Ancient Web: The Old Calculator Museum
The Old Calculator Web Museum has been online since 1997, documenting early electronic calculators with hand-written HTML, working machines, manuals, advertisements, and memories from the people who built them.
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Ancient Web: Multiplayer SimCity on X11
Don Hopkins' surviving SimCity pages preserve the strange and excellent history of a networked Unix version of SimCity, complete with old screenshots, transcripts, documentation, and a demo mode that melted your city every five minutes.
Ancient Web: The First Website Still Explains the Web
CERN preserves the historic address of the first World Wide Web page, a tiny document that explained the Web itself when browsers, servers, HTML, and URLs were still new ideas.
Ancient Web: The IBM 1401 Restoration Site
The IBM 1401 restoration website documents two working 1960s mainframes with manuals, repair notes, oral histories, schematics, photographs, software, and years of volunteer work. It feels less like a homepage than a machine room rendered in HTML.
Ancient Web: Early Radio History Has Been Online Since 1996
Thomas H. White's United States Early Radio History site has been online since 1996, collecting original research and period material about radio, telegraphy, broadcasting, regulation, callsigns, and the strange years when wireless communication was still being invented.
Ancient Web: U-boat Archive Is Still Growing
U-boat Archive preserves documents and photographs from the World War II submarine war and was still adding German patrol records in 2026. It is the kind of specialist historical site that becomes more useful every year it refuses to disappear.
Ancient Web: TEXTFILES.COM Kept the BBS World Readable
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.
Ancient Web: Steve's Old Computer Museum
Steve's Old Computer Museum presents around 150 vintage computers with photographs, specifications, prices, advertisements, and short histories. The collection captures how wildly different personal computers looked before beige boxes won the argument.
Ancient Web: Phil's Old Radios Has Been Online Since 1995
Phil's Old Radios launched in 1995 and still documents antique radios and televisions through restoration articles, galleries, beginner guides, and practical repair information.
Ancient Web: Pagat Has Been Cataloging Card Games Since 1995
Pagat has documented traditional card and tile games from around the world since 1995, organizing rules by name, player count, mechanism, objective, equipment, and region.
Ancient Web: Sheldon Brown Built a Bicycle Encyclopedia by Hand
Sheldon Brown's sprawling personal site became an enduring technical reference for bicycle repair, drivetrains, wheels, fixed gear, old bikes, commuting, touring, and the culture around maintaining machines yourself.
Ancient Web: Professor Shoelace Built an Empire Around Knots
Ian Fieggen turned a personal website into an enormous specialist reference about shoelaces, knots, lacing methods, tiny Windows utilities, computer graphics, and whatever else he felt was worth publishing.
Ancient Web: Frogland Put an Entire Frog Obsession on the Web
Frogland's All About Frogs site mixed amphibian information, pet-care material, frog species pages, jokes, art, stories, games, classroom resources, and the kind of cheerful subject obsession that defined the personal web.
Ancient Web: Somebody Cataloged Every Descent Robot Like a Field Guide
Insectoid's Descent robot page turns the 1995 DOS game into a hand-built field guide, cataloging enemy size, weapons, threat level, first appearance, point value, drops, and practical survival advice.
Ancient Web: Ginjirotchi.ca Keeps Tamagotchi Care Logs on the Open Web
Ginjirotchi.ca is a long-running Tamagotchi fan site known for vintage-model information, photographs, care logs, journal-style records, and the personal documentation culture that grew around Bandai's virtual pets.
Ancient Web: Woodgears Teaches Beginner Woodworking Without Selling You a Workshop
Woodgears.ca approaches beginner woodworking with an unusually practical rule: start making things before buying a room full of expensive tools. The page is part tutorial, part anti-shopping guide, and very much a product of the independent technical web.
Ancient Web: Old Organizers Preserves the Pocket Computers Before Smartphones
Old Organizers Collection documents hundreds of monochrome electronic organizers and early PDAs—the pocket computers that handled contacts, calendars, notes and data before smartphones absorbed the category.
Ancient Web: The Old Robots Site Catalogs the Future We Used to Expect
The Old Robots Web Site catalogs educational, personal and toy robots from the mid-20th century through the early 2000s, including Omnibots, HERO robots, Armatron, RB5X, repair material, manuals and collector documentation.
Ancient Web: Molecule of the Month Has Been Publishing Chemistry Since 1996
Molecule of the Month has added a new chemistry article every month since January 1996, preserving nearly three decades of web-native science education across HTML, PDF, VRML, Chime, Java and modern JavaScript formats.
Ancient Web: The ASCII Art Dictionary Is a Zoo Made Out of Keyboard Characters
Andreas Freise's ASCII Art Dictionary preserves a huge hand-sorted collection of text pictures, artist credits, tutorials, animations, tools, and old-school terminal culture from the pre-image-heavy web.