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Ancient Web: The Tex Avery Tribute Kept a Cartoon Fan Site Alive

The Tex Avery Tribute is a surviving independent fan site devoted to the animator behind Droopy, the Wolf, Screwy Squirrel, and a style of cartoon timing that still echoes through animation decades later.

Ancient Web: The Dancing Baby Still Has Its Original Home

The surviving Dancing Baby site preserves the 1996 animation's original credits, GIFs, production notes, copyright history, and the gloriously strange path from 3D software demo to early Internet phenomenon.

Ancient Web: The Warner Bros Cartoon Companion Explained the Jokes Time Erased

E.O. Costello's Warner Bros Cartoon Companion cataloged the celebrity caricatures, radio catchphrases, products, staff jokes, and period references hidden inside classic Warner cartoons.

Ancient Web: Brian Lemay's Cartoon Factory Still Teaches Animation the Old Web Way

Brian Lemay's Animated Cartoon Factory is a surviving specialist teaching site for animation layout, storyboarding, cartooning, character sculpting, and downloadable learning material.

Ancient Web: Mike Jittlov's WizWorld Never Stopped Glowing

Mike Jittlov's official Wizard of Speed and Time site launched in the 1990s and still preserves QuickTime-era fan culture, production material, software, jokes, and aggressively personal Web design.

Ancient Web: Cataroo Became an Animation History Reference

John Cawley's Cataroo pages on Don Bluth, Rocky and Bullwinkle, and animation history kept getting cited long after the site itself began to feel like a relic.

Ancient Web: ANI-MATO Put a Professional Animator's Workshop on the Web

Finnish animator Jan-Eric Nystrom's ANI-MATO site preserves practical animation knowledge including camera stands, film history, Super 16 modification, production techniques, and a working animator's own filmography.

Ancient Web: Kitty's PageWorks Taught the Web to Wiggle in 1996

Kitty Roach's PageWorks is a surviving 1996-era workshop full of animated GIFs, buttons, holiday graphics, web-art tutorials, licensing notes, and advice for building a page when 250 colors still sounded like a specification.

Ancient Web: The Gremlin Turned an Animation Art Store Into a Reference Archive

The Gremlin's long-running animation-art site preserved production cels, backgrounds, model sheets, lobby cards, publicity stills, and other studio ephemera that collectors were discussing online by the early 2000s.

Ancient Web: The NYIT Computer Graphics Lab Preserved the Images Before Pixar

Paul Heckbert's NYIT Computer Graphics Lab page preserves early-1980s computer graphics from The Works, ray tracing, volume rendering, polygonal modeling and the people who helped establish techniques that later became normal.

Ancient Web: The Garfield and Friends Supapage Did the DVD Bonus Features It Never Got

The Garfield and Friends Supapage assembled episode-order research, broadcast differences, old advertising, songs, production trivia and mysteries into the kind of bonus material the DVD sets never included.