Trash Fiction built a hand-made reference site around lurid, forgotten, oddball and disposable-looking paperbacks—the sort of books whose cover art and strange premises often outlived their reputation.
Kerzap's Hunt for Red October site, built in the late 1990s and last updated in 2001, organized Tom Clancy's novel and film into characters, language, merchandise, series history, and technical discussion.
Rambles.NET launched in 1999 and still publishes reviews, interviews and essays across folk music, books, folklore, history, comics and other cultural niches, with more than 18,000 pieces online.
RinkWorks' Book-A-Minute compresses novels and children's books into absurdly tiny parodies, preserving a late-1990s web humor format that still works because the joke is ruthless compression.