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Ancient Web: TuxKart Is the Linux Racer That Became SuperTuxKart

The original TuxKart page preserves Steve and Oliver Baker's early open-source kart racer, a small Linux game from 2000 whose code and ideas later became the foundation of SuperTuxKart.

Ancient Web: Vedge.org Is a Personal Homepage With a Machine Shop Attached

Julien Nadeau Carriere's Vedge.org combines BSD and open-source software with machining charts, vacuum-tube work, metal casting, shop projects, astrophotography, vintage computers, and personal links.

Ancient Web: CloneKeen Kept Commander Keen Playable in Free Software

CloneKeen is a GPL reimplementation of Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons, written in C with SDL and ported far beyond the Windows and DOS machines where the original game lived.

Ancient Web: Windows Refund Day Tried to Return the OS Nobody Asked For

Marc Merlin's Windows Refund Day page preserves the February 15, 1999 campaign in which Linux and other open-source users tried to return unwanted bundled Windows licenses and force the refund language in Microsoft's own EULA to mean something.

Ancient Web: The 1998 Linux Tea Party Put Silicon Valley Linux in One Room

Marc Merlin’s surviving page for the November 1998 SVLUG Linux Tea Party preserves attendee names, companies, networking details, and the social texture of Silicon Valley Linux before it became ordinary infrastructure.

Ancient Web: XTeddy Kept a Unix Hacker's Personal Domain Useful

Thomas Adam's XTeddy is a long-running personal Unix and open-source domain that mixes technical identity, software work, and preservation mirrors without pretending to be a corporate publication.

Ancient Web: Matt Kane Built a Modern Site Like a 1990 HyperCard Stack

Matt Kane's modern homepage deliberately recreates a 1990 HyperCard stack with period-inspired icons and fonts while running on Astro with zero client-side JavaScript.

Ancient Web: Oleg Bartunov's University Directory Became Part of PostgreSQL History

Oleg Bartunov's old Sternberg Astronomical Institute web directory became a working home for PostgreSQL research and development around GiST, GIN, tsearch2, pg_trgm, hstore and other infrastructure that later became familiar parts of PostgreSQL.

Ancient Web: PcFreaK Preserves a Small Hacker Crew's Old-School Manifesto

The PcFreaK A/H/P/F Organization page survives as a compact old-school hacker-crew manifesto centered on network-security research, open-source contribution, technical exploration, and helping users move away from proprietary Microsoft software.

Ancient Web: Russ Nelson's Homepage Connects Packet Drivers, Open Source, and the First Quaker Site

Russ Nelson's personal homepage sits at the intersection of DOS networking, free software, the Open Source Initiative, and an early religious website he created in 1995.

Ancient Web: Futureware 2001 and the Open-Source Workshop From Vienna

Futureware 2001 preserves an Austrian software collective's late-1990s and early-2000s projects, including translation tools, Linux software, SourceForge migration and distributed rendering experiments.

Ancient Web: AI.Planet Built a Virtual Ecosystem in Delphi

AI.Planet was an open-source early-2000s artificial-life sandbox where users could build planets, alter weather and watch creatures learn inside a 3D world.

Ancient Web: PuTTY Kept Its 1990s Terminal Client Alive

PuTTY began as Simon Tatham's personal Windows terminal client in 1996 and still ships from a website that looks reassuringly close to the era that produced it.