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Ancient Web: InterGuru Still Converts Address Books From Eudora, Pine, Elm, and AOL

InterGuru has been converting address books between long-obsolete mail programs since 1996, preserving a wonderfully specific utility from the era when moving contacts between programs was its own technical problem.

Ancient Web: Victor Bryant Turned Decades of Ceramic History Into Web Tutorials

Ceramic Studies is a hand-built collection of illustrated pottery-history tutorials by Victor Bryant, combining archaeology, materials, art history, and practical notes for potters.

Ancient Web: Keno.org Still Carries a 1990s Rolling Stones Message Board

Keno.org preserves a long-running Rolling Stones fan community, old CGI message-board infrastructure, retired web-design pages, and a surprisingly complete record of how independent fan sites actually operated.

Ancient Web: Nindestruct Put Its 1998 Nine Inch Nails Geocities Site Back Online

Nindestruct preserves its own 1998 Nine Inch Nails fan site and other pieces of the late-1990s 'NINternet,' including fan archives, old news pages, discographies, scans, Flash material, and link culture.

Ancient Web: RiverVet Preserves the Mobile Riverine Force in First-Person Detail

RiverVet preserves photographs, unit history, training memories, operations, medical support, and first-person material from veterans of the U.S. Mobile Riverine Force in Vietnam.

Ancient Web: WreckHunter Mapped More Than 200 New England Shipwreck Pages

WreckHunter is a hand-built New England shipwreck guide with more than 200 wreck pages, photographs, coordinates, diving notes, vessel histories, and contributions from local divers.

Ancient Web: Zoo Race Is a Free Noah's Ark Racing Game With Piranhas, Rockets, and Crow Poop

The Zoo Race is a free PC racing game by Randall Alaimo that mixes Noah's Ark, animal racers, Christian themes, original music, rockets, cannons, piranhas, mazes, and an alarming amount of personality.

Ancient Web: Cris Thomas Catalogued the Strange Promotional Toys Saturn Dealers Gave Away

Cris Thomas built a small but unusually useful archive of Saturn promotional toys, die-cast cars, paper models, holograms, lightships, dealer giveaways, and other odd corporate merchandise.

Ancient Web: WebWinds Preserved Late-1990s Ovid Chat Rooms

WebWinds preserves late-1990s chat transcripts, reading notes, translations, and mythology resources built around Ovid's Metamorphoses and the now-defunct Ancient Sites community.

Ancient Web: Mac Hut Is Mirroring the Classic Mac Web Before It Vanishes

Mac Hut is an active preservation project for legacy Apple Macintosh software, manuals, drivers, mirrors, and old websites, keeping material from the classic Mac ecosystem reachable on ordinary Web and FTP infrastructure.

Ancient Web: Land of Kain Built a Shadowrun Rulebook on the Web

Land of Kain's Shadowrun section is a sprawling personal rules reference that compresses, rewrites, and documents decades of tabletop mechanics in plain HTML.

Ancient Web: Mister Ralls Left a GeoCities Self-Portrait Behind

A preserved GeoCities page by Mike Ralls mixes autobiography, alternate history, travel memories, graduate-school plans, Usenet traces, and broken-image archaeology.

Ancient Web: The Simple Sailor Kept Ocean Voyaging Small

Roger Taylor's long-running sailing site documents minimalist ocean voyaging aboard the tiny junk-rigged Mingming boats, including Arctic passages far beyond the usual cruising map.

Ancient Web: DAN-BALL Kept Browser Games Alive for Twenty Years

DAN-BALL started in April 2006 and still maintains a strange, durable catalog of original browser games, simulations, physics toys, comments, counters, and mobile ports.

Ancient Web: Michael Scharrer Kept the POV-Ray Source Code With the Art

Michael Scharrer's POV-Ray collection preserves procedural ray-traced artwork together with reusable source code, construction notes, and the geometry behind the images.

Ancient Web: Mercenary's Helper Thought the Other Star Fox 64 Sites Were Crap

Mercenary's Helper launched in 1997 as an unapologetically opinionated Star Fox 64 guide and still preserves FAQs, fan fiction, strategy, sounds, and a frozen late-1990s update log.

Ancient Web: TouringCarRacing.net Became a Citation Source for Racing History

Frank de Jong's TouringCarRacing.net assembled decades of touring-car results, drivers, cars, lap times, photographs, and championship history into a specialist reference still cited long after its creator's death.

Ancient Web: The Fred Project Built a Ventriloquist Dummy in Public

Al Stevens's Fred Project documented how to build a professional ventriloquist figure from casting kits, materials, mechanisms, and patient handwork—and people still cite it as a practical reference.

Ancient Web: Georg Potthast Kept DOS Machines on the Network

Georg Potthast's SIOUX pages preserve packet drivers, NIC detection tools, and practical networking support for DOS-era machines that modern hardware long ago forgot.

Ancient Web: Peter Yost Put Music, Organs, Photography, and Calligraphy Under One Roof

Peter Yost's personal site keeps sacred and secular music, photography, pipe-organ building, calligraphy, and creative work together instead of splitting a person into platform-shaped profiles.