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: XVR27 Built a Weird Al Database Before Fandom Had One Place to Live
XVR27's Weird Al Yankovic homepage survives as a sprawling fan-built reference full of lyrics, subject indexes, transcripts, odd recordings, and links that later reference works still cite.
Ancient Web: Silkqin Built a Personal Library Around One Ancient Instrument
John Thompson's Silkqin site has spent decades collecting guqin history, tablature, recordings, translations, performance notes, silk-string research, art, poetry, and reconstruction work around the ancient Chinese zither.
Ancient Web: Masters of Melody Preserved the BBC Orchestras Radio Forgot
Brian Reynolds built Masters of Melody to document British radio studio orchestras, bands, ensembles and broadcasts that largely vanished from mainstream memory.
Ancient Web: Perfect Sound Forever Was Calling Out Bad Songs in 1997
Perfect Sound Forever, an independent online music magazine dating to 1993, published a wonderfully Web-native collection of arguments about bad songs in February 1997.
Ancient Web: Peter Yost Put Music, Organs, Photography, and Calligraphy Under One Roof
Peter Yost's personal site keeps sacred and secular music, photography, pipe-organ building, calligraphy, and creative work together instead of splitting a person into platform-shaped profiles.
Ancient Web: Akrep Nalan's 2002 Website Became a Digital Memorial
AkrepNalan.com began as a Turkish singer's personal web presence in 2002 and now survives as a strangely durable piece of pop-culture history after her death in 2022.
Ancient Web: AssociativeMusic.com Tried to Turn Found Noise Into a Musical Philosophy
AssociativeMusic.com documented producer Hot Sugar's idea of building music from emotionally loaded found sounds, environmental recordings, and noises that ordinary recording practice would ignore.
Ancient Web: Drop-D Magazine Froze Vancouver's 1998 Music Scene in HTML
Drop-D Magazine's surviving final issue preserves Vancouver concert listings, club names, local bands, reviews, volunteer photography, and the wonderfully uneven machinery of an independent online music magazine in 1998.
Ancient Web: LunarSight Kept a Multimedia Mad Science Lab Online Since 1996
LunarSight's Papercut Suicide grew out of the 1990s personal Web as a home for digital art, music synthesis, fractals, brainwave experiments, Half-Life writing, and hand-edited HTML that never needed to become a platform.
Ancient Web: Side Blown Technologies Still Hand-Builds Bamboo Flutes on a Plain HTML Site
David Chu's Side Blown Technologies remains a compact specialist site about handmade bamboo flutes, wooden and carbon-fiber headjoints, flute overhaul, tuning, finger-hole layout, and practical instrument making.
Ancient Web: IORR Took a 1980 Rolling Stones Fan Club Online in 1996
Bjørnulf Vik's It's Only Rock'n Roll began as a Norwegian Rolling Stones fan club in 1980, moved onto the Web in 1996, and still preserves tour reports, forums, news and decades of fan documentation.
Ancient Web: TagYerit Built a Rabbit-Guitar Band Site and Toilet Paper Museum
TagYerit is a surviving example of the personal-band website as creative universe: four CDs, more than 100 handmade pages, a rabbit guitar, pumpkins, automata and an entire toilet-paper museum.
Ancient Web: CivilWarPoetry.org Preserves the Music and Verse of the Civil War
CivilWarPoetry.org is a large hand-built collection of Union and Confederate poems, songs, lyrics, MIDI files, indexes, and historical notes from the American Civil War era.