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Ancient Web: UW-Madison's Virtual Foliage Preserves a University Botany Image Library

UW-Madison's Virtual Foliage site preserves classroom botany collections assembled from faculty, student and donated slide archives, including Wisconsin trees, fungi and plant diversity material.

Ancient Web: McMurdoStation.com Kept a Running Construction Log for Antarctica's Biggest Base

Bill Spindler's McMurdoStation.com combines personal Antarctic photographs, station history, master-plan documents and years of construction updates for the U.S. Antarctic Program's McMurdo Station.

Ancient Web: Naval-History.Net Transcribed 350,000 Pages of Royal Navy Log Books

Gordon Smith's Naval-History.Net grew from a 1998 personal research site into a vast archive of naval casualties, memoirs, contemporary accounts and hundreds of thousands of transcribed ship-log pages.

Ancient Web: Big Ear Put the Complete Cosmic Search SETI Magazine Back Online

Big Ear's website preserves all 13 issues of Cosmic Search, the pioneering 1979-1982 SETI magazine, including a 1981 Isaac Asimov essay on possible non-Earth-like biochemistry.

Ancient Web: SmallDollars.com Built a Reference Library Around America's Modern Dollar Coins

SmallDollars.com documents Susan B. Anthony, Sacagawea, Native American and Presidential dollar coins with production dates, legislation, design history, varieties and collector research.

Ancient Web: The British Empire Site Grew From a 1997 Teaching Project to 20,000 Pages

Stephen Luscombe began The British Empire website in 1997 to combine ICT and history teaching; it grew into a huge independent archive of colonies, people, conflicts, photographs and contributed accounts.

Ancient Web: Mystery Manor Still Keeps Old Adventure Games Running

Mystery Manor has been serving adventure-game players since 2002 with walkthroughs, save files, patches, screenshots, manuals, utilities, interviews and a forum that still uses its haunted-house structure.

Ancient Web: A Chebucto Community Site Connected Yang Style Tai Chi to Taoist Philosophy

Christopher Majka's Yang Style Tai Chi site on the Chebucto Community Net preserves a Halifax teaching lineage alongside a large plain-HTML guide to Taoist philosophy, history and symbolism.

Ancient Web: Radiocraft Documented How to Bring 405-Line British Television Back to Life

Stephen Ostler's Radiocraft site preserves detailed restoration work on pre-1962 British radios and televisions, including 1930s sets, Bush TV22s, 405-line television and the 1990s Retrovisor.

Ancient Web: RetroArchive Preserved the Working Files of BBS-Era Computing

RetroArchive preserves old software collections, manuals and CD-ROM file libraries, including hundreds of RemoteAccess BBS utilities with original filenames, dates and descriptions from the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Ancient Web: Rodent's Vengeance Kept Rodent's Revenge Alive in Java

Rodent's Vengeance recreated Microsoft's 1991 Rodent's Revenge puzzle game in Java, adding modern controls, save support and cross-platform compatibility decades after the original stopped changing.

Ancient Web: Nick's Model Tanks Preserved a Lifetime of Scale Modeling

Nick Turner's Model Tanks site documents military-model builds stretching from the 1960s to the present, including restorations, scale debates, old Airfix kits and hundreds of oversized reference photographs.

Ancient Web: Ju388.de Built a Digital Museum Around One Rare Junkers Aircraft

Ju388.de documents the rare Junkers Ju 388 high-altitude aircraft with technical data, cockpit views, surviving airframe history, production records and wartime source documents.

Ancient Web: V8SHO.com Turned a Ford Engine Failure Into an Owner-Built Database

V8SHO.com preserves owner reports, Ford technical bulletins, repair discussions and hundreds of camshaft-failure cases for the 1996-1999 Ford Taurus SHO V8.

Ancient Web: NOHAB.hu Documented the Hungarian Career of a Swedish Diesel Icon

NOHAB.hu preserves photographs, locomotive histories and operating details for the Hungarian M61 diesel fleet and related NOHAB-GM locomotives across Europe.

Ancient Web: Sloperama Built a Mah-Jongg Reference Library Out of FAQs

Tom Sloper's Mah-Jongg FAQs grew from late-1990s newsgroup material into a sprawling reference covering rules, terminology, antique sets, history, strategy, tournaments and decades of reader questions.

Ancient Web: Antique Bottles Turned Glass Trash Into a Reference Library

AntiqueBottles.com preserves collector knowledge about embossed whiskey bottles, makers, regional businesses, bottle forms and the tiny clues used to identify old glass containers.

Ancient Web: The Salem Witch Trials Archive Put the Primary Sources Online

The University of Virginia's Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive gathers court records, letters, sermons, diaries, maps and historical works into a durable research site built around primary sources.

Ancient Web: Runo's Cloth-Doll Site Kept Handmade Pattern Culture on the Open Web

Runo's NunoDoll pages preserve galleries, doll-making instructions and patterns for handcrafted cloth dolls, stuffed animals, kimono figures, anime characters and life-size creations.

Ancient Web: Molossia Built a Navy in the Desert and Documented Every Voyage

The Republic of Molossia's Navy pages turn a micronation joke into a long-running archive of tiny vessels, lake expeditions, diving-bell missions and deliberately over-serious naval bureaucracy.