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The Somnolescent Archives preserves old sites, abandoned experiments, software-era media, and strange file hoards with the explicit goal of keeping small-web history browseable.
The Glass Wings mirror of Mark Stanley's Freefall preserves a late-1990s science-fiction webcomic and the older Web habit of keeping popular independent works alive through mirrors.
Brookline Connection has documented one Pittsburgh neighborhood since 1998 with maps, photographs, transit history, municipal records, schools, churches, and local memory.
The recreated 62nd Regiment of Foot built a site around Revolutionary War research, biographies, uniforms, courts-martial, primary sources, and living-history interpretation.
The Typing Injury FAQ gathered practical information about repetitive strain injuries, keyboards, pointing devices, speech recognition, furniture, software, and ergonomics in one durable reference site.
9p.io preserves the Plan 9 operating system's documentation, source, historical downloads, papers, manual pages, community resources, and continuity after the old Bell Labs server disappeared.
RailroadMichigan is a hobby-built photographic archive covering current and historical railroads across Michigan and the Great Lakes region, including rosters, short lines, interurbans, equipment, and contributed images.
Andrew Turnbull's Field Guide to American Traffic Signs traces regulatory, warning, and guide-sign designs through decades of MUTCD history, including obsolete signs and transitional designs that have mostly disappeared from the road.
Robert M. Free's Grafman's VR World preserves VRML experiments from 1995 through 1997, including animated textures, generated snowmen, avatars, geodesic-dome parts, Netscape Live3D extensions, and early VRML 2.0 work.
David Richardson's Neocomputer project dissected the Atari 2600 version of E.T., explained its notorious collision and difficulty problems, and produced a patched ROM that showed what a few targeted fixes could change.
Russell Hoffman's Internet Glossary of Nuclear Terminology is a sprawling 2002 web primer on reactors, radiation, nuclear weapons, waste, downwinders, the fuel cycle, and the politics surrounding them.
Greg Egan's personal site has been online since 1997, combining fiction, bibliographies, science notes, illustrations, applets, free stories, and author-controlled context in one durable home page.
Joe Wolfe's University of New South Wales sailing page uses Newton's laws, vectors, apparent wind, keel forces, and eighteen-foot skiffs to explain how sailboats move upwind and sometimes faster than the wind.
Historian.net's History of Writing page is an old-school illustrated tour from counting tokens and cuneiform through Egyptian hieroglyphs and the development of alphabetic writing, preserved inside a website whose front door still expects Shockwave.
The Video Game Music Archive has been online since 1996, and its Nintendo 64 section alone preserves 1,900 fan-sequenced MIDI files with song titles, file sizes, sequencer credits, and comments.
The Rare Breeds Conservation Society of New Zealand has maintained a web resource since 2002 covering endangered and minority livestock, registries, rescue projects, breeders, a gene bank, and locally adapted heritage breeds.
Robin Hanson's 1998 Great Filter essay connected the Fermi paradox to humanity's future risk, arguing that the silence of the universe implies at least one extremely difficult step between dead matter and a civilization that spreads through space.
Deuce of Clubs documented the Mojave Phone Booth through calls, desert trips, reader mail, press links, maps, and visit reports, helping turn one remote payphone into a late-1990s Internet legend.
Daniel Myers's MedievalCookery.com collects transcribed recipes, menus, cookbook statistics, Middle English cooking terms, source books, spices, fruit varieties, and practical reconstructions built from more than two decades of research.
Greg Leedberg's Seinfeld Online grew out of his mid-1990s personal-web period, survived moves from AOL to SimpleNet and then Leedberg.com, and remains online because people still visit an old-fashioned fan site.