: Davar Grew a Personal Reference Library Instead of Building a Website
Davar.net began in 1997 as a personal information garden covering programming, Go, Zen, quotations, UNIX, mainframes, Russian literature, humor, and whatever else its creator wanted close at hand.
Ancient Web: Machine Learning in Games Kept the Old AI Reading List Alive
Jay Scott's Machine Learning in Games collected game-playing AI research, programs, papers, people, competitions, and techniques long before today's AI boom.
Ancient Web: FlintSource Mapped the Rocks Behind Prehistoric Tools
FlintSource.NET has spent 25 years documenting flint, chert, radiolarite, quartzite and obsidian sources with photographs, coordinates, geology and field notes.
Ancient Web: Orville the Mouse Became the Internet's First Electronaut
In January 2003, Jean-Louis Naudin put a mouse named Orville aboard a high-voltage electrokinetic lifter and documented the flights on the Web.
Ancient Web: Masters of Melody Preserved the BBC Orchestras Radio Forgot
Brian Reynolds built Masters of Melody to document British radio studio orchestras, bands, ensembles and broadcasts that largely vanished from mainstream memory.
Ancient Web: Ark Two Buried 42 School Buses Under Concrete for the End of the World
The Ark Two Community documented a 10,000-square-foot Ontario fallout shelter built around 42 buried school buses, complete with maps, construction photos and recovery plans.
Ancient Web: Homo Ludens Built a Homepage for Every Hobby One Man Could Collect
Manfred Mornhinweg's Homo Ludens homepage branches into amateur radio, antique radios, electronics, flying, photography, music, model airplanes, mechanics, kayaking and more.
Ancient Web: The Pleiadian Hoax Preserved an Old UFO Argument in Place
A 2006 UFOData article criticizing Billy Meier's famous Pleiadian photographs survives online together with a detailed rebuttal from a Meier advocate.
Ancient Web: Old Bricks Turned Stamped Clay Into an Industrial History Database
David Kitching's Brocross site hosts Old Bricks: History at Your Feet, a community-built reference with more than 10,000 named brick images tied to makers, works and industrial history.
Ancient Web: ConcordeSST Became a Living Technical Museum Before the Jets Retired
ConcordeSST.com preserves a dense technical and historical record of the supersonic airliner, including material assembled while Concorde was still flying.
Ancient Web: KnotPlot Has Been Turning Mathematics Into 3D Knots Since the 1990s
Robert Scharein's KnotPlot site grew from PhD work into a sprawling visual laboratory for mathematical knots, links, stereoscopic images, and topology software.
Ancient Web: RailArchive Preserves Railroad History From the Photographer's Own Negatives
Richard Leonard's Rail Archive combines personal 1950s railroad photography with scans of historic railroad booklets, manuals, catalogs, and contributed images.
Ancient Web: ToastyTech Never Stopped Making Doom WADs
ToastyTech's Doom pages preserve decades of custom levels, alpha screenshots, joke skins, unfinished experiments, and the stubborn afterlife of a 1993 game.
Ancient Web: The Castlevania Dungeon Still Wants 800x600 and 64K Colors
The preserved Castlevania Dungeon keeps a 1997-era fan site intact, complete with frames, font downloads, game guides, fan material, and years of community history.
Ancient Web: Shorthand Shorthand Shorthand Keeps Pen Stenography Writing at Speed
Shorthand Shorthand Shorthand has been teaching and documenting Gregg, Pitman, Speedwriting, and pen stenography online since 1999.
Ancient Web: Chicon 2000 Left an Entire Worldcon Online
The surviving Chicon 2000 website preserves the logistics, guests, program culture, rules, songs, and Web design of the 58th World Science Fiction Convention.
Ancient Web: The Victorian Web Started Before the Web
The Victorian Web grew out of an academic hypertext project begun before the World Wide Web and later became a vast linked reference on Victorian literature, history, art, technology, and culture.
Ancient Web: MicroMac Is a Frozen Catalog of Mac Upgrades That Once Made Sense
MicroMac's surviving site preserves the strange, ingenious upgrade market that kept 1980s and 1990s Macintosh hardware useful through accelerators, logic-board swaps, cache cards, and oversized SIMMs.
Ancient Web: 440 International Kept Radio People and Radio History Searchable
440 International preserves an old radio-industry directory, broadcaster whereabouts, daily media-history material, and the texture of radio culture before social profiles replaced specialist directories.