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Jason Scott started TEXTFILES.COM in 1998 to preserve BBS-era text files he had collected in his youth. The project grew into a huge archive of computer culture built around a simple idea: copies survive.
Mike Butkus has kept a huge ad-free library of film-camera manuals online since the 1990s, preserving instructions for thousands of cameras, flashes, meters, lenses, and accessories.
The Computer Gaming World Museum preserves the complete 1981–2006 run of Computer Gaming World, including searchable scans of the magazine that documented the birth and growth of PC gaming.
Fourmilab reconstructed the public-domain 1977 third edition of The Effects of Nuclear Weapons into a chapter-by-chapter web index covering blast, thermal radiation, fallout, EMP, structural damage, radio effects, and biological consequences.
HuecoTanks.com is an independent climber-run archive preserving route culture, event history, access disputes, interviews, photographs, and old climbing video from one of America's famous bouldering areas.
Matthew Furman's personal web network keeps the hand-built habits of the older Internet alive through guestbooks, counters, separate mobile pages and specialist archives including a museum devoted to disappearing payphones.
Annie's Home Page began as one Christian encouragement page in 1997, grew into a sprawling devotional and holiday site, and after Annie's death in 2014 remained online as a memorial to what she built.
Comic Book Plus preserves tens of thousands of public-domain comic books, strips, pulp material, fanzines and old-time radio in a huge volunteer-built archive.
Poets' Corner is a volunteer-built poetry library that began in 1994 and grew into thousands of public-domain works maintained by hand across decades of web change.