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PiSymbol.com is a hand-built personal site full of fake horoscopes, Top Ten lists, TV trivia, random-number generators, Pi calculators, satire, household weather monitoring, and exactly the kind of unrelated material the old web happily kept under one roof.
Mike Reed's Flame Warriors turned online arguments into an illustrated field guide of recurring forum personalities, from ALLCAPS and Newbie to Necromancer, Troll, and Profundus Maximus.
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.
2meta's April Fools on the Net archive preserves online pranks from the 1990s onward, including fake acquisitions, bogus security advisories, joke RFCs, and other nonsense from before social media centralized the joke cycle.
Notepad.org is a deadpan monument to hand-coded HTML, presenting Windows Notepad as a world-class Web authoring tool with perfect standards support, tiny memory use, and compatibility with formats not yet invented.
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.
BagdadArkansas.org presents a suspiciously polished chamber-of-commerce guide to hotels, restaurants, memorials, a casino, and Crazy Andy's Cow Petting Zoo and Burger Store. The joke is that it almost plays the whole thing straight.
Guns & Sand turned one of Alan Wagner's absurd fake organizations into a functioning website, complete with slogans, membership language, gun imagery, sand enthusiasm, and years of confused internet reactions.
Something Awful's 2003 Daring Armstrong site is a preserved parody personal homepage for an aggressively self-impressed time-traveling American hero, complete with journals, comics, coworkers, trophies, photographs, and invented adventures.
Trafficcone.com turned traffic cones into mock natural-history specimens with invented Latin names, field-guide entries and altered artwork, creating one of the Web's more committed uselessly-useful hobby sites.
A humor page last modified in 2001 preserves engineer jokes, Unix-era one-liners, a Windows NT error message, BBS material and broken BOFH links as a tiny fossil of technical culture.
RinkWorks' Movie-A-Minute turned famous films into tiny joke scripts, building a durable early-web humor format around aggressive compression.
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.