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Ancient Web: Jerry Oltion's Homepage Is Half Sci-Fi Bibliography, Half Telescope Workshop

Jerry Oltion's personal site mixes decades of science-fiction writing with homemade telescopes, astronomy projects, sundials, workshop notes, repaired Volkswagens, and the kind of deep hobby pages personal websites do best.

Ancient Web: Mike Jittlov's WizWorld Never Stopped Glowing

Mike Jittlov's official Wizard of Speed and Time site launched in the 1990s and still preserves QuickTime-era fan culture, production material, software, jokes, and aggressively personal Web design.

Ancient Web: Arkm's World Turns Navigation Into Storytelling

Arkm's World uses a tiny Neocities homepage as an atmospheric narrative space, proving that a website can make clicking through pages part of the story itself.

Ancient Web: Morel Madness Left a Trail Back to Larry 'Tree' Lonik

The old Morel Madness page dedicated to mushroom hunter Larry 'Tree' Lonik is difficult to retrieve now, but its surviving web trail still leads back to a genuine Great Lakes morel-hunting author and subculture.

Ancient Web: Action Grandma Is One Joke and One Page

Action Grandma is a tiny Neocities page built around one absurd fake-product joke, demonstrating how little infrastructure a personal website actually needs to justify existing.

Ancient Web: Tilde Club Has a Chicago Hot Dog Page and That Is the Point

Evelyn's Chicago Style Hot Dog Page on Tilde Club mixes food rules, local restaurant memories, closed-business notes, personal recommendations, and a working webring into one gloriously specific homepage.

Ancient Web: DataPacRat Built a Personal Information Archive

DataPacRat is a deliberately primitive personal archive built around a wonderfully direct idea: save interesting data first, worry about design later, and sort the pile into True, False, Opinion, and Art.

Ancient Web: Bass Drop's Club Rebuilt the Fun Part of the Personal Web

Bass Drop's Club began in 2024, but its guestbook, handmade games, crochet pages, status boxes, and unapologetically personal navigation revive the part of the web that platforms flattened out.

Ancient Web: Jan Sikusi's Wonderdream Gives Every Interest Its Own Room

Jan Sikusi's Neocities site mixes sword fighting, Toki Pona, chess, cuneiform, peculiar artifacts, a Shih Tzu, and homemade games without flattening any of them into a feed.

Ancient Web: Per-Bast Built an Egyptian Cat Goddess Shrine With IRC and XHTML

Per-Bast is a hand-built personal shrine to the Egyptian goddess Bast, wrapped in old-web navigation, guestbook culture, IRC, validation badges, and a proudly non-platform presentation.

Ancient Web: Android Arts Is a One-Person Internet of Games, Hardware, and Drawings

Android Arts is Arne Niklas Jansson's sprawling personal site of game redesigns, art tutorials, hardware projects, pixel work, electronics, tabletop ideas, and aggressively independent web philosophy.

Ancient Web: Does Anyone Remember Websites? Asked the Right Question in 2017

A 2017 TTTThis essay argued that search engines had become excellent at answering questions while making it harder to stumble into personal websites you never knew to search for.

Ancient Web: Paul Hardy Turned a Career in Cartography Into a Personal Reference Archive

Paul Hardy's personal site gathers decades of cartography papers, mapping work, traditional-music tunebooks and other specialist material that would otherwise be scattered across institutions and formats.

Ancient Web: Early Web Links Is Building a Card Catalog for the Personal Web

Early Web Links is a modern human-curated directory built to recover the wandering, category-browsing experience of the pre-platform web, with more than 12,000 sites cataloged.

Ancient Web: rcgldr Is What a Personal Homepage Used to Be

rcgldr.net is Jeff Reid's plain personal archive of radio-control gliders, cars, gymnastics, racing-game mods, savefiles, source code, and whatever else he decided belonged on his corner of the web.

Ancient Web: Mick Cooper Turned a Personal Homepage Into a Portsmouth Memory Bank

Mick Cooper's personal website wanders from Atari sequencing and MIDI files into family history, Portsmouth football, local music, old venues, and the kind of community memory that rarely fits neatly into a modern platform.

Ancient Web: The Jellybabies Page Gave Candy Personalities, Instruments, and Skateboarding Skills

Alex Churchill's old Jellybabies page is an almost perfect specimen of personal-web enthusiasm: candy rankings, invented personalities, terrible packet jokes, eating techniques, reader votes, and a secret-page puzzle.

Ancient Web: The Circle of the Dragon Grew From Angelfire Into a 25-Year Dragon Reference

Kylie 'drago' McCormick started The Circle of the Dragon on Angelfire in 2000. It grew from a small mythology project into a long-running reference covering dragon folklore, species, famous dragons, theories, art, and media.

Ancient Web: Doctor Nostromo Has Been Running the Same Hobby Site Since 1995

DrNostromo.com openly embraces its old-school design and has kept accumulating movie reviews, music, game material, Doom history, image galleries, and personal projects since 1995—with no ads, tracking, registration, or apparent desire to become a platform.

Ancient Web: Daring Armstrong Got an Entire Fake Hero Homepage on Something Awful

Something Awful's 2003 Daring Armstrong site is a preserved parody personal homepage for an aggressively self-impressed time-traveling American hero, complete with journals, comics, coworkers, trophies, photographs, and invented adventures.