Ancient Web: Kozmic Dreams, Art Cars and a Handmade Personal Web
Kozmic Dreams is a surviving personal art site built around paintings, photography, art cars, pets and collections, including two extensively documented hand-painted cars.
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Ancient Web: Andrew Clem Built a Baseball Stadium Atlas by Hand
Andrew Clem's long-running personal site combines hand-built baseball stadium diagrams, birding records, travel, politics and years of personal archives under one independent domain.
Ancient Web: Historical Boys' Clothing Became a 30,000-Page Social History Archive
Historical Boys' Clothing began in the 1990s as a fashion-history project and grew into a huge independent archive of clothing, childhood, countries, photographs and social history.
Ancient Web: TheOldNet Put the Archived Web Back on Vintage Computers
TheOldNet was built to make archived websites usable on actual vintage computers, combining a Wayback proxy, old-browser compatibility work, BBS access and Wi-Fi modem projects.
Ancient Web: Brave New World as a Chapter-Indexed HTML Book
A long-lived Huxley page on Hedweb presents Brave New World as simple linked HTML chapters, surrounded by related Huxley material instead of a modern reading application.
Ancient Web: A Garfield Postcard Collection Frozen in Simple HTML
A tiny page on garfield.dk preserves a grid of Garfield postcards with almost no interface around it, a good example of the collector pages that once filled the personal Web.
Ancient Web: Futureware 2001 and the Open-Source Workshop From Vienna
Futureware 2001 preserves an Austrian software collective's late-1990s and early-2000s projects, including translation tools, Linux software, SourceForge migration and distributed rendering experiments.
Ancient Web: The Website Obesity Crisis Was Warning Us in 2015
Maciej Ceglowski's 2015 Website Obesity Crisis talk attacked page bloat with measurements, jokes and an argument that text pages should not outweigh Russian novels.
Ancient Web: One Man's Love Letter to a 1984-1988 Honda Civic 1500S
A small page on skierpage.com preserves one owner's unusually heartfelt record of his third-generation Honda Civic 1500S, including its options, condition, sale and final photo session.
Ancient Web: DJ Riddler's Rave Archive Preserves the Early 1990s From the Ground
DJ Riddler's oldskool rave site preserves photographs, flyers, newspaper clippings, vinyl, mixtapes, pirate-radio recordings and firsthand memories from the British rave scene.
Ancient Web: A Family Trip Through Ontario's Bruce Peninsula, Preserved as a Plain HTML Travel Page
A University of Waterloo-hosted travel page records a family trip through Ontario's Bruce Peninsula with short notes on beaches, harbors and kid-friendly stops.
Ancient Web: Abandoned But Not Forgotten Cataloged Empty America State by State
Abandoned But Not Forgotten is a long-running, user-submitted photo archive of abandoned buildings and places across the United States.
Ancient Web: Mike Willegal Rebuilt the Apple I and Revision-0 Apple II From the Board Up
Mike Willegal's long-running site documents Apple I and early Apple II recreation projects with schematics, assembly guides, board artwork and correspondence with Steve Wozniak.
Ancient Web: The X-Files Episode Guide Still Looks Like a Fan Built It Because One Did
This independent X-Files episode guide preserves summaries, quotes and fan commentary across the show's original run and later revival seasons.
Ancient Web: The NeXT Computer Historical Site Preserves the Black Cube Before It Became a Legend
Simson Garfinkel's NeXT Computer Historical Site preserves brochures, specifications, magazine material, screenshots and notes from the 1988 NeXT unveiling.
Ancient Web: The Great War Primary Documents Archive Has Been Serving World War I Sources Since 1995
The Great War Primary Documents Archive launched in 1995 and still organizes treaties, memoirs, images, naval material and other World War I sources in a classic Web structure.
Ancient Web: The Kitchen Project Turned Sauerkraut Into a Tiny Food-History Archive
The Kitchen Project's sauerkraut page mixes fermentation instructions, family food history and older Web publishing into a surprisingly deep document about preserved cabbage.
Ancient Web: Kenji Miyazawa's Ihatov Still Lives in a Hand-Built Literary Website
Kenji World preserves English-language material about Japanese writer Kenji Miyazawa, including his imagined land of Ihatov, essays, translations and downloadable works.
Ancient Web: A 12-Year-Old's 1999 Page on Osiris and Isis Is Still Online
Guardian's Egypt still hosts a 1999 mythology essay by 12-year-old Whitney Bayuk, complete with bibliography, original artwork and unmistakable late-1990s educational Web character.
Ancient Web: Michaelsoft Binbows Was a Real Used-PC Shop and the Joke Was Exactly What You Think
A surviving Japanese personal page documents Michaelsoft Binbows, a used-computer shop whose name and reversed Windows-style logo became an Internet curiosity decades later.