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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.