Ancient Web: The Old Calculator Museum
The Old Calculator Web Museum has been online since 1997, documenting early electronic calculators with hand-written HTML, working machines, manuals, advertisements, and memories from the people who built them.
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Ancient Web: Multiplayer SimCity on X11
Don Hopkins' surviving SimCity pages preserve the strange and excellent history of a networked Unix version of SimCity, complete with old screenshots, transcripts, documentation, and a demo mode that melted your city every five minutes.
Ancient Web: The Intel 4004 Site Argues the History From the Inside
Intel4004.com preserves Federico Faggin's account of the first commercial microprocessor, including the silicon-gate technology, project timeline, patents, and long-running argument over who actually led the design.
Ancient Web: Gaby.de Kept CP/M and ZNODE51 Alive on the Web
Gaby.de preserves a German CP/M and computer-history archive with software, manuals, Digital Research material, Z80 resources, the ZNODE51 BBS collection, Windows 3.1x downloads, and a virtual computer museum.
Ancient Web: Rechenmaschinen-Illustrated Put the History of Calculating Machines Back Online
Rechenmaschinen-Illustrated turns Ernst Martin's classic history of calculating machines into an illustrated online reference, adding photographs, articles, manufacturer data, and collector research around mechanical calculators.
Ancient Web: BackRub Still Shows Google Before Google
Stanford's surviving BackRub page preserves the search project that became Google, including 1996 crawl statistics, hardware notes, programming languages, and Larry Page's description of a web crawler built around links.
Ancient Web: Computer Stupidities Preserved the Help Desk Horror Story
RinkWorks' Computer Stupidities collected decades of tech-support mishaps, user mistakes, urban legends, and painfully believable stories from the era when ordinary people were still learning what computers expected from them.
Ancient Web: Paper CD Case Still Generates Printable Disc Sleeves
PaperCDCase.com has been generating printable fold-up CD sleeves since 2001, complete with track listings, addresses, graphics, disc lookup, and technical notes from the era of FreeBSD 4, PHP, Perl CGI, FreeDB, and Acrobat browser plugins.
Ancient Web: DigiCamHistory Stops in 1998 on Purpose
DigiCamHistory.com has been documenting the path from film cameras to early digital photography since 2001, with a deliberate focus on the pre-1999 hardware that mainstream camera sites usually skipped once digital photography exploded.
Ancient Web: Apple2.org Keeps the Apple II in Pictures
Tony Diaz's Apple2.org has documented Apple II hardware since the 1990s with hundreds of photographs, technical references, expansion cards, motherboards, accelerators, storage devices, and obscure accessories.
Ancient Web: The Data Egg Tried to Replace the Tiny Keyboard With Seven Buttons
Gary Friedman's Data Egg grew from a 1990 JPL prototype built around a plastic Easter egg into a one-handed seven-button chording system designed for typing while walking, standing, reclining, or even working in space.
Ancient Web: Ian Bell's Homepage Kept Elite Close to Its Source Code
Ian Bell's long-running personal site became an unofficial primary-source archive for Elite, preserving code, historical material, technical notes, and the perspective of one of the game's original creators.
Ancient Web: SGI's Developer Forum '95 Put a Conference on Three CDs
Silicon Graphics' Developer Forum '95 CD set captured presentations, labs, keynotes, audio, video, photos, software, and documentation in a Web-like multimedia package built for SGI developers.
Ancient Web: Windows Refund Day Tried to Return the OS Nobody Asked For
Marc Merlin's Windows Refund Day page preserves the February 15, 1999 campaign in which Linux and other open-source users tried to return unwanted bundled Windows licenses and force the refund language in Microsoft's own EULA to mean something.
Ancient Web: Vintage Calculators Became a Source for Real Museums
Nigel Tout's Vintage Calculators Web Museum is an old specialist reference whose model pages and research have been cited by the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, collectors, and other calculator historians.
Ancient Web: 9p.io Kept Plan 9 From Bell Labs Downloadable
9p.io preserves the Plan 9 operating system's documentation, source, historical downloads, papers, manual pages, community resources, and continuity after the old Bell Labs server disappeared.
Ancient Web: Kenneth Kuhn Built a 450-Piece Hewlett-Packard Test Equipment Museum
Kenneth A. Kuhn's privately run HP museum documents more than 450 pieces of vintage Hewlett-Packard test equipment alongside manuals, catalogs, journals, restoration notes, and company history.
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: Paul Rendell Built a Turing Machine Inside Conway's Game of Life
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.
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.