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Curtis Saxton’s Star Wars Technical Commentaries began in 1995 and applied scientific reasoning to spacecraft, planets, biology, measurements and other technical details of the Star Wars universe.
Bevis King's Xena: Warrior Princess fan archive, created in February 1998 and updated through 2001, preserves episode guides, production codes, character indexes, interviews, filming locations, VHS and DVD references, and the collaborative fan-web culture around the series.
The Eggman Empire is a long-running Dr. Robotnik / Eggman fan project that preserves official profiles, fan art, downloads, character material, community history, and the old idea that one villain can justify an entire hand-built corner of the web.
The LOTR Fanclub Scrapbook preserved poems, fan fiction, essays, recipes, jokes, journals, and other work created around Decipher's defunct Official Lord of the Rings Fan Club and its online community.
Michael Wong's Star Wars vs. Star Trek site, online since 1998, treats fictional military hardware like an engineering problem—complete with canon rules, evidence standards, calculators, order-of-magnitude estimates, and a glorious Imperial recruiting pitch.
The Matrix 101 organized FAQs, timelines, character details, interpretations, books, games, Animatrix episodes, and fan theories into a dedicated reference site for a franchise designed to make viewers ask what they just watched.
Whoosh! went online in 1996 as the journal of the International Association of Xena Studies, combining episode guides, essays, interviews, fan scholarship, convention reports, and a huge record of early online fandom.
A surviving WWWF Grudge Match page preserves the early Web formula of absurd pop-culture combat, human-written commentary, visitor voting, and pages of audience responses before social media standardized all of it.
XVR27's Weird Al Yankovic homepage survives as a sprawling fan-built reference full of lyrics, subject indexes, transcripts, odd recordings, and links that later reference works still cite.
The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5 turned Usenet discussion, episode analysis, schedules, FAQs, and creator commentary into one of the early Web's most respected fan-reference sites.
Dead Internet Theory: Fandom communities have repeatedly migrated between platforms, and restricted servers can preserve active social life while making conversation, archives, and participation less visible to outsiders.
The surviving Chicon 2000 website preserves the logistics, guests, program culture, rules, songs, and Web design of the 58th World Science Fiction Convention.
Keno.org preserves a long-running Rolling Stones fan community, old CGI message-board infrastructure, retired web-design pages, and a surprisingly complete record of how independent fan sites actually operated.
Nindestruct preserves its own 1998 Nine Inch Nails fan site and other pieces of the late-1990s 'NINternet,' including fan archives, old news pages, discographies, scans, Flash material, and link culture.
Zzickle preserves painstaking episode transcripts for shows including Queen of Swords and Monarch of the Glen, created partly because subtitles and Scottish dialogue were difficult to follow.
Robotech Research became a dense fan-built reference for mecha specifications, RPG material, scenarios, and technical interpretations that circulated far beyond its original pages.
The Internet Gadget Archive opened in 1995 as a fan-run collection devoted to Gadget Hackwrench, preserving early web fandom, fan art, and fan fiction long before modern social platforms existed.
C'mon Get Happy is a long-running Partridge Family fan archive with episode guides, recording-session research, interviews, memorabilia, and material that later became a reference source for other publications.
The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe turned obscure comic characters into a massive fan-built reference system years before today's fandom wikis dominated search results.
Nancy E. Shaffer's All Things Philosophical turned Buffy and Angel fandom into a serious, funny, deeply indexed discussion of ethics, metaphysics, religion, politics, and mythology years before fandom wikis became normal.