A surviving Kids Web Japan article from the late 1990s captures Pokémon while it was still a fast-growing Japanese Game Boy craze, complete with link cables, stamp rallies and 151 monsters.
Paul Rendell's Game of Life pages document a working Turing machine assembled from gliders, guns, stacks and memory cells inside Conway's cellular automaton.
Dennis Chao's 1999 PSDoom experiment mapped Unix processes to Doom monsters so a system administrator could renice them by shooting and kill them by finishing the job.
EnronCorp.com restores Enron's pre-collapse corporate web presence so researchers can see how the company described itself before bankruptcy became the whole story.
Donald Knuth's Stanford homepage connects books, errata, papers, programs, music and personal oddities without flattening them into a modern academic profile.
A 2014 Mother Bedford page starts with one curled-toe pair of jutti and turns it into a compact lesson on Punjabi leatherwork, construction and museum provenance.
Fredrik Andersson's Zusie project documents a homebuilt computer made largely from salvaged telephone-exchange relays, complete with its own architecture, microcode and DOS toolchain.
A Boston University CS module first developed in 1995 walks from transistor switching to NOT, NAND, NOR, AND, OR and XOR using diagrams, truth tables and a faucet analogy.
Purdue's Cunningham Project keeps machine-readable factor tables, wanted lists and decades of work on numbers of the form b^n ± 1 alive on a plain university web page.
A surviving Stanford Human Biology page from 1999 walks through Bunyaviridae attachment, transcription, translation, replication and release in the compact style of the early academic Web.
Oklahoma State's GeoSET project preserves a 1998 student gallery about the seven border symmetries, complete with class projects and downloadable teaching material.
David Wonn's enormous Nintendo 64 glitch archive preserves player-submitted tricks, crashes, geometry bugs and accidental discoveries from dozens of games.
Yoda's Datapad keeps a hand-built Star Wars character age table that compares birth years and ages across the films while separating newer canon from older Legends sources.
Long before Stack Overflow, Jon Skeet maintained an unofficial Worms page with tactics, cheats, FAQs, utilities, landscapes and screenshots for fellow addicts.
The W3C preserved the closed XHTML2 Working Group home page, leaving behind specifications, drafts, test suites and the record of a Web standards path that HTML5 eventually displaced.
Lena Pankratova's long-running software site still presents jigsaw, solitaire and puzzle programs in the direct download-and-email style of the independent Windows shareware Web.
The Friesian School's History of Philosophy page sprawls across hundreds of linked essays, quotations, timelines and side topics in the dense hand-built style of the independent scholarly Web.