Nausicaa.net grew out of a 1991 mailing list and became one of the Web's great volunteer-built Studio Ghibli references long before Miyazaki was a household name in the English-speaking world.
Bernd Schneider's Ex Astris Scientia launched in 1998 and still runs as a hand-built, noncommercial Star Trek reference covering ships, technology, continuity, props, production details, and episode analysis.
Julie Bihn's old Rescue Rangers site preserves a 1999 sociology paper, surveys and fan-community material documenting what a small Internet fandom looked like before social media.
A surviving 1994 Ren & Stimpy Internet guide lists FTP servers, Gopher resources, sound files, GIF archives and fan material from the pre-Web fandom era.
FlyingDreams.org preserves a personal family domain built from photo albums, television fandom, travel pages, seasonal sites and separate hand-made corners instead of a social feed.
The Lexx Domain is an old-school fan site for the cult science-fiction series LEXX, preserving fan fiction and community material from a fandom that never needed to become mainstream to remain intensely alive online.
The memorial for the young online poster known as Plain and Simple Cronan preserves an early example of genuine friendship, grief and community formed through Internet discussion.
Apemania documents a group of makeup-effects artists and performers devoted to recreating Planet of the Apes prosthetics, costumes and characters with professional-level obsession.
Aaron Fuegi's old Cosmic Encounter archive preserved rules, printable components, expansion material and fan knowledge for a board game whose editions and supplements had become difficult to reconstruct.
Steven Grimm's Lurker's Guide assembled episode analysis, unanswered questions, production notes and J. Michael Straczynski's own online comments into one of the defining fan references of the early web.