Ancient Web: BamSoftware Turned 10 MB Into 281 TB Without Recursion
David Fifield's 'A better zip bomb' page explains a 2019 compression trick that makes a ZIP file explode from 10 MB to 281 TB without relying on nested archives.
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Ancient Web: Tony Jiang Wrote a Complete Super Smash Bros. N64 Guide
Tony Jiang's hand-built Super Smash Bros. guide covers every N64 character, stage, item and multiplayer strategy in a mostly text-based fan site he began after buying the game in 2003.
Ancient Web: 2D53 Preserved North Wales Railways in Photos and Paperwork
Dave Plimmer's 2D53 documents North Wales main-line railways with photographs from 1975-1983, timetables, signalling material, headcodes and extracts from official railway documents.
Ancient Web: WhipNet Archived Real Men of Genius Before Streaming Platforms
WhipNet built a fan archive around Bud Light's Real American Heroes and Real Men of Genius radio ads, preserving MP3s, lyrics and a 2003 newspaper article in gloriously period HTML.
Ancient Web: Does Anyone Remember Websites? Asked the Right Question in 2017
A 2017 TTTThis essay argued that search engines had become excellent at answering questions while making it harder to stumble into personal websites you never knew to search for.
Ancient Web: A Parasol Mushroom Page Became a Lesson in Search-Engine Context
Mushroom-Collecting.com's parasol page documented both edible parasol mushrooms and dangerous lookalikes, then became an accidental example of how image search can strip warnings away from the image it indexes.
Ancient Web: Nokiamies Keeps the Nokia 3100 in a Hand-Built Phone Collection
Nokiamies maintains an old-browser-friendly personal site about vintage phones and hardware, including a dedicated page for Nokia's glow-in-the-dark 2003 Nokia 3100.
Ancient Web: Paul Hardy Turned a Career in Cartography Into a Personal Reference Archive
Paul Hardy's personal site gathers decades of cartography papers, mapping work, traditional-music tunebooks and other specialist material that would otherwise be scattered across institutions and formats.
Ancient Web: Early Web Links Is Building a Card Catalog for the Personal Web
Early Web Links is a modern human-curated directory built to recover the wandering, category-browsing experience of the pre-platform web, with more than 12,000 sites cataloged.
Ancient Web: Pieter Built a Real Anonymous FTP Server in 2026
Pieter.com runs a real anonymous FTP server as a non-commercial preservation project, reviving the direct file-browsing experience modern browsers abandoned years ago.
Ancient Web: NES City Preserved the 2003 NES Fan Scene
NES City is a surviving early-2000s Nintendo fan site whose update archive still preserves AIM icons, desktop wallpapers, IRC rooms, RSS experiments, fan shrines, and the small-site culture around the NES revival.
Ancient Web: Zat Solo's Deep Space Outpost Kept Frontier Alive
Zat Solo's Deep Space Outpost was an early fan resource for Elite, Frontier: Elite II, and Frontier: First Encounters, repeatedly cited by players before modern game wikis and community hubs existed.
Ancient Web: rcgldr Is What a Personal Homepage Used to Be
rcgldr.net is Jeff Reid's plain personal archive of radio-control gliders, cars, gymnastics, racing-game mods, savefiles, source code, and whatever else he decided belonged on his corner of the web.
Ancient Web: Splitting Images Is a Static-HTML Celebrity Double Agency
Splitting Images preserves a very old-school British celebrity-lookalike agency as hundreds of simple individual pages for impersonators, famous doubles, and professional event performers.
Ancient Web: Philip Kraus Kept a Career in Operetta Online
Philip Kraus's personal site preserves a long career in opera, operetta, Gilbert and Sullivan, directing, translating, and reviving neglected stage works through plain static biography pages.
Ancient Web: Guns & Sand Was a Joke Site That Looked Just Real Enough
Guns & Sand turned one of Alan Wagner's absurd fake organizations into a functioning website, complete with slogans, membership language, gun imagery, sand enthusiasm, and years of confused internet reactions.
Ancient Web: AJFroggie Mapped the Interstate System One Road at a Time
AJFroggie became a long-running personal highway-history resource covering Interstate planning, route histories, maps, proposals, and transportation details later cited by other road-history references.
Ancient Web: Voyagerliveaction Turned Star Trek Fanfiction Into a Writers' Room
Voyagerliveaction preserved a collaborative Star Trek role-playing and fanfiction project begun in 2000, with multiple writers producing episode-style stories across Trek series long before modern fanfic platforms standardized the experience.
Ancient Web: Opsopaus Built a Hypertext Pythagorean Theology
John Opsopaus's online Pythagorean Theology project turns a dense personal study of ancient philosophy, ritual, symbolism, and later esoteric interpretation into a deeply linked old-style web text.
Ancient Web: Crashland Preserved Naughty Dog's Old Crash Bandicoot Material
Crashland preserves copies of old official Crash Bandicoot material, including production art and character-development pages from the Naughty Dog era that later disappeared from their original corporate home.