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Dead Internet Theory: How AOL Hometown gave millions of subscribers a public page inside the company's walled-garden community, how residents found each other through screen names, and what the 2008 shutdown did to their on-service identities.
AwayMessages.com preserves categorized AIM-era status messages, buddy-icon culture, instant-messenger setup guides, screen-name substitution tricks, and the peculiar social ritual of writing a tiny public note before leaving the computer.
Electronixandmore began in late 1999 as a small AOL-hosted antique-radio page and grew into a hand-built online museum of radios, televisions, computers, projects, and disappearing electronics technology.
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.