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Ancient Web: Richard Stallman Still Runs His Personal Site Like a Personal Site

Richard Stallman's personal website has been separate from GNU for decades, remains largely hand-built, and still treats the Web as a place for files, essays, keys, archives and direct publication rather than a social-media feed.

Ancient Web: Carolana Built an Almost-Everything History of South Carolina

J.D. Lewis's Carolana project has spent more than two decades organizing South Carolina history into timelines, maps, counties, towns, government records, transportation, wars and colonial-era reference pages.

Ancient Web: BlackbeardThePirate.com Caught the Queen Anne's Revenge Recovery in Progress

A 1997-era North Carolina website preserved the period when the Beaufort Inlet wreck believed to be Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge was still being investigated, photographed and recovered artifact by artifact.

Ancient Web: Thailand Fever Built a Bilingual Relationship Guide on the Web

ThailandFever.com preserves the Web presence around a 2000s Thai-English relationship guide, including bilingual previews, author backgrounds, reviews, translations and a surviving forum from 2005.

Ancient Web: Reeder's Egypt Page Went Deep on the Weird Corners of Egyptology

Greg Reeder's Egyptology site focuses on unusually specific subjects including the tomb of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep, the tekenu, the muu dancers, ancient Egyptian art and archaeological reference material.

Ancient Web: Italy's National UFO Center Preserved Its 1997 Web Archive

The Centro Ufologico Nazionale's web presence traces itself to 1997 and still preserves old pages, statistics, newsletters, event material and decades of Italian UFO research culture even as the organization moves to a newer domain.

Ancient Web: Annie's Home Page Became a Memorial to Its Creator

Annie's Home Page began as one Christian encouragement page in 1997, grew into a sprawling devotional and holiday site, and after Annie's death in 2014 remained online as a memorial to what she built.

Ancient Web: Earth Witchery Built a Field Guide to Faery Lore

Earth Witchery's Faery Lore page organizes folklore and modern spiritual material into faery types, elemental associations, garden plants, rituals and references in a classic old-Web field-guide format.

Ancient Web: Lundsten's Basement Preserved Danish Railway Signaling

Carsten Lundsten's railway pages preserve a detailed late-1990s and early-2000s snapshot of Danish signals, speed boards, block systems, turnouts and station signaling as ERTMS changes the infrastructure they documented.

Ancient Web: Video Games 101 Froze Console Specs in the Era That Cared About Bits

Video Games 101 preserves quick hardware specs, short console histories and period commentary for systems from the NES through the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, plus handhelds and Tomb Raider material.

Ancient Web: EarthbagBuilding.com Documented Houses Made From Bags of Dirt

EarthbagBuilding.com turned sandbags, soil, barbed wire and decades of experimental construction into a practical independent reference on earthbag and superadobe building.

Ancient Web: Mexican Masks Cataloged Dance Masks, Patina and Fakes

MexicanMasks.us preserves a collector's noncommercial archive of dance masks, regional traditions, materials, wear patterns, authenticity clues and collecting stories from Mexico and Guatemala.

Ancient Web: Racinehistory.com Built a Family-Run Wisconsin History Archive

Racinehistory.com has preserved local timelines, manufacturing history, community stories and Gerald Karwowski's decades of collecting around Racine County, Wisconsin.

Ancient Web: Mark Headrick Kept General MIDI Playing After Netscape Died

Mark Headrick's General MIDI page preserves hundreds of collected MIDI files alongside a running history of browser plug-ins, Windows MIDI plumbing, soundfonts and workarounds from the Netscape era onward.

Ancient Web: PlayTool Mapped the PC Power Connectors That Could Melt Your Hardware

PlayTool's 2008 power-supply reference maps AT, ATX, SATA, EPS12V and PCI Express connectors with pinouts, part numbers, current limits and the historical reasons PC power wiring kept changing.

Ancient Web: MissouriPlants.com Built a Field Guide for Wild Plants

MissouriPlants.com organizes the state's wild vascular flora by flower color, leaf arrangement, family and scientific name, with photographs, conservation values and identification notes aimed at non-specialists.

Ancient Web: NakedEyePlanets.com Made Planet Spotting a Hand-Built Reference

Martin J. Powell's NakedEyePlanets.com combines current visibility tables, finder charts, planetary appearance, observing history and naked-eye astronomy into a long-running hand-built reference.

Ancient Web: Under the Red Star Cataloged Soviet Uniform Caps Down to the Fakes

Under the Red Star is a specialist collector's guide to Soviet military and civilian visor caps from 1946–1991, with hundreds of examples, agency classifications, markings, authenticity clues and reproduction warnings.

Ancient Web: Lighthouse Getaway Has Been on the Internet Since 1993

William A. Britten's Lighthouse Getaway has been online since 1993, preserving regional lighthouse photography, Fresnel lens explanations and a pre-blog tour of coastal light stations.

Ancient Web: A 1911 Steam Turbine Lecture Still Explains Cavitation in Plain HTML

The Hopkin Thomas Project preserves Sir Charles Parsons' 1911 Rede Lecture on steam turbines, including cavitation, marine propulsion, geared turbines and the engineering economics behind the technology.