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Ancient Web: Modulated Light DX Sent Audio 104 Miles Through the Air

Chris Long and Mike Groth's Modulated Light DX pages preserve decades of amateur optical communication experiments, including a 167-kilometer audio-modulated light link across Tasmania.

Ancient Web: Polarization.com Built a Science Museum Around Invisible Light

Polarization.com turns polarized light into an old-school science museum covering rainbows, bees, insects, Viking sunstones, Edwin Land, sunglasses, displays, optics history, and experiments.

Ancient Web: A 1996 Physics FAQ Explained Whether Humans Can See a Single Photon

Philip Gibbs's 1996 Physics FAQ page compresses a subtle question about rods, dark adaptation and photon detection into the kind of compact scientific explanation the early Web did exceptionally well.