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Ancient Web: Action Squad Documented the Hidden Twin Cities Before Urbex Became a Genre

Action Squad is an old-school Minneapolis and Saint Paul urban-exploration archive built from missions into tunnels, mines, abandoned industrial sites, utility spaces, and other pieces of infrastructure most people pass without seeing.

Ancient Web: NiagaraFrontier Documents the Summer America Turned Off a Waterfall

NiagaraFrontier.com preserves a detailed chronology of the 1969 dewatering of the American Falls, when engineers diverted the river, built a cofferdam, studied the rock face, recovered debris and bodies, and let visitors walk onto the exposed riverbed.

Ancient Web: Eclipse '98 Survived a Million-Hit Live Webcast

Eclipse '98 documented a 1998 Caribbean solar-eclipse webcast built from more than 700 files, a dozen servers, static HTML, CGI, FTP distribution, and a volunteer team learning web-scale failure in real time.

Ancient Web: McMurdoStation.com Kept a Running Construction Log for Antarctica's Biggest Base

Bill Spindler's McMurdoStation.com combines personal Antarctic photographs, station history, master-plan documents and years of construction updates for the U.S. Antarctic Program's McMurdo Station.