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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.
GifCities mines millions of animated GIFs from the Internet Archive's GeoCities collection and lets you search the visual debris of personal websites by filename, directory text, and newer semantic tools.
The World of Mime Theatre has been online since 1996, preserving performers, schools, books, festivals, organizations, encyclopedia entries, and a surprisingly deep record of an art form that rarely gets this kind of web documentation.
TEXTFILES.COM preserves a giant collection of the animated Under Construction graphics that once warned visitors a personal web page was unfinished, changing, and very much alive.