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Curtis Saxton’s Star Wars Technical Commentaries began in 1995 and applied scientific reasoning to spacecraft, planets, biology, measurements and other technical details of the Star Wars universe.
Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics is an early-Web physics tutorial that wraps real material on semiconductors, lasers and VCSELs in an intentionally ridiculous Britney Spears fan-site presentation.
Captured Lightning is Bert Hickman’s long-running high-voltage site covering Tesla coils, Lichtenberg figures, giant electrical arcs and a machine that electromagnetically shrinks coins in millionths of a second.
Fourmilab's Bending Spacetime in the Basement explains how a simple torsion balance can reveal the gravitational attraction between ordinary objects using the same basic principle behind Cavendish's classic experiment.
Clint Sprott's University of Wisconsin web server combines chaos theory, fractal galleries, DOS software, technical papers, physics lectures, MIDI files, amateur radio, and automatically generated strange attractors into one sprawling academic personal site.
Franco Maria Boschetto's Italian educational website has grown since 2001 into a multi-gigabyte collection spanning physics, literature, religion, alternate history, student work, science, travel, model building, and personal writing.
Project GREAT 2005 turned gravitational time dilation into a family road experiment by taking cesium atomic clocks roughly 4,400 feet higher for about 42 hours and measuring a gain of around 22 nanoseconds.
Georgia State University's HyperPhysics grew from HyperCard teaching material into a web-based concept map in 1998, linking thousands of compact physics explanations, diagrams, calculations, and subject pathways.
Bill Beaty's Science Hobbyist site has been online since 1994, mixing electronics, physics demonstrations, high-voltage experiments, misconceptions, unconventional research, and an old resource page built for nerds and misfits.
Tom Rogers' Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics turned explosions, impossible jumps, bad spaceflight, and Hollywood science into a long-running physics lesson disguised as a public complaint department.
Joe Wolfe's University of New South Wales sailing page uses Newton's laws, vectors, apparent wind, keel forces, and eighteen-foot skiffs to explain how sailboats move upwind and sometimes faster than the wind.
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.
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.
Vojtech Ullmann's AstroNuclPhysics site combines nuclear physics, radiation medicine, relativity, cosmology, electronics, philosophy, music and personal material in a sprawling hand-built reference system.