Ancient Web: MIDI Shack Is a Fossil From the MIDI Web
Aaron Walz's MIDI Home preserves the late-1990s Web culture of original MIDI compositions, video-game music, tutorials, web rings and hand-built personal music pages.
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Ancient Web: Colin MacDonald Built a Scott Joplin MIDI Library by Hand
Colin D. MacDonald's ragtime site preserves a hand-built Scott Joplin MIDI catalog with composition dates, downloadable sequences, ZIP files, composer indexes, and late-1990s browser instructions.
Ancient Web: The Contemplator Built a Folk-Music Reference Before Streaming Ate the Songbook
Lesley Nelson's Contemplator site, established in 1996, combines folk-song lyrics, MIDI files, tune histories, ballad research, maritime material, and short historical essays into a durable pre-streaming music reference.
Ancient Web: C.Y.KONG MIDI-Fied a Pile of Analog Synths and Documented the Surgery
C.Y.KONG's synth pages document years of hands-on modifications to analog synthesizers and drum machines, including internal MIDI-to-CV conversions, filter control, CV and gate changes, rack conversions, and the occasional attack on a hated captive mains lead.
Ancient Web: VGMusic Still Hosts 1,900 Nintendo 64 MIDI Files
The Video Game Music Archive has been online since 1996, and its Nintendo 64 section alone preserves 1,900 fan-sequenced MIDI files with song titles, file sizes, sequencer credits, and comments.
Ancient Web: Mark Headrick Kept General MIDI Playing After Netscape Died
Mark Headrick's General MIDI page preserves hundreds of collected MIDI files alongside a running history of browser plug-ins, Windows MIDI plumbing, soundfonts and workarounds from the Netscape era onward.
Ancient Web: Learn Choral Music Turned MIDI Files Into a Choir Rehearsal Library
John's MIDI File Choral Music site built a huge practical rehearsal library around downloadable, voice-emphasized MIDI files for singers learning major choral works.