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The Tesla Memorial Society of New York assembled a sprawling old-web archive around Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse, Niagara Falls, the 1893 Columbian Exposition and the surviving Adams Power Station.
ARPA.NET preserved a tiny Unix-administration milestone page celebrating a Sun SPARC IPX that ran continuously for 1,000 days before a power outage finally ended the experiment.
Patrick Gillespie's Text to ASCII Art Generator began in 2007 as a JavaScript side project inspired by late-1990s AOL Macro Shop art and grew into a long-lived FIGlet and ANSI-font preservation tool.
Thomas Tilley's project archive turns inexpensive Thai PVC water pipe into game controllers, sports equipment, furniture, projector mounts and increasingly elaborate experiments in physical computing.
Eric Stuve's OKRoads preserves highway guides, road-trip photography and hand-built maps from the era when documenting an interchange meant driving there with a camera.
DupontCastle.com follows a decades-long attempt to build a private castle, while also cataloging hundreds of castle-like structures across the United States.
Glen Kuban's Paleo.cc collects decades of dinosaur-track research, fossil casts, Paluxy River documentation and rebuttals to alleged human-and-dinosaur footprint claims.
MayDayMystery.org grew from a University of Arizona student's obsession into an archive of cryptic paid newspaper advertisements that have appeared in the Arizona Daily Wildcat since 1981.
Rambles.NET launched in 1999 and still publishes reviews, interviews and essays across folk music, books, folklore, history, comics and other cultural niches, with more than 18,000 pieces online.
Robyn Rhudy's Fishpondinfo began in 1997 and grew into more than 900 hand-coded pages documenting ponds, frogs, fish, salamanders, insects, turtles and decades of backyard observations.
Total Rewind preserves vintage video recorders and forgotten tape formats as a navigable virtual museum, including oddities such as Akai's short-lived 1977 VK cassette system.
George Robinson and David Waller built a searchable history of Tyne shipbuilders and vessels using simple HTML, yard-number records, year indexes and source-heavy ship histories.
Anders Baadsgaard Straarup built AirmenDK into a bilingual research archive of Allied aircraft and airmen lost over Denmark and Danish waters from 1939 to 1945.
John van Wyhe's History of Phrenology on the Web preserves nineteenth-century texts, images, people and terminology from a once-influential but discredited theory of the mind.
Disco-Disco.com's Studio 54 page mixes club history, DJ details, memorabilia hunting and interviews with people who actually worked inside the legendary New York disco.
Ways of Enlichenment combines lichen philosophy, identification tools and a photogallery containing 11,593 vetted images representing 2,183 species across western North America.
SpyNumbers.com organized shortwave numbers stations by ENIGMA-style identifiers, nicknames and recordings, preserving a strange corner of radio intelligence culture.
Bernard Suzanne's Plato and His Dialogues has been online since 1996, combining chronology, maps, indexes, translations and a personal theory about how Plato's works fit together.
Pirate Surgeon digs through period medical sources and reenactment evidence to reconstruct the bottles, jars, boxes and other containers that belonged in an early-eighteenth-century medicine chest.
Antenna-Theory.com turns topics such as VSWR, baluns, radiation patterns, Smith charts and Maxwell's equations into a large practical tutorial written by an experienced antenna engineer.